Key legal question
Whether the cantonal courts violated the presumption of innocence and procedural rights by relying on testimony, including time-barred abuse allegations by sisters.
Extracted holding
No. The lower courts could assess the sisters' statements together with the other evidence; prescription did not bar their evidentiary use.
Extracted reasoning
The federal court held that the conviction rested primarily on the victim's and witnesses' declarations, and that the prescribed events of the sisters could still corroborate the broader evidentiary picture and the fear they still felt.