It was sometime between 1975 and 1977 when a now 61-year-old man, who was about 19 at the time, remembers grabbing the breasts of a younger teenager without her consent.
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They and another girl had all been walking at Jubilee Falls in the Warby Range just outside Wangaratta, when he says the teenager slipped and fell backwards into him - so he "had a feel up of her" above her clothing.
This behaviour was confessed to police two years ago after a complaint was made and the man faced Wangaratta Magistrates Court this week.
But he was acquitted of the alleged crime because the specific charge laid by police - indecent assault on a child under 16 - could not be proven.
Prosecutors had relied on the man's evidence that he was about 19 and she "would have been 15 or thereabouts", but had no other evidence she was actually under 16.
They had not charged the man with a separate offences on someone who was older than 16 and it was too late to change that during the court hearing.
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The woman who made the complaint, who could not give evidence because of a cognitive impairment, was the sister of the woman who would later go on to become the now 61-year-old man's wife.
Prosecutors relied on his admissions in a interview with Sergeant Romina McEwan, which was played to the court.
"I'm assuming she was there and my hands were in the right place, or the wrong place," he said.
"It's not something that I'm proud of today. I can't change that."
He told the police he could not remember her reaction.
"What about morally, right or wrong - do you have any feeling about that?" Sergeant McEwan said in the interview.
"Don't remember," he said.
When the two female companions were out of his sight at Jubilee Falls, the man then masturbated.
He has since confessed the incident to his family and church.
"If she had come to me, chances are I would have said 'sorry that happened', but that never occurred," he told police.
"I'm still accountable that I touched her breasts."
Magistrate Peter Dunn was initially critical of the man's actions.
"You can't just go around grabbing anyone on the breasts," he said.
"Even in the 1970s."
But he agreed with the argument from the man's defence lawyer that prosecutors had not proved the girl was under 16 years old at the time, saying he would not find the man guilty based on "guesses".
The charge was dismissed, and the man smiled and shook the hands of Sergeant McEwan and his lawyer before leaving the court.
