Andrews, Judge.
Williamson was tried and convicted of child molestation and aggravated child molestation. Count 1 of the indictment charged Williamson with aggravated child molestation in that he forced the victim to perform an act of sodomy on him on July 3, 1990; and the second count of the indictment charged Williamson with child molestation in that between January 1, 1990 and July 4, 1990, he took improper and indecent liberties with the victim in order to satisfy his sexual desires.
Evidence at trial was that on July 3, 1990, Williamson was in the bedroom watching television with the mother of the four-year-old victim, with whom he shared the house. The doorbell rang and the victim’s mother left the bedroom to talk to an insurance man. When she returned to the bedroom, Williamson was seated on the edge of the bed and the victim was on the floor between his legs. Williamson looked startled and the mother of the victim noticed that he was sexually aroused. When her mother asked her what was wrong, the victim cried but did not offer an explanation. Several days later the child reported to her 16-year-old cousin that Williamson had forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The victim was examined by a pediatrician, who testified at trial. She testified that the victim had told her that Williamson had forced her to perform oral sex upon him and had put his hand in her panties and touched her bottom and put his penis on her shoulder. The results of the medical examination were consistent with the child’s report and were also consistent with the victim having been forced to have intercourse.
At trial, the clinical social worker to whom the victim was referred testified. She stated that the victim had told her that Williamson forced her to have oral sex and that the child displayed manifestations of the child abuse accommodation syndrome, including dreams involving her father and bed wetting.
The victim’s cousin, to whom the victim first related the molestation, testified. He stated that the victim related that Williamson forced her to perform oral sex and that Williamson tried to stick his penis in her bottom.
The investigating detective testified that the victim told him that Williamson touched her private parts with his penis and forced her to perform oral sex. The victim’s mother testified that the victim told [566]*566her that Williamson forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The court’s narrative for the record, outside the presence of the jury, was that the victim demonstrated with the anatomically correct dolls that Williamson had forced her to perform oral sex and that he placed his penis in the area of her private parts.
The trial court denied Williamson’s motion for a new trial and he appeals.
1. In his first enumeration, Williamson claims that the trial court violated his constitutional right to be present at all stages of the proceedings against him when it allowed his attorney to waive his presence at voir dire without first ascertaining on the record whether or not he had in fact knowingly waived this right.
An accused has the right to be present during jury selection. Allen v. State, 199 Ga. App. 365 (405 SE2d 94) (1991); Fictum v. State, 188 Ga. App. 348 (373 SE2d 54) (1988). However, the right may be waived in defendant’s presence or with his acquiescence.
In the instant case, the record supports the trial court’s finding that there was no error. Williamson’s counsel filed a motion for individual voir dire and for sequestration of jurors during voir dire. When the case was called to trial, there was a bench conference during which counsel waived defendant’s presence during jury selection. Williamson was present at the start of the trial. His counsel reiterated this waiver in defendant’s presence in open court; the transcript of the proceedings contains this waiver. Thereafter, the trial court granted defendant’s motion for individual voir dire and the court and both parties’ counsel conducted voir dire in the jury room individually, while Williamson remained in the courtroom.
Williamson argues now that there is nothing in the record to indicate that he agreed to this waiver. At the hearing on the motion for a new trial, Williamson testified that he was not informed of his right to be present at voir dire and that he had not agreed to the waiver. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that he was present in the courtroom when defense counsel announced that he would waive his right to be present for voir dire. Williamson’s trial counsel testified at the hearing on the motion for new trial and stated that although he could not specifically recall the details of this case, his normal practice would have been to send Williamson a copy of the motion for individual voir dire and to explain the waiver to him.
Because the trial court did not directly address Williamson on the record, the question presented here, as in Allen, supra, is whether Williamson subsequently acquiesced to his attorney’s waiver of his presence at jury selection. We find that the record supports the trial court’s conclusion that Williamson was present for and acquiesced in the waiver. Accordingly “[b]ecause evidence was presented which would support a finding that defendant acquiesced to his attorney’s [567]*567choosing a jury in his absence, the denial of the motion for new trial should not be disturbed. [Cit.]” Allen, supra at 368.
2. Secondly, Williamson argues that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of his federal and state constitutional rights. Schumacher was appointed as Williamson’s attorney in March 1991. Williamson’s attorney at the time the case was originally called to trial in March 1991 was removed by the trial court because he was experiencing hearing problems. The case was called for trial again with Schumacher representing Williamson in June 1991.
A trial court’s finding that a defendant has not been denied effective assistance of trial counsel will be affirmed unless clearly erroneous. Warren v. State, 197 Ga. App. 23 (1) (397 SE2d 484) (1990). Here, Williamson must overcome the strong presumption that defense counsel’s conduct falls within the broad range of reasonable professional conduct. Snyder v. State, 201 Ga. App. 66, 69 (8) (410 SE2d 173) (1991). “[T]o establish ineffective assistance of counsel, [a defendant] must show that his counsel’s performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced his defense. [Cits.]” Gross v. State, 262 Ga. 232, 233 (1) (416 SE2d 284) (1992). The test is whether there is a reasonable probability the jury would have reached a different verdict, absent the error of counsel. Gross, supra at 233-234 (1). Here, Williamson has not established that he was denied reasonably effective assistance of counsel.
Williamson argues that his second attorney, Schumacher, was ineffective in the following ways.
(a) First, Williamson claims that Schumacher was ineffective in that he waived his right to be present at jury selection without first discussing such waiver. For the reasons outlined in Division 1 above, this enumeration is without merit. Further, even if the waiver fell below the standard of effective representation, such deficiency would not reasonably be likely to have produced a different outcome in the trial. See Gross, supra.
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Andrews, Judge.
Williamson was tried and convicted of child molestation and aggravated child molestation. Count 1 of the indictment charged Williamson with aggravated child molestation in that he forced the victim to perform an act of sodomy on him on July 3, 1990; and the second count of the indictment charged Williamson with child molestation in that between January 1, 1990 and July 4, 1990, he took improper and indecent liberties with the victim in order to satisfy his sexual desires.
Evidence at trial was that on July 3, 1990, Williamson was in the bedroom watching television with the mother of the four-year-old victim, with whom he shared the house. The doorbell rang and the victim’s mother left the bedroom to talk to an insurance man. When she returned to the bedroom, Williamson was seated on the edge of the bed and the victim was on the floor between his legs. Williamson looked startled and the mother of the victim noticed that he was sexually aroused. When her mother asked her what was wrong, the victim cried but did not offer an explanation. Several days later the child reported to her 16-year-old cousin that Williamson had forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The victim was examined by a pediatrician, who testified at trial. She testified that the victim had told her that Williamson had forced her to perform oral sex upon him and had put his hand in her panties and touched her bottom and put his penis on her shoulder. The results of the medical examination were consistent with the child’s report and were also consistent with the victim having been forced to have intercourse.
At trial, the clinical social worker to whom the victim was referred testified. She stated that the victim had told her that Williamson forced her to have oral sex and that the child displayed manifestations of the child abuse accommodation syndrome, including dreams involving her father and bed wetting.
The victim’s cousin, to whom the victim first related the molestation, testified. He stated that the victim related that Williamson forced her to perform oral sex and that Williamson tried to stick his penis in her bottom.
The investigating detective testified that the victim told him that Williamson touched her private parts with his penis and forced her to perform oral sex. The victim’s mother testified that the victim told [566]*566her that Williamson forced her to perform oral sex on him.
The court’s narrative for the record, outside the presence of the jury, was that the victim demonstrated with the anatomically correct dolls that Williamson had forced her to perform oral sex and that he placed his penis in the area of her private parts.
The trial court denied Williamson’s motion for a new trial and he appeals.
1. In his first enumeration, Williamson claims that the trial court violated his constitutional right to be present at all stages of the proceedings against him when it allowed his attorney to waive his presence at voir dire without first ascertaining on the record whether or not he had in fact knowingly waived this right.
An accused has the right to be present during jury selection. Allen v. State, 199 Ga. App. 365 (405 SE2d 94) (1991); Fictum v. State, 188 Ga. App. 348 (373 SE2d 54) (1988). However, the right may be waived in defendant’s presence or with his acquiescence.
In the instant case, the record supports the trial court’s finding that there was no error. Williamson’s counsel filed a motion for individual voir dire and for sequestration of jurors during voir dire. When the case was called to trial, there was a bench conference during which counsel waived defendant’s presence during jury selection. Williamson was present at the start of the trial. His counsel reiterated this waiver in defendant’s presence in open court; the transcript of the proceedings contains this waiver. Thereafter, the trial court granted defendant’s motion for individual voir dire and the court and both parties’ counsel conducted voir dire in the jury room individually, while Williamson remained in the courtroom.
Williamson argues now that there is nothing in the record to indicate that he agreed to this waiver. At the hearing on the motion for a new trial, Williamson testified that he was not informed of his right to be present at voir dire and that he had not agreed to the waiver. Nevertheless, he acknowledged that he was present in the courtroom when defense counsel announced that he would waive his right to be present for voir dire. Williamson’s trial counsel testified at the hearing on the motion for new trial and stated that although he could not specifically recall the details of this case, his normal practice would have been to send Williamson a copy of the motion for individual voir dire and to explain the waiver to him.
Because the trial court did not directly address Williamson on the record, the question presented here, as in Allen, supra, is whether Williamson subsequently acquiesced to his attorney’s waiver of his presence at jury selection. We find that the record supports the trial court’s conclusion that Williamson was present for and acquiesced in the waiver. Accordingly “[b]ecause evidence was presented which would support a finding that defendant acquiesced to his attorney’s [567]*567choosing a jury in his absence, the denial of the motion for new trial should not be disturbed. [Cit.]” Allen, supra at 368.
2. Secondly, Williamson argues that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of his federal and state constitutional rights. Schumacher was appointed as Williamson’s attorney in March 1991. Williamson’s attorney at the time the case was originally called to trial in March 1991 was removed by the trial court because he was experiencing hearing problems. The case was called for trial again with Schumacher representing Williamson in June 1991.
A trial court’s finding that a defendant has not been denied effective assistance of trial counsel will be affirmed unless clearly erroneous. Warren v. State, 197 Ga. App. 23 (1) (397 SE2d 484) (1990). Here, Williamson must overcome the strong presumption that defense counsel’s conduct falls within the broad range of reasonable professional conduct. Snyder v. State, 201 Ga. App. 66, 69 (8) (410 SE2d 173) (1991). “[T]o establish ineffective assistance of counsel, [a defendant] must show that his counsel’s performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced his defense. [Cits.]” Gross v. State, 262 Ga. 232, 233 (1) (416 SE2d 284) (1992). The test is whether there is a reasonable probability the jury would have reached a different verdict, absent the error of counsel. Gross, supra at 233-234 (1). Here, Williamson has not established that he was denied reasonably effective assistance of counsel.
Williamson argues that his second attorney, Schumacher, was ineffective in the following ways.
(a) First, Williamson claims that Schumacher was ineffective in that he waived his right to be present at jury selection without first discussing such waiver. For the reasons outlined in Division 1 above, this enumeration is without merit. Further, even if the waiver fell below the standard of effective representation, such deficiency would not reasonably be likely to have produced a different outcome in the trial. See Gross, supra.
(b) Williamson claims that Schumacher failed to cross-examine a key witness for the State, the victim’s cousin, to whom she first reported the molestation. Williamson also argues that Schumacher failed to adequately prepare for the cross-examination of the five-year-old victim. At the hearing on the motion for new trial, Schumacher testified that his decision not to cross-examine Ross was a tactical decision. With regard to the five-year-old victim, Schumacher testified that he had previously tried five child molestation cases and that in specific preparation for this case he read treatises regarding cross-examining a child victim. Although Schumacher testified that in hindsight his cross-examination would have been different, his performance in this manner was not deficient. See Gross, supra; Jacobson v. State, 201 Ga. App. 749 (5) (412 SE2d 859) (1991).
[568]*568(c) Williamson argues that Schumacher failed to demand a reliability ruling for those witnesses who were called to testify about hearsay statements made by the victim and that this failure constituted ineffective assistance. This contention is without merit.
First, the transcript reveals that Williamson’s contention is based on a somewhat inaccurate factual predicate in that the record reveals that Schumacher did demand a reliability ruling regarding the pediatrician’s repetition of the victim’s statement. Also, Schumacher filed a motion to invoke the procedures of Sosebee v. State, 257 Ga. 298 (357 SE2d 562) (1987), and when the motion was heard the State indicated that the victim would testify.
“Examination of the transcript of the . . . trial establishes a sufficient showing of indicia of reliability, within the meaning of OCGA § 24-3-16, as to all out-of-court statements made by the victim, which were testified to by witnesses in the presence of the jury.” Gregg v. State, 201 Ga. App. 238, 241 (3) (b) (411 SE2d 65) (1991). Accordingly, we find no deficiency in this respect in defense counsel’s performance. Moreover, even if the failure to request a reliability ruling on each of the statements fell below the standard of effective representation, such deficiency would not reasonably be likely to have produced a different outcome in the trial. See Gross, supra; see also Gregg, supra.
(d) Williamson argues that Schumacher failed to move for a directed verdict of acquittal as to Count 2 of the indictment and that he failed to move for a mistrial after the State argued in closing that Williamson had molested the victim on dates other than July 3. A review of the transcript reveals that there was evidence to support the State’s claims that molestation had occurred on dates other than July 3. Schumacher testified at the motion for new trial that his decision not to move for a directed verdict of acquittal was a strategical decision based on the fact that there was evidence in the record to prevent the granting of such a motion. We do not find counsel’s performance in this regard deficient.
(e) Williamson claims that Schumacher failed to prepare him for trial. At the hearing on the motion for new trial, Schumacher testified that he met with Williamson twice prior to trial and spoke with him several times on the telephone, as well as consulting with him during trial. Schumacher also stated that he consulted with Williamson’s previous attorney. Contrary to Williamson’s argument, we do not find counsel’s performance in this regard deficient and Williamson’s claims are without merit.
(f) Williamson argues that Schumacher failed to present an alibi defense. The defense was that Williamson was in jail for a traffic violation during the period from February 7, 1990 to May 22, 1990 and thus, he argues, was incapable of the acts charged in the indictment [569]*569which were based on his alleged actions between January 1, 1990 and July 4, 1990. Schumacher testified at the hearing that his decision not to present evidence on this point was a tactical one. We find no deficiency in Schumacher’s failure to present evidence regarding this imperfect alibi defense and Williamson’s claims in this regard are without merit.
Secondly, Williamson claims that Schumacher failed to present evidence that the victim was “fooling around” with other children. Again, we find no deficiency in counsel’s failure to present this defense and Williamson’s claims in this regard are without merit.
(g) Williamson claims that counsel’s failure to request a mistrial after a social worker gave an opinion regarding the child abuse accommodation syndrome constituted ineffective assistance. The testimony was elicited in response to the State’s question as to whether the victim displayed typical symptoms of child abuse accommodation syndrome. The social worker responded that “in my clinical judgment, what she said had occurred had occurred and she did display manifestations of that result, yes.”
Assuming, arguendo, that the social worker’s statement was unambiguous and thus was testimony regarding the child’s credibility and the ultimate issue in the case, we recognize that the witness’ statement was offensive to the ruling of Allison v. State, 256 Ga. 851 (353 SE2d 805) (1987); Smith v. State, 259 Ga. 135 (2) (377 SE2d 158) (1989); and State v. Oliver, 188 Ga. App. 47 (372 SE2d 256) (1988). Nonetheless, “it cannot be said to raise a reasonable probability that but for such error, the verdict would have been different. [Cits.] This is particularly so in view of the fact that the record shows the child’s statements were reasonably consistent, thus supporting the verdict found by the jury with or without this social worker’s opinion.” Stamey v. State, 194 Ga. App. 305, 306 (1) (a) (390 SE2d 409) (1990). Although, in this case, unlike in Stamey, the social worker did not exhaustively describe the criteria for determining the victim’s credibility, her statement was not a significant addition to her main testimony. Moreover, she was cross-examined thoroughly on the subject of child abuse accommodation syndrome and she recanted on her earlier testimony by stating: “What I’m aware of is that if I am not present, I cannot swear that anything did or did not take place. What I have to deal with are the symptoms that are presented to me as a result of what’s been reported. . . .” Accordingly, we conclude that defense counsel’s performance in this matter was not so deficient that there can be shown with a reasonable probability that the results of the proceedings would have been different had he performed otherwise.
3. Finally, Williamson contends that there was insufficient evidence to support his convictions for child molestation and aggravated [570]*570child molestation and that the trial court erred in refusing his motion for a new trial. We find that the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979).
Judgment affirmed. Pope, C. J., McMurray, P. J., Birdsong, P. J., Carley, P. J., Johnson and Blackburn, JJ., concur. Beasley and Cooper, JJ., dissent.