A probation order cannot operate concurrently with a sentence of imprisonment served by way of an intensive correction order under the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld), because the intensive correction order remains legally a sentence of imprisonment. The principle that those who indecently deal with children should ordinarily be sent to gaol is not displaced by the offender's own history of childhood sexual abuse, though such history is a relevant mitigating factor.
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