For serial paedophile offenders convicted of maintaining sexual relationships with children and multiple counts of indecent dealing (without sodomy), where the offender has an extensive criminal history of similar offending, the appropriate sentencing range is eight to ten years imprisonment. A sentence at the lower end of a conceded range cannot be characterised as manifestly inadequate on an Attorney-General's appeal.
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