A sentence of three years' imprisonment with no recommendation for early parole eligibility is within range for a single count of indecent treatment of a child under 12 involving touching of the vagina on five occasions, where the offender has a prior history of similar offending, notwithstanding a guilty plea. The conduct was characterised as within the lower end of the range of this type of offending, with the sentencing range identified as two to three years' imprisonment.
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