For multiple violent rapes by a mature man upon a 12-year-old girl over approximately nine months amounting to maintaining a sexual relationship, even allowing for pleas of guilty, imprisonment of the order of 10 to 12 years is warranted. The Court of Appeal on a Crown sentence appeal should not be unduly limited by the circumstance of the Crown Prosecutor's seriously wrong submission on sentence to the sentencing judge.
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