An 11-year sentence with a serious violent offence declaration is within the appropriate range for maintaining a sexual relationship with a child under 16 involving rape, where the offending spans approximately 10 years from age five to 15, involves multiple victims, and the offender shows no remorse. A complainant's recantation of trial evidence by affidavit carries no weight where the complainant repudiates the recanting affidavit at the appeal hearing and confirms the original evidence was true.
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