A sentencing judge must differentiate between offences committed as a principal in the first degree and those committed as an aider and abetter when imposing individual sentences for aggravated sexual assault under s 61J, unless the evidence establishes the aider and abetter played a dominant role. Where there is no proper basis for dealing with a juvenile offender in the Children's Court, the sentencing judge is not required to take into account what sentence might have been imposed in that jurisdiction.
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