Where an offender's frank admissions to police lead to charges for offences that would not otherwise have been known, and the offender pleads guilty to an ex officio indictment, a discount of approximately one-third from the after-trial sentence is appropriate, rather than a lesser discount. For multiple rapes of a six-year-old child by a step-parent over an eight-month period, a starting point of 12 years imprisonment after trial is within range, with serious violent offence declarations warranted on the rape counts.
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