Psycho-sexual dysfunction is not ordinarily to be regarded as mitigating a sexual offender's moral culpability, and even where it may do so, the need for community protection will not permit much reduction in sentence. An IQ of 86, placing an offender outside the borderline intellectually disabled category, warrants only very limited reduction in moral culpability. Repeated sexual offending against the same victim over a protracted period calls for a large measure of cumulation rather than concurrency.
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