Even exceptionally compelling subjective circumstances — including refugee status, survival of a massacre, mild intellectual disability, and social isolation — do not render sentences manifestly excessive where the offences involve indecent assault of a highly vulnerable victim with significant intrusion, committed while the offender was on conditional liberty. The objective seriousness of the offences must be adequately reflected in the sentence.
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