Severe extra-curial punishment causing permanent disability and destruction of livelihood, combined with offending at the lower end of the range, plea of guilty to an ex officio indictment, and absence of criminal history, can constitute exceptional circumstances warranting service of a sentence for indecent dealing with a child by way of intensive correction order rather than actual custody. Without the extra-curial punishment, the indicative sentence for this level of offending with these mitigating factors would have been approximately nine months imprisonment with release after three months.
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