Without additional aggravating features, digital rape may generally be seen as somewhat less grave than penile rape for sentencing purposes, though the repetitive nature of serial offending may minimise this distinction. A sentencing judge must make adequate allowance for the aggregation of mitigating features including guilty pleas, cooperation, absence of prior history, and rehabilitation prospects, even in cases of serious serial sexual offending. For serial digital rape involving 11 victims over 27 months with substantial mitigation, 16 years imprisonment was the appropriate sentence rather than 25 years.
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