A sentence of five years imprisonment with parole eligibility after 16 months is within the appropriate range for grievous bodily harm inflicted by a parent upon an infant through repeated digital anal penetration over a 14-month period, even where the offender has intellectual and psychiatric deficits that impair judgment but do not negate deliberateness. The reduction by one-third of the non-release period for a guilty plea is a useful practice but not mandatory; the totality of the sentence must be considered.
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