Adults who use the internet to procure children for sexual activity and who arrange and attempt to attend a physical meeting for that purpose will ordinarily receive immediate imprisonment under s 204B(2)(b) of the Criminal Code (WA), even where the offender has significant intellectual handicap and psychological difficulties. Transmission of sexually explicit webcam material, telephone contact, and arrangement of a physical meeting are aggravating factors placing offending toward the upper end of the range of seriousness.
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