A combined discount exceeding 50% for pleas of guilty and assistance to authorities should be reserved for exceptional cases, and a discount of 65% was excessive even where assistance was evaluated as 'medium to high' and included information leading to closure of a child sex tourism website. A sentencing judge should be loath to determine that a case falls into the worst category where the Crown has not submitted to that effect. Sexual intercourse offences involving fellatio with a child under 10, in the absence of organised criminal activity, a history of abuse, threats, coercion, force, violence, or penile/anal penetration, fell considerably below the middle of the range of objective seriousness.
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