A head sentence of 17 years imprisonment is within the sentencing discretion for progressive sexual offending against six children over approximately 17 years involving penile rape from very young ages, breach of parental trust, and emotional manipulation, even where the offender enters a very late guilty plea and there is an absence of explicit physical violence during the offences. Such a case ranks in the worst category of the offence of maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child.
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