Where facts reveal gross moral culpability, sentencing judges should be wary of attaching too much weight to considerations of self-punishment, and genuine remorse and self-punishment do not compensate for or balance out gross moral culpability. Public humiliation and vilification is relevant as a mitigating factor only where it reaches such proportion as to have a physical or psychological effect on the offender, and the community response must be understood in context, including whether it was provoked by the offender's own refusal to accept responsibility.
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