The sentencing range for maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship involving a natural father and child victim, with mitigating features including early guilty plea, cooperation with authorities, and psychological impairment, may properly fall below 10 years imprisonment. Where the prosecution at the sentencing hearing submits a particular sentencing range and does not seek a serious violent offence declaration, the Crown will not ordinarily be permitted on appeal to seek a more severe sentence absent exceptional circumstances.
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