A respondent's repeated refusal to participate in the intensive sex offender treatment programme, combined with denial of offending and unaddressed alcohol dependence, will weigh heavily against a supervision order in favour of indefinite detention under s 17(1)(a) of the Dangerous Sexual Offenders Act 2006 (WA). The court will not accept a respondent's self-reported low libido where the respondent is a demonstrated unreliable reporter.
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