A total effective sentence of 11 years' imprisonment for 16 child sex offences against four complainants (including representative offences of penile-vaginal penetration, digital-vaginal penetration and attempted penile-anal penetration of children aged 7-12) does not infringe the totality principle, notwithstanding fast-track guilty pleas, where the offender was the stepfather/stepbrother of the victims, had no remorse, satisfied diagnostic criteria for paedophilia, and the dominant sentencing considerations were punishment, deterrence and protection of vulnerable children.
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