Where a juvenile offender's admissions to police result in additional charges for offences not previously known to authorities, the sentencing court must give recognition to those admissions in accordance with the AB v The Queen principle, and failure to do so may render the sentence manifestly excessive when assessed against the s 150(2)(e) requirement to impose the shortest appropriate period of detention. The recording of convictions for persistent juvenile sexual offending against a child is not precluded by the considerations in s 184 of the Youth Justice Act 1992 (Qld), even where the offender is young and has no prior convictions.
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