Section 10(3)(ba) of the Criminal Law (Sentencing) Act 1988 (SA) applies where an offender's lack of prior convictions assisted them to obtain employment that provided access to the child victim, even where the offender did not directly use their good character to groom the victim. The word 'assistance' is unqualified and means 'help'; it encompasses indirect assistance through obtaining a position of trust. An appellate court will not go behind a concession made by counsel at first instance on a question of fact within the appellant's sphere of knowledge merely because different counsel suggests the concession was erroneous.
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