Sentences for child pornography offences involving large volumes of material across multiple CETS categories will ordinarily require full-time custodial sentences; an Intensive Correction Order is not appropriate for serious offending of this kind. Sentencing judges must assess objective seriousness, address the paramount considerations of general deterrence and denunciation, and give principled consideration to concurrency and accumulation when sentencing for both Commonwealth accessing and State possession offences. Some measure of accumulation is appropriate between Commonwealth and State child pornography offences because they address different vices.
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