A sentence requiring a youthful first offender to serve seven months of a three-year sentence (less than 20%) for sustained online harassment and blackmail to obtain child pornography from a teenage victim was not manifestly excessive. Section 17A(1) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) establishes only that imprisonment is a penalty of last resort and does not support a broader 'parsimony' principle requiring the shortest possible period of actual custody.
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