The case confirms that breach of trust and the circumstance of aggravation that a victim was 'under the authority' of an offender under s 66A(2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) are separate and overlapping concepts, and a sentencing judge may treat breach of trust as part of the overall mix of circumstances informing objective seriousness without separately quantifying the weight given to each. The case also reiterates that the weight to be ascribed to particular sentencing factors is a matter for the sentencing judge and appellate intervention for weighting errors will be rare.
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