A sentencing judge must undertake an evaluative assessment of the objective seriousness of each offence, and while it is not necessary to assign a specific label or position within a range, the sentencing remarks must allow the objective seriousness to be clearly understood. Where aggravating factors such as breach of trust and vulnerability apply equally to all counts, they do not implicitly situate the objective seriousness of individual counts in a way that can be clearly understood without further analysis. Care must be taken to avoid double-counting where abuse of trust derives from the same facts as the element that the victim was under the offender's authority, and where vulnerability is assessed by reference to the age of a child when age is already an element of the offence.
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