A sentence of 3 years' imprisonment (on a 5-year maximum) for recklessly causing injury by pushing a victim's head into boiling water, in the context of ongoing family violence and breach of intervention orders, is within range even where the offender has significant intellectual disability (IQ 67), a traumatic background, youth, and has pleaded guilty. An attempt by a family violence perpetrator to pervert the course of justice by threatening to withhold a stillborn child's ashes and distribute intimate images to coerce withdrawal of complaints warrants a sentence of 2 years (on a 25-year maximum) with significant cumulation, though care must be taken not to double-punish for the underlying offending.
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