Where the victim of a sexual intercourse offence was asleep at the time of the offending, the absence of threats, violence, or physical injury does not reduce objective seriousness because those factors are the product of the victim's unconscious state. Short duration of offending is no measure of seriousness for sexual offences. The youth of an offender does not bear on objective seriousness where the offending is adult offending.
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