A sentence of fourteen years imprisonment for maintaining a sexual relationship with a child is within the permissible range where the offending involves the combination of a very young complainant (aged 4-8), regular penile-vaginal rape, a biological parent-child relationship, an approximately three-year maintaining period, and conviction after trial. The absence of some aggravating factors present in other cases (such as a longer maintaining period, relevant prior convictions, or impregnation) does not render such a sentence manifestly excessive where other aggravating features are present.
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