Principles applicable to sentencing children under s 6 of the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 (NSW) have no application to the sentencing of an adult decades after offending, and the applicant's youth at the time of historical offences is relevant primarily to whether a different sentencing regime would have applied had the offence been discovered at the time.
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