Where a psychologist's report attributes offending primarily to alcohol and substance use exacerbating underlying mental health conditions, a sentencing judge is entitled to find that the mental health conditions were not causative of the offending in a material way, and to give significant weight to general deterrence for sexual offences against children.
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