Where incest offending is planned and involves multiple child victims of very tender age, the Bugmy principles have only modest mitigating effect on moral culpability in the absence of a causal connection between the offender's deprived background and the offending, and sentences must reflect the high objective gravity of the offending, the standard sentence, and the dominant sentencing purposes of community protection and general deterrence.
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