For an offender's history of child sexual abuse to reduce moral culpability, the offender must establish on the balance of probabilities that the abuse was a 'contributing factor' in the offending conduct — terminology such as 'causal link' or 'causal nexus' unduly elevates the threshold and should not be used.
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