The offender was convicted after trial of three counts of sexual touching of a child aged 10-16 and one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child under 16, and sentenced to an aggregate term of 5 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 3 years. The Court found special circumstances based on the offender's first time in custody and the onerous nature of that custody due to physical and psychological ailments. The Court accepted on the balance of probabilities that the offender's neurocognitive disorder and adjustment disorder with depressed mood made some material contribution to the offending, reducing moral culpability to a limited degree, but emphasised that the offender's continued denial of the offences and the 15-month gap between offending episodes significantly tempered that finding.
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