sentence — 4 rolled up charges of transmitting indecent communication to a person who was or offender believed to be under age of 16 using a carriage service offence contrary to s 474.27A of the Commonwealth Criminal Code — 5 charges of using carriage service to groom person who was or offender believed to be under 16 years of age for sexual activity offence contrary to s 474.27 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code — 1 charge of causing child exploitation material to be transmitted to offender using carriage service offence contrary to s 474.19(1)(a)(ii) of the Commonwealth Criminal Code — 2 charges of using carriage service to menace offence contrary to s 474.17(1) of the Commonwealth Criminal Code — 1 charge of procuring person under 16 years for sexual activity using a carriage service contrary to s 474.26 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code — 1 charge of using carriage service to engage in sexual activity with person under 16 years of age contrary to s 474.25A(1) of the Commonwealth Criminal Code — additional state offences — nature and circumstances — s 16A(2)(a) — offending objectively very serious — conduct predatory, premeditated, potentially corrupting and sexually and emotionally exploitative — charges after Charge 3 were committed while offender was on Community Corrections Order for unrelated offending — lack of identified real victim does not lessen gravity of offence — mental condition — s 16A(2)(m) — offender assessed as having mild intellectual disability — sentencing judge accepted that intellectual disability reduces moral culpability for sexual exploitation offences to some extent — offender’s conviction in 2013 for transmitting indecent communication to a 10 year old girl in like circumstances not only proves awareness of wrongdoing it increases moral culpability for current offences — intellectual disability has more effect on moral culpability for charges of using carriage service to menace — victim — s 16A(2)(d) — conduct was such that sentencing judge presumed that conduct has harmed or will harm them in some way — victim of single charge of causing transmission of child pornography was vulnerable not only because of age but because of intellectual disability — guilty plea — s 16(A)(2)(g) — offender pleaded guilty to all offences — fact that case was strong does not detract from utilitarian value of early plea of guilty — contrition — s 16A(2)(f) — sentencing judge not satisfied offender truly remorseful — offender repeating behaviour they knew to be wrong mitigates against finding of remorse — offender repeated behaviour for which they were sentenced in 2013 eleven times — denying or minimising conduct tends to undermine claim of remorse — when interviewed offender denied engaging in sexual conversations — rehabilitation — s 16A(2)(n) — offender not been deterred by experience of being detected and punished — prospects of rehabilitation are guarded at best — hardship to offender — no evidence intellectual disability will increase burden of imprisonment — imprisonment during COVID-19 pandemic generally harder than at other times — general deterrence — s16A(2)(ja) — offences are internationally prevalent and hard to detect given anonymity afforded by internet— community protection is best achieved by rehabilitation — sentence — sentence imposed 3 years’ and 9 months imprisonment with 2 year non-parole period — s 6AAA — if offender had not pleaded guilty total effective sentence would have been 5 years with 3 year non-parole period
