R v DW (No 1) [2020] NSWDC 461

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v DW (No 1) [2020] NSWDC 461 Hearing dates: 20 March 2020 Date of orders: 11 May 2020 Decision date: 11 May 2020 Jurisdiction: Criminal Before: Sutherland SC DCJ Decision: Convicted and ordered to comply with Community Correction Orders for a period of 3 years Catchwords: CRIME — Historical child sex offences — Sexual intercourse with child >10 <16 – child offender – extensive delay – rehabilitation – sentencing children who commit child sex offences – non-custodial sentence Legislation Cited: Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 Crimes Act 1900 Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 Criminal Legislation Amendment (Child Sexual Abuse) Bill 2018 Cases Cited: Knight v The Queen [2015] NSWCCA 222 Magnuson v R [2013] NSWCCA 50 Mill v R (1988) 166 CLR 59 Moon v R [2000] NSWCCA 534; 117 A Crim R 497 MS2 & Ors v Regina [2005] NSWCCA 397; (2005) 158 A Crim R 93 Parente v R [2017] NSWCCA 284; 96 NSWLR 633 Paul Campbell v R [2018] NSWCCA 87 R v BJW (2000) 112 A Crim R 1 R v Campbell (a pseudonym) [2017] NSWDC 359 R v Cattell [2019] NSWCCA 297 R v Cattell [2019] NSWDC 504 R v DS (Paul Campbell) NSWDC (unreported) 13 December 2018 R v Elliott and Blessington [2006] NSWCCA 305 R v MJR (2002) 54 NSWLR 368 R v Moon [2000] NSWCCA 534 R v PGW [2002] QCA 462;134 A Crim R 593 R v SW NSWDC (unreported) 10 September 2018 R v Tepania [2018] NSWCCA 247 R v Todd [1982] 2 NSWLR 517 R v Tomlinson NSWDC (unreported) 25 February 2019 RC v R; R v RC [2020] NSWCCA 76 Regina v RP [2018] NSWDC 125 RL v R [2015] NSWCCA 106 RP v R [2015] NSWCCA 215 The Queen v Pham [2015] HCA 39 Texts Cited: Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Final Report (presented 15 December 2017) Category: Sentence Parties: Regina (Crown) DW (Offender) Representation: Counsel: Ms C Davenport SC for the offender