23 the degree of repugnance with which the offence was regarded by the court. In my view however the offence, serious and reprehensible though it was, was not in the circumstances such as to call for the accused's removal from the community. In terms of s 276 A(l) of the Criminal Procedure Act punishment shall only be imposed under s 276(l)(h) after a report of a probation officer or a correctional official has been placed before the court. The report which is contemplated is one which deals inter alia specifically with the question whether the imposition of correctional supervision is appropriate. No such report is so far available. Moreover the magistrate's sentence was imposed on 29 June 1992 and in the more than two years which have passed since then the whole picture may have