was after sexual satisfaction he did no more than hug the child and kiss
her neck. Genuine contrition can only come from an
appreciation
and
acknowledgement
of
the
extent
of
one's error. There is no suggestion that he suffers from any
psychological flaw to deflect the obvious inference that he chose a
street urchin because he thought he could get away with it. The worst of
it is that he did not care that buying her services from M. as though
she were a prostitute in the hands of her pimp, constituted corruption
of the whole group of children.
In my view for the very reason that correctional supervision does
not contain a denunciatory element, a sentence of only correctional
supervision would not be adequate here. The offence was pre-planned.
Appellant had sufficient time for reflection. And one needs no evidence
of formal statistics to persuade that abuse of children is rife. Hardly a
newspaper appears but carries some report of malpractices with or
against the vulnerable young. The magistrate was correct in regarding