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

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