On 3 June 2015 the Attorney General asked us to produce a snapshot of sentencing for child sexual assault offences. This was a response to the 2014 report of the Joint Select Committee on Sentencing Child Sexual Assault Offenders which noted that community perceptions of sentencing decisions were influenced by limited available information, which may not reflect the complex considerations and sentencing principles that guide sentencing decisions in this area.
We transmitted our Report: Sentencing for child sexual assault (PDF, 562.5 KB) to the Attorney General on 13 November 2015. It was released on 25 May 2016.
We received the following terms of reference on 3 Jun 2015:
The Sentencing Council is to conduct a review of sentencing in child sexual assault matters in New South Wales that:
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