Jervis v Tian-Jarrah Denniss [2022] ACTMC 20

• Sentencing of Aboriginal offender with profoundly traumatic childhood including physical and sexual abuse – offences committed while in custody

[36] … A ‘robust body of research now clearly demonstrates the link between child sexual abuse and a spectrum of adverse mental health, social, sexual, interpersonal and behavioural as well as physical health consequences’: Australian Institute of Family Studies, The Long-term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse (CFCA Paper No 11, 2013) 23 cited in Bugmy Bar Book, Child Sexual Abuse (November 2019) 1.

• Referred to importance of structured culturally connected and engaged rehabilitation program on release:

[48] Strengthening your connection to community and culture in this way may well be central to your long-term healing and rehabilitation: see Vanessa Edwige and Dr Paul Gray, Significance of Culture to Wellbeing, Healing and Rehabilitation (Report commissioned by the Bugmy Bar Book Committee, 2021); R v BS-X [81]-[82]

• Found special circumstances permitting sentence to be imposed concurrent to existing sentence with period of parole – importance of potential for support and protection of community provided by supervised release: at [63]-[64]