Loss of Contact with Reality?

This man's (Beran's) first conviction for sexual offending was in 1988, when he was 45. He raped and molested a number of young people since then.

Counsel for Beran, Louise Elder, told the court he did not want periodic detention because of the stigma attached to it . His objections to his sentence was heard and overruled

Unrepentant, recidivist rapist given preventive detention ... Justice Gendall said Beran's advancing years had not "diminished his proclivity for violent and coercive sexual behaviour".

Now either this is a misinterpretation in reporting or a lawyer with no conception of the gravity of the offending and potential consequences for this ... the difference is, well, potentially a lifetime ... and if this is reported correctly it is a little disconcerting.