ASSAULTS ON GIRLS.
—: * IAIPRISONAfENT AND THE CAT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
TNVERCARGILL, this day
At the Supreme Court, Albert Edward Uoff, aged fifteen, was arraigned on two charges of Having committed criminal assaults on girls, one nine years old, and the other seven. He pleaded guilty to the first charge. His Honor said it was a subject for regret that there was no reformatory in the colony, as it might be very beneficial in such eases. The only institution which answered to the purpose in New Zealand was an Industrial School, to which children who had not committed any crime were sent, and he could not see his way even to recommend that, the accused should be allowed to associate with other children. The only chance for the prisoner was severe punishment find a long term of imprisonment, to grive him an opportunity of breaking away from evil companions. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment and two whippings of twelve strokes each, the first this day month and the second at the end of four months.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 7 February 1899, Page 5
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