SEXUAL OFFENCES.
FLOGGING AS A DETERRENT. (By Teiegrapt.—Prcs* Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. When sentencing a prisoner at the Supreme Court for a serious charge concerning a little girl, the Chief Justice, Sir Rebort Stout, had something to say in regard to the necessity for a deterrent. He said that so far as sexual cases were concerned he had noted what had been said by Mr. Justice Stringer in Auckland. In his twenty years on the Bench, continued the Chief Justice, he had never ordered a man to be flogged, but if sexual cases were going to increase, and the lives of little children were not going to be safe in the country owing to their being attacked by scoundrels, then he would have to very seriously consider having to order that the utmost rigour of the law should be applied to offenders.
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Auckland Star, Issue 123, 24 May 1919, Page 13
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