A BRUTAL CRIME.
SENTENCE ON A BEAST. FIVE YEARS AND A FLOGGING. (Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. William Bannerman Rogers, married (25). who pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a yourtg girl, appeared before Mr. Justice Reed for sentence. Evidence was called to refute prisoner's statement that he was subject to fits. The judge remarked that in 1919 prisoner assaulted a little girl and got three years' reformative treatment, awl j there was also a number of minor offences on his list. This was one of the worst cases of the kind the juclgje had known. The victim of his bestial lust was a little girl of only six years. She was now in hospital suffering from venereal disease communicated by prisoner. The crime was deliberate. The judge could not think of anything more brutal than prisoner's treatment of the child throughout. He left her on the sandhills at Lyall Bay, though it was cold and raining . . ..•' ■■..;• The sentence was "five years with hard, labour, to be followed by three years' reformative treatment, and one flogging of ten strokes was ordered in addition.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 5 June 1926, Page 11
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184A BRUTAL CRIME. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 132, 5 June 1926, Page 11
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