OLD MAN'S OFFENCE.
GUILTY OF INDECENT ASSAULT,
"We know that some elderly men are somehow impelled to behave indecently towards children. They get little girls in some secluded place and interfere with tliein. There is something that impels them do do it," said Sir Alexander Herdman when dealing with the case of Martin Charles McCarthy, aged 60, who was on trial for indecent assault on a girl of six, and common assault.
Three little girls gave evidence of the. assault, which was alleged to have taken place at Whitianga, near Mercury Bav, on August 31. Outlining the case, Mr. Osburne Lilly, for the Crown, said the old man had called the little girl into his house and had given her threepence. It was in his hotise that the offence was alleged to have taken place.
After a retirement of a quarter of an hour, the jury returned a verdict of guilty oil the indecent assault charge. McCarthy was remanded in custody until November S.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 10
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