KLEPTOMANIA.
NO EXCUSE IN LAW’S EYE. “We call it stealing here,” said the Chief Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr Laidlaw) in the Police Courts in Sydney when a solicitor, pleading for a shoplifter, said that she was a victim of kleptomania. She stole a handbag, and had previous convictions, so the magistrate sent her to gaol for a month, A Sydney mental specialist said today that the medical world recognised kleptomania as a complaint which compelled victims to steal, though generally there was no other reason why they should want to. People with plenty of money stole things they would never use, just because they took a momentary fancy to them. Pew such people sought treatment. “We might recognise it as a mental disease, but the law doesn t, the doctor said. “To the law kleptomania is just plain stealing, and the sufferer must take the consequences of his or her act. Fortunately, however, such cases are few.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10886, 12 August 1932, Page 3
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