COMMUNICATION WITH GIRL IN HOME
CONVICTION ENTERED AT AUCKLAND
(PBSSS ASSOCIATION TELIOBAU.) AUCKLAND, June 19. An unusual charge of unlawfully holding communication with a 17-year-old girl, an inmate of a receiving home under the Child Welfare Department, was brought, against Stanley Campbell Sycamore, a'married man, of Waiuku, in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Sycamore denied the charge, and his counsel submitted that there was nothing in law preventing Sycamore from communicating with her, and that what he did was not unlawful.
Fining Sycamore £2O, the Magistrate (Mr- C. R. Orr Walker, S.M.) said that Sycamore had no right to communicate with the girl. “Any man of the world can only come to one conclusion, that this man had ulterior motives. He hid only one thing in view. These girls have got to be watched and cared for.”
Counsel moved for leave to appeal, the Magistrate stating that he would consider the matter in chambers.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22432, 20 June 1938, Page 5
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