PRISONERS SENTENCED AT AUCKLAND
♦ SIX YEARS* IMPRISONMENT FOR INCEST CPEE33 ASSOCIATION TH.tr.mM ) AUCKLAND, December 14. “This is the worst case of its sort to come before me during the 15 years I' have been a Judge,” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court today, when sentencing Herbert Richard Colquitt, who admitted two charges of indecent assault and one of incest. “One charge relates to your daughter, aged 13, another to a daughter aged 11, and another to a daughter aged 10.” continued his Honour. “Their safety demands that you be kept away from them until they are able to fend for themselves, You richly deserve a dogging. You will be sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.” Other prisoners were sentenced as follows:—John Abraham Peters, unlawful carnal knowledge, two years’ reformative detention; James Ogden Alexander, false pretences, two years’ reformative detention; John Tahaua, , breaking, entering, and theft, two years’ probation: Nehe Netana, breaking, entering, and theft, two years’ probation: Tarei Hotere, breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, two years’ probation; Charles Kitchener Blackmore. unlawful carnal knowledge, two years in a Borstal institution.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22894, 15 December 1939, Page 18
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