SENTENCES FOR SEX CRIMES
MRS ROSS’S SUGGESTION TO CONFERENCE (New Zealand Press Association) PARAPARAUMU, October 7. The rousing of public opinion to influence Supreme Court judges was advocated by the Minister of Social Welfare (Mrs G. H. Ross), when she addressed the conference of the National Council of Women this afternoon. Mrs Ross said that nothing had moved the women of the Dominion more than the light sentences that* had been passed in some cases of sexual offences against little children. Nobody could interfere with the decision of a judge because "the judicial world is above the world.of politics or people,” but public opinion could be moulded. “When women think that these sentences have been too light, and I am sure many of them have been, then it is up to us to talk about it and pass resolutions,” she said. “After all, even judges read the newspapers.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 2
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