ASSAULTS ON CHILDREN
“No Leniency By Courts” (New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Dec. 10. Two warnings that men coming before the Court for indecent assaults on children would not be extended any leniency, was given by Mr G. A. Nicholls, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill today. He gave the first warning when James Holland, aged 38, a Gore bus-driver, was charged with indecently assaulting a boy. “Maybe drink is your trouble but this is a serious offence,” the Magistrate said. “If people interfere with young children, they need not expect any leniency from this Court. People must realise that children have to be left alone.” The Magistrate repeated the warning when sending a Ryal Bush farm hand, Graha n Albert Mathews, aged 22, to gaol for six weeks for indecently assaulting a girl aged 13. “The Court would be reducing the deterrent effect if it treated these matters lightly,” he said. In determining the sentence, he had taken into account the fact that Mathews did not proced with the assault to a serious degree.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28766, 11 December 1958, Page 13
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