Sentence ‘condemned’
PA Auckland] The case of a Maori girl,l aged 16, who was. sentenced to Borstal training earlier this month on a charge of using obscene language to a policeman may be taken to the Court of Appeal. The Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination has condemned the “harsh treatment” the girl received from the . courts. Her lawyer, Mr M. S. McKechnie, of Rotorua, said yesterday he had advised the girl’s family to appeal ; against the sentence, which , was first imposed in the
(Magistrate’s Court at Rotorua, and then quashed and ■reimposed at a Supreme Court appeal. A spokesman for A.C.O.R.D. (Dr Oliver Sutherland) said the girl was arrested in Rotorua in late December and charged with being a minor in a bar and with using obscene language. In court the next day she pleaded guilty before Mr P. J. Trapski, S.M., and was convicted and discharged on the under-age drinking charge. She was also convicted on the obscene language charge and in early January sentenced to Borstal training.
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