Fine for indecency
PA Nelson An elderly man’s indecent assault on a boy, aged 14, arose from a medical rather than a criminal problem, Judge Seeman said in the District Court at Nelson.
He suppressed the defendant’s name, fined him $4OO and put him on a year’s probation, which includes undertaking counselling and treatment. The man, aged 66, had earlier pleaded guilty. Judge Seeman said there was no evidence of importuning the boy who had not been forced to go to the man’s home.
In spite of serious allegations that sodomy had been attempted, the case arose more from a medical than criminal problem.
The man had previously appeared on- a similar of-
fence. People of advanced years sometimes came into an area where their health and certain physiological changes came into judgment. This did not give licence for the offences, Judge Seeman said.
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Press, 18 December 1986, Page 6
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