A DIFFICULT CASE
MENTAL DEFECTIVE OF 37 YEARS By Telegraph * I’i.f-m \ssoclatiox Christchurch, July 7. A mental defective aged 37 years was sentenced to two years’ reformative treatment for indecent assault at the Supreme Court to-day. For prisoner, Mr. W. R. Lascelles said that he was a single man of low’ mentality. At the age of two years he had fallen from a horse ou to a tramrail and this had affected the brain. At school the prisoner had never got beyond the second standard. His conduct was simple in the extreme; on winter evenings he played at "snakes and ladders” with children, and in summer he played “hide and seek.” There had never before been any suggestion of indecent assault. Prisoner had been examined by a. medical man, who had stated that he was a mental defective. Mr. Brown, for the Crown, said that prisoner was mentally deficient, but he was a menace to the community, and he should be restrained. Prisoner was sentenced to be detained for reformative purposes for a period not exceeding two years, and an inquiry is to be made under section 38 of the Mental Defectives Act, 1911.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 252, 8 July 1926, Page 7
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194A DIFFICULT CASE Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 252, 8 July 1926, Page 7
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