SEX CRIMES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1924, Page 9

SEX CRIMES

It is considered highly probable that the Cabinet will be asked shortly to ap-. prove of _a new system ft prison administration, which will include surgical treatment for persons proved to b e sexual perverts. A Bill has been drafted, and while.its contents have not yet been made known,' it is admitted that some of the provisions, which it is hoped will find their place on the Statute Book' will be drastic compared with existing conditions in; the State. Big changes are foreshadowed -m prison administration and prison treatment generally. ' In the drafting of the Bill the assistance has been sought of Judges experienced in criminal law and of well-known brain specialists; It promises to be an entirely new and far-reaching measure. The public will await, with keen interest the pronouncement of the Government's proposals for dealing with sex crimes especially. They are on the increase; and the public are insistent in their de-: mand for some other method of treating ..this.:.class'of crime. Only a day or two ago the Court.declined to interfere with the appeal of a man who had Been ordered ten years' penal servitude and also the lash for a serious offence. The Chief Justice- characterised the offence as horrible and abominable, and persons who committed such crime as a danger riot only to little children but also to the community