TRIVIAL OFFENCES
CHILDREN BEFORE COURT
MAGISTRATE DEPRECATES PRACTICE.
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenino Po»t.") AUCKLAND, This Day. • The practice of bringing very sina.ll children before the Court for more or less trivial offences was commented upon by the Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Cutten, in the Children's Court, on Saturday. A boy, aged eight, was charged with stealing a number of instruments from tho school laboratory. It waß stated that when the instruments were missed tho matter was put in the hands of the police, who discovered the boy had taken them. Mr. Cutten said that he thought that far too many eases of this typo were coming before tho Court. The boy had taken tho instruments because they were bright, and they had caught his childish fancy. He had no idea of thoir value, and had no intention of stealing. The Magistrate added that he had given instructions that the boy should not be brought before the Court. Someone should have the right to use discretion in these matters, and this was a case where it should have been employed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 8
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