DREADFUL CRIME

Evening Star, Issue 23449, 14 December 1939, Page 12

DREADFUL CRIME

FATHER SENTENCED TD SIX YEARS (PBS UmiEO Pbess Association.] . AUCKLAND, December 14. “ This is the worst case of the sort to come before mo during the fifteen years I have been a judge,” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to-day in sentencing Herbert Richard Colquitt, who admitted two charges of indecent assault and one of incest. “ One charge relates to your daughter, aged 13, another to a daughter aged 11, and another to a daughter hged 10,” continued the Judge. M Tlieir safety demands that you be Kept away from them until they are able to fend for themselves. You richly deserve flogging. You will be sentenced to sis years’ imprisonment.” Other prisoners sentenced were as follows:—John Abraham Peters, unlawful carnal knowledge, two years reformative detention; James Ogden Alexander, false pretences, two years’ reformative detention; John Tahaua, breaking, entering, and theft, two years’ probation; Nehe Netaua, breaking, entering, and theft, two years’ probation ; Tarei Hotere, breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, two years’ probation ; Charles Kitchener Blackmore, unlawful carnal knowledge, two years in the Borstal.