YOUTHFUL OFFENDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1927, Page 3

YOUTHFUL OFFENDER

A FLAW IN THE ACT. (Per Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 21. A fifteen-year-old boy. committed from the Children’s Court to the Supreme Court, on charges of robbery witii violence (snatching an elderly lady’s handbag and pushing her so that she fell), and with attempted hieaking and entering, was before Mr Justice Sim in the Supreme Court today. The Crown Prosecutor said that, although the offences were grave, it seemed wrong that the boy should be sent to the Borstal if this could be avoided. He understood action was being taken in Wellington to have the Act amended to clear up the question of whether children charged with indictable offences should be dealt with in the Supreme Court or ('h i l<l ren’s Court. If the Judge hail power. Ihe wisest con rse .won Id lie to send the boy to a training farm. He was sure, if the case were returned to the .Magistrate’s Court, the Magistrate would adopt this course. The Judge remitted the case to the Children's Court to be dealt with there.