OPERATION ON MALES
21 PERSONS ACQUITTED. VIENNA, July 6. Pierre Ramus and twenty other persons, including a doctor, were today acquitted by the Graz Court after a three weeks’' trial. They were charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm to many hundreds of male patients by sterilisation operations. The judge- strongly condemned their action from the point of view of religion and morality, but said that Austrian law afforded no opportunity for a conviction. No permanent injury, he said, had been inflicted, since within five years a slight operation could remove the effects of the sterilisation. Moreover, all the patients and their wives —people in straitened circumstances —had testified their appreciation of what accused had done. The Public Prosecutor lodged an appeal.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1933, Page 8
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