SUPREME COURT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 24 May 1919, Page 5

SUPREME COURT.

«^ FLOGGING FAVORED FOR SEXUAL OFFENCES.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 23. While sentencing a prisoner at the Supreme Court for indecent assault on a little girl, the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) had something to say in regard to a necessary deterrent. He said that, as far as sexual cases were concerned, he had notod what had been said by Mr Justice- Stronger. He (Sir Robert Stout), in his tvventy years' experience on the Bf. nch, had never ordered a man to be flogged, but if sexual cases were going to increase, and the lives of little children were not going ; to be safe in the country owing to their j being attacked by scoundrels, then he f would have to very seriously consider having to order that the utmost rig<*r I of the law should be applied to of-. fenders. j