JUDGE’S WARNING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 138, 10 May 1930, Page 9

JUDGE’S WARNING.

MEN WHO ASSAULT GIRLS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 9. A warning that men who commit assaults on women and children could be ordered floggings by the Court, in addition to a term of seven years’ imprisonment, was given by Sir Alexander Herdman in the Supreme Court when dealing with Albert Bache, who had pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a girl. Mr Noble, for accused, said that it was one of those inexplicable cases which at times came before the courts. Bache had been in the army four and a half years, and had been a resident in New Zeland only twelve months. His Honour said that at all criminal sessions there were always several eases of a similar nature. “To indicate how serious the law regards this class of offence, there is a section in the statutes which, in addition to providing imprisonment up to •'even years, allows the offender to bo flogged, one, two, or three times, according to his age. I don’t propose to order a flogging, but it is just as well men of your class should understand the position. Women and children must be protected. You will be sentenced to imprisonment for three years with hard labour.”