SOCIAL VICE
HEINOUS TRAFFICKING . ' ''' - ' ’ rh. IMPASSIONED DENUNCIATION - MORE POLICEWOMEN NEEDED. (United PressAasn.—Copyright.) (Received 1 pjn.)- • f -/ 4 GENEVA, September 16:'.“I would like to kill men guilty.-;cif assaulting children,’ ’ declared DapTe. Edith Lyttelton, impassionately, before the committee discussing^ vice. ‘lt is a disgrace that. Britain punishes them less than forgers and thieves; The age of consent should be raised, licensed houses abolished, the position of women improved and more police' women employed. Even the most de» graded women are intimidated by the presence of policewomen patrols, , > “No words are strong enough to denounce profiteers in vice// Dame Lyttelton added, ‘and there is no length to which traffickers, in human flesh will not go.” , She hoped that the 1928, Assembly would recommend the strongest repressive legislation,—A.P.A. and Sun.
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Northern Advocate, 17 September 1927, Page 9
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