ASSAULTS ON WOMEN
Sir, —In Thursday's Herald tou mention that the police are having difficulty in investigating the varioui assaults oil girls and women owing to the reluctance of the victims to give particulars. In our district we are suffering from the same problem, reversed. We cannot get the police to act at all—even when they are given particulars of actual assaults. At tho beginning of this year a man with a bicycle accosted two little girls, but rode away when they screamed. The matter was reported, and that was the end of it. A woman in our street was assaulted and given a black eye by another man (presumably), and had to receive medical attention at the police station, vhere she collapsed after roporting the outrage. When asked by the doctor what he was going to do, the custodian of the law said, "Oh, arrest him, of course." But the man got, off si-Df free it is quite time theso cases weru brought to the light, and we would be grateful if the newspaper! would help to protect women and children by publishing facts that arp brought to their notice. A. Bennett. 16 Mal'-ern Road, Morningside.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22541, 5 October 1936, Page 12
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197ASSAULTS ON WOMEN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22541, 5 October 1936, Page 12
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