AT A MARITZBURG ORPHANAGE

NZ Truth, Issue 106, 29 June 1907, Page 8

AT A MARITZBURG ORPHANAGE

MAXIMUM PENALTY IMPOSED',-

XFrom our own Correrpondent.y : ' MARUTZBURG, Thursday .• vSS case of shocking immorality was brought to light to-day at the .Magistrate's Court,' when a native -was charge with assaulting a white child ten years of age,' one of the inmates of an orphanage m town. The ' case was heard m camera.; Accused is over forty years of age. Durinp; vespers' he /invited the girl into one of the roqm^, and she consented io an. .offence being com^ mitted. ' : . v ! One startling feature of~~"tM"case was the revelation of guilty know-^ ledge on the part ;^f the inmateschildren of 10, 12/ and' 14 (years' of age. One of the .children WITNESSED THE KAFFIR'S XC-- ;• TIONA and it was^epoken freely of by ;tHe ; children before reachingvthe ears Qf' the head of.. "the institution. : ".' : The "boy," employed on jthe premises as. a idomestia: factotum, and 1 consequently. had N --^int)le opportunrCies for corruptinfl t^e $iupdlssi