JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.

NZ Truth, Issue 416, 14 June 1913, Page 7

JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.

Rampant m Chnistchurch. T?!he minimum amount of effect^ jwhich reformative trfeatjiient. has" on fuyeniles was exemplified a couple of [weeks '■ ago« when, two lads slipped jtn^der the eyes of the watchful autho»uties of the Burnhanx Industrial IScbool, and enjoyed a brief period, {pljliberty. „ . ' Scarcely had: the boys time" to Ipeeulise that their escape had been Bucoessful; before they ok up the jene from, the point at -< which .they fcad left it prior to their, incarcer'a|tibn. A; little girl, lw<Qking m, the vicinity of Governor's was ' jthe innocent cause. of their fjjesh tfutof depravity. Immediately on peen^g:the:girl» one of the. lads is allied to ha.ye overtaken and indecaitly assaulted her. On ■.'•this charge 1 fie y?as snbseguently ' brought, ' -itojf -Xustices at Lyttelton, and coinYBt^a ; td. the- Suprenid^...Coui-t for