SEX CRIMES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 8

SEX CRIMES.

NEW SYSTEM OF TREATMENT. NEW SOUTH WALES PROPOSAL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) ' SYDNEY. June 12. It is considered highly probable that the Cabinet will bo asked shortly I 9 approve of a new system of prison administration which will .nolude surgical treatment for persons proved to be sexual perverts.A Bill has been drafted, and while its contents have not yet been made known it is admitted that some of the provisions which it is hoped will find their place on the Statute Book will be drastic compared with existing conditions in the State. Big changes are foreshadowed m prison administration and prison treatment generally. f n the drafting of the Bill the assistance has been sought of judges experienced m criminal ’aw, "and of well-known brain specialists. It promises to be an entirely new and far-reaching measure. Jhe public will await with keen interest the pronounceraent of the Government’s proposals for dealing with sex crimes especially. They are on the increase, and the public aie insistent, in their demand for some other method of treating this class of crime Onlv a day or two ago the court declined to ‘interfere with the appeal of a man who had been ordered 10 years penal servitude and also the lash for a serious offence. The Chief Justice characterised the offence as horrible and abominable, and persons who committed such crime are a oanger not only to little children but also to the community.