TRIVIAL OFFENCES.
CHILDREN BEFORE COURT. BETTER SYSTEM REQUIRED. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND. December 6. The practice of bringing very small children before the court for more or less trivial offences was commented upon by Mr E. C. Cutten, S.M., in the Children’s Court. A boy,. aged eight years, was charged with stealing a number of instruments from a school laboratory. It was stated that when the instruments were missed the matter was put in the hands of the police, who discovered the boy had taken them. Mr Cutten said he thought far too many cases of this type were comma before the court. The hoy should not have been brought before the court. Someone should have the right to use discretion in these matters, and this was a case where « should have been employed. Mrs M. E. Ferner, associate member oi the court, said she quite agreed with what Mr Cutten had said. A number of oases came before the court in which very young children were charged with offences. it would be a great deal better i£ they could be dealt witn in some more simole way.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19966, 7 December 1926, Page 10
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