SEXUAL OFFENCES
PROBLEM FOR COURT f NEED FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 12. When sentencing an elderly man who had pleaded guilty at Masterton to a revolting sexual offence, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, again commented in the Supreme Court to-day upon the heed for some institution other than a prison or a mental hospital for the reception of such cases, which had presented a repeated problem. The prisoner had been declared by an alienist as not certifiably insane. His Honor said he was inclined to the opinion that the prisoner was insane, but in view of the medical opinion he could not send him to a mental hospital. At the same time he was satisfied that the case was not one for prison, but there was nothng else to do.
Sentencing the prisoner to detention in prison for reformative purposes for a term of two years, his Honor said he would be in the hands of the Prisons Board, and possibly something might happen which would enable them to recommend that he be dealt with in some other way.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25717, 13 December 1944, Page 6
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182SEXUAL OFFENCES Otago Daily Times, Issue 25717, 13 December 1944, Page 6
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