INDECENT ASSAULT.
CHILD BRUTALLY TREATED WELLINGTON, June 5. William Bannerman Rogers, a married man, aged 25 years, who pleaded guilty to indecent assault on a young girl, appeared before Mr Justice Reed for sen- * tence. Evidence was called to lefufce the prisoner s statement that he was subject ' to fits. His Honor remarked that in 1919 tho prisoner assaultod a little girl and got three •years’ reformative treatment. There were a number of minor offences on his list. This 1 was one of tho worst cases he had known of the kind. 'Hie little girl assaulted, 1 uged six years, -was now in the hospital J suffering from a certain disease comrmini-' rated by the prisoner. The crime was deliberate. He could not think of anything more brutal than the treatment of the child by Rogers, who left her on tho sandhill* at Lyall Bay, though the weather was cold and it was raining- He sentenced the prisoner to five years imprisonment, ' to be followed by three years’ reformative treatment. He also ordered one flogging of 10 strokoa.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3769, 8 June 1926, Page 35
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178INDECENT ASSAULT. Otago Witness, Issue 3769, 8 June 1926, Page 35
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