SEXUAL OFFENCES
PROBLEM PRESENTED BY CASES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, December 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 upon the need for some institution other than a prison or 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 Honour said he was inclined to the opinion that the prisoner was insane, but in view of the medical opinion he could not send the prisoner to a mental hospital. At the same time he was satisfied the case was not one for a prison, but there was nothing else to do. Sentencing the prisoner to commitment to prison for reformative purposes for a term of two years, his Honour 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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Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 6
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173SEXUAL OFFENCES Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 6
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