PROTECTION OF COMMUNITY
GAOL FOR SERIOUS OFFENCE. . SEVEN YEARS’. DETENTION. 5 By Telegraph—Preu Assn.—Copyright. Auckland, Last Night. Sentences imposed by Mr. Justice Smith on prisoners in the Supreme Court to-day included a term of seven years’ reformative detention on a man who had been found guilty on five counts of indecent assault on small boys. The prisoner was Norman Bergman, a blacksmith, aged 36. His Honour said there was no question that on the first three counts Bergman was guilty of unusual and unnatural offences. His history showed that life had not been very kind to him. It appeared the prisoner’s mind had been affected, although he was not certifiable. “It is all a question of how the community is to be protected,” said his Honour, “and I have decided that a long term is necessary.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1933, Page 7
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