SIX YEARS’ GAOL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21528, 15 December 1939, Page 8

SIX YEARS’ GAOL

FATHER ASSAULTS CHILDREN By leiegrapn AUCKLAND, December 14 "This is the worst case of its sort to come before me during the 15 years I have been a judge.” said Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court to-day, when sentencing Herbert Richard Colquitt. who admitted two charges of indecent assault and one of incest. “One charge relates to your daughter aged 13, another to a daughter aged 11. and another to a daughter aged 10?’ continued the Judge. "Their safety demands that you be kept away from* them until they are able to fend for themselves. You richly deserve a flogging. You will be sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Other prisoners were sentenced as follows.—John Abraham Peters, unlawful carnal knowledge, two years reformative detention; James Ogden /’exander. false pretences, two years’ reformative detention; John Tahaua. breaking, entering and theft, two years’ probation; Nehe Netana. breaking, entering and theft, two years’ probation; Tarei Hotere. breaking, enterifig. with intent to commit a crime, two years’ probation; Charles Kitchener Blackmore, unlawful carnal knowledge, two years’ Borstal treatment.