YOUTH’S ESCAPADE
Placed Under Control (N.Z.P.A.) OPOTIKI, Aug. 15. A youth, aged 16, appeared before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., at the Children's Court on charges of laying a false information with the police, and with indecently assaulting a female. Defendant admitted the firs charge and pleaded not guilty to the second. Sergeant J. Isblster said that when two youths, wards of the State, left Gisborne armed with guns and ammunition, the police believed defendant's story that he had been attacked by two Maori youths, and that a girl passenger had been assaulted. When they discovered that the Gisborne youths were in Rotorua at the same time as the alleged assault, the police questioned aefendent further. He finally admitted that he left the car under the pretext of going to a nearby shed for a valve for a tyre, but instead pnt on a mask, returned to the car and assaulted the girl. The Magistrate, in view of the circumstances, said that the youth would be committed to the care of the superintendent of child welfare.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23280, 16 August 1945, Page 4
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176YOUTH’S ESCAPADE Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23280, 16 August 1945, Page 4
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