CAT FOR SCOUNDRELS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17579, 24 May 1919, Page 5

CAT FOR SCOUNDRELS.

CHIEF JUSTICE UTTERS A

WARNING

(Per Preas Awwoiation.) WELLINGTON, May 23.

While sentencing a prisoner at the Supreme Court for indecent assault on a little girl, the Chief Justice had something to say in regard to a necessary deterrent. He said that so far as sexual cases were concerned he had noted what had been, said by Mr. Justice Stringer. He (Sir Robert Stout), in his 20 years on the bencja, had never ordered a man to be flogged, but if sexual cases were going to increase, and the lives of little children were not going to be safe in the country owing to their being attacked by scoundrels, then he would have very seriously to consider having to order that, the utmost rigour of the law should be applied to offenders.