CHILDREN'S LAW COURTS.
The children's court law of Colorado goes a step further than any other law of the kind in America in holding parents responsible for the behaviour of children. In the first six months of 1904, Judge Lindsey, of Denver, sent thirty fathers to gaol because their children were law breakers. These fathers knew the boys were habitual truants, stole rides on trains,, and did other disorderly things, and failed to discipline them. But the Judge was not so foolish as to lock iip the fathers during work days. He sentenced each to a year in gaol, the year to be made up of week ends, from noon on Saturday till breakfast time on Monday. After the first week-end in gaol he suspended sentence indefinitely, to give them a chance to reform the boys—with the assurance that if the reform failed they would be reincarcerated.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8098, 24 March 1905, Page 2
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147CHILDREN'S LAW COURTS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8098, 24 March 1905, Page 2
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