ANOTHER LONDON SCANDAL.
TERRIBLE DISCLOSURES. (special to press association.) London, Jane 8. Despite the Criminal Law Amendment Bill having bscome law, London has once more been electrified with horror and shame at the continuation of the traffic for immoral purposes m females of tender years. At the L?mbeth Police Court, to-day, Edward Pocknell and three women were charged with being the occupiers of disreputable houses, and having procured girls of tender age. The evidence disclosed that scores of children, whose ages ranged from ten to fourteen, had been obtained by the prisoners for debauched men who appear to be of low and depraved rank. The prosecution, which is being undertaken bythe Government, has been postponed pending further inquiries. The chief merit m connection with the discovery of this terrible and loathsome business is due to Detective Stephens, who was employed by the Reformatory and Refuge Union to make investigations. Detective Stevens m his evidence deposed that during the past four years he had rescued from lives of immorality on the streets 400 girls, whose ages ranged from four and a half to fourteen years. j
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1581, 10 June 1887, Page 2
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185ANOTHER LONDON SCANDAL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1581, 10 June 1887, Page 2
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