GIRL'S DEPRAVITY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1993, 26 February 1914, Page 6

GIRL'S DEPRAVITY.

SHOCKING CASE IN DUNEDIN. (By Tefeerdph.-Fi*ss Assedati.oß-) DunetJln, Feljrttary 23. A remarkable .c?se cnnic before the Juvenilb Court to-day wtwiri a girl aged 13 years ami 10 months was broiightup under the. .Industrial Schools Act Siib-liispectbr.Fouhy said that tire mother of tho girl wiis a laundress, anel her father was away. TKo in'qUicr had absolutely no control over hut daugii-: tor. For the past. ih'ro* ffiontlis , tlib fiirl had been stayiftg out ati wight,, hav-. ing been out as late~«s '£ o s cfek in tlie morning. She bad , occasionally., been brought homo in 1 a motor-car, mid, oil three occasions, sl«s liiol arrivefJ horiie in a state of intosieatioit. She was also. given to cigarette sinoking. He' cently she Jiad beeii employed in . a restaurant, and in an hofelj but, owing to her bad habits, she had lost these situations., She tad ten arrested in a room which she had rented. Tlib Magistrate (Mr. H, Y. son) said that the letting of rooms to young girls had come under Iris notice on several occasion's.; It was a perfect curse to young girls, who ooilkt stay out until all hours, *and ho did not know what could be done to.stop it. The only thing for pet-satis letting theso rooms was. to. see thaiv. applicants were genuino ■in their desire te rent tho rooms.' .' The mother stated that her daughter* sometimes never came honio at nil nt night, and she never eatiro bourn earlier than 11 and 12 o'clock. Sho also t«ok drink. Tho last tiiijo that she caino home—a week ago—sl;e vras the wms@ of drink. Witness could do nothing with her. . * •" Tho girl tras coroßiittett to To Ofangi Home, Cliristchurch, to be brought up in-the Church of England faith. * -.