INDECENT ASSAULT CASE
JUDGE'S DETERRENT
(By Telegrapn.—Preaß Association.) ! AUCKLAND, February 13. ' Sentences imposed by Mr. Justice Smith on prisoners in the Supreme Court included a term of seven years' reformative detention on a man who had been found guilty on five counts of indecent assault on small boys. The prisoner N \vas Norman Bergman, a blacksmith, aged 36. His Honour said there was no question. that on the first three counts the accused was guilty of unusual and unnatural offences. His history showed that life had not been very kind to him. It appeared that the prisoner's mind had been affected, although he was not'certifiable. '"It is all a question of how the community is to be protected," said his Honour, "and I have decided that a long term is necessary."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 13
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131INDECENT ASSAULT CASE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 13
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