SUPREME COURT.
| A JUDGE’S OPINIONS. I -a (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, last night. The Supreme Court criminal sessions opened to day. The judge’s charge wbb short. His Honor referred incidentally to the charge of incest which alleged that a boy cf 17 had been intimate with his sister, aged 15. The judge said such a case was traceable to tho senseless prudery by which ohildren were guarded from any knowledge of their physical or mental organisations. In a great many oaeoe lack of parental control wai largely tho cause of undue preoooity and familiarity among ohildren, A reluctance to inform them of the elementary facta of their being ro3ulted in such cans as that before him. In every case of vio'ent sexual orime that oame before the courts tho origin was found in a state cf ignorance whioh would have been considerably | diminished by proper intelho'.ual guidance. A. H. WooLton, for breaking and ontoring was sentenced tn two years ; and I Henry Macsden for breaking and ontoring and theft, to two years’ imprisonment W. Amos and G. Oroobett were oba ged with arson. Orcchett was granted a free pardon by tho Crown, being only an accessory. Amos was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1672, 13 February 1906, Page 2
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