INDECENT ACTS
A MEDICO SENTENCED. ( By Telegraph—Ter Tress Association) AUCKLAND, March 12. John Spretill Currie, 34, a medical practitioner of Otahuhu, was to-day sentenced to six months imprisonment for wilful and obscene exposure. Counsel said accused deplored his conduct and asserted he had continually struggled against the commission of such acts. Counsel thought that although not insane, Currie should he sent to a mental hospital for observation.
Magistrate Hunt said there was no doubt that everybody who committed such offences, was out of gear, but lie had a duty to the public. In sentencing accused lie left it to the prison authorities to say whether he should get the treamont lie deserved.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1931, Page 5
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