Social Vice Denounced
“Let Punishment Fit Crime”
Vehement Declaration Made at Geneva By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. Received 9.5 a.m. GENEVA, Friday. “T WOULD like to kill men guilty of assaulting children,” I. declared Dame Edith Lyttleton, impassionedly, before a committee discussing social vice. “It is a disgrace that Britain punishes them less than forgers and thieves.”
'J'HE age of consent should be raised,
licensed houses abolit—u, and the position of women improved. More policewomen should be employed. Even the most degraded men and women were intimidated in the presence of policewomen and patrols.
Dame Edith Lyttleton said no words were strong enough to denounce profiteers in vice. There was no length to ■which traffickers in human flesh would not go to gain money. She hoped the 1928 Assembly would recommend the strongest progressive legislation.-—A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 9
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