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YOUTH SENT TO BORSTAL Alfred Gilbert Raymond, a youth who pleaded guilty at Wliakatane to assaulting a Maori girl with intent to commit a serious offence, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court this morning to a term of Borstal not exceeding two years. On behalf of Raymond his counsel, Mr. Hogben, said the case was heard in Whakatane a month ago. On the face of it the charge was a serious one, but the facts seemed to mitigate the offence. There had been a series of dances in a Maori village in the district, and there the less law-abiding natives used to forgather and drink Prisoner, fuddled by liquor, had made advances to the girl at the instigation of an elderly native. When the complainant had resisted Raymond ran away. Counsel considered probation would enable prisoner to rehabilitate himself. “If I granted probation,” said his Honour, “I might be doing a great deal of harm. I do not want to punish this youth, as he is possibly a victim of his environment. I will send him to the Borstal Institute.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 13
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187FUDDLED BY LIQUOR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 13
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