LENIENCY DENOUNCED
DEALING WITH SEXUAL OFFENDERS “MAUDLIN” SENTIMENT “Maudlin sentiment” is how the Society for the Protection of Women and Children characterises the leniency shown by some Supreme Court juries in dealing with prisoners held for grave sexual offences. A strong protest against the tendency the society believes has crept into' Supreme Court trials was made by the executive when it met in Auckland yesterday afternoon. The executive hopes that the opinion it has issued will have far-reach-ing effects. The terms of the resolution embodving the society's emphatic protest said that objection was made to the maudlin sentimentality of some Supreme Court juries recently in their recommendations for leniency i\hen dealing with offenders in grave sexual charges. . , The resolution contains further protests against what the society describes as apparent lack of appreciation of the gravity of the offences and the life-long moral injury inflicted on the unfortunate victims.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 1
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148LENIENCY DENOUNCED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 662, 14 May 1929, Page 1
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