SEXUAL CRIMES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1921, Page 4

SEXUAL CRIMES.

SEVERE PENALTY FAVORED. QUESTION OF SPECIAL GAOL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. ■ “It is strongly felt regarding some sexual cases that something severe is necessary, more particularly for the protection of young girls,” remarked the foreman of the Grand Jury at the Supreme Court to-day. feel myself very strongly about these gross outrages on young children,” replied Mr. Justice Stringer. “I have on occasions had to avail-myself of the opportunity to order corporal punishment in cases of deliberate outrage, and I quite agree that the strongest punishment should be inflicted.” The foreman expressed the opinion of the jury that old men offending against the sexual code should be placed apart and out of harms way. “Yes,” said the judge, “there should be a place in which old men no longer responsible for their actions should be kept in safe custody. 1 think it is generally recognised that provision of this sort should be made. It is not fair to put these men into asylums, yet it is not fair to the public to allow them to wander at large. They want an intermediate place, ■where they could be looked after as children, which they really are in a sense in many cases. I will recommend to the Prisons Board the necessity for such a place.”