ASSAULTS ON CHILDREN.
HEAVY SENTENCES ADVOCATED. MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan, 8, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 7. A conference of the National Union of Women Teachers passed a resolution in favor of an amendment of the law relating to assaults and cruelty to children in order that sentences may be commensurate with the crime.
Speakers emphasised that fifteen years and the cat were given in Australia for ruining a child, and imprisonment for life was given in South Africa, and condemned the light sentences given in Britain.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1922, Page 5
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92ASSAULTS ON CHILDREN. Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1922, Page 5
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