APPENDIX VIII
WOMEN & GIRLS SECTION
Prosecution for Offences against the Protection of
Women & Juveniles Ordinance No. 1 of 1951
during the period 1.4.55—31.3.56
Details of Prosecution
(a) General
Number of Cases.....
Number of Charges...
Number of Defendants
8
Number of Children involved ....
9
(b) Charges
i
Defilement of girl between 13 & 16
(1)
Defilement of a girl under the age of 13
(1)
Harbouring an unmarried girl under 21
years
(1)
Indecent Assault upon females
(6)
(c) Results
Defendants imprisoned
4
Defendants put on probation &
received strokes of the cane.....
2
Defendant discharged
1
(d) The Children
Number placed in Good Shepherd
Home & Po Leung Kuk
Number restored to parents and/or
guardians
32
5
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