admission of evidence on charges of defilement of children of tend
age.
The Ordinance also empowers the jury or Magistrate, as the case n
be, before whom a charge of rape or of carħal knowledge of a gin)
under twelve years of age is heard, to acquit of such charge and t
convict of either of the lesser offences of defilement of a girl
between twelve and sixteen, or of procuring of a woman or girl, ori
carnal knowledge of a female idiot, or of indecent assault as on t
evidence the case may be.
In order to prevent as far as possible young persons from being
brought to the Colony for immoral purposes a new sub-section is a
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offence to knowingly harbour a girl under eighteen years of age
taken out of the possession and against the control of her father,
mother or other person having the charge of her.
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