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APPENDIX IX

Prosecutions undertaken on behalf of the Moral Welfare Section of the Social Welfare Office during 1954/55 for Offences against the Protection of Women & Juveniles Ordinance No. 1

of 1951 during the period 1.4.54-31.3.55

Details of Prosecution.

(a) General

Number of Cases...

14

Number of Charges..

14

Number of Defendants

15

Number of Children involved

14

(b) Charges

Defilement of girl between 13 & 16.

Sec. 5 No. 1 of 1951.

(1)

Harbouring an unmarried girl under 21

years.

Sec. 18 (1) (b) No. 1 of 1951.

(1)

Indecent Assault upon females.

Sec. 7 (1) No. 1 of 1951.

(9)

Defilement of a girl under the age of 13.

Sec. 6 No. 1 of 1951.

(1)

Attempted defilement of a girl under the

age of 13.

Sec. 6 (2) No. 1 of 1951.

(2)

(c) Results

Defendants imprisoned

4

Defendant bound over

Defendant committed to

I

Stanley Training Centre...

1

Defendants received strokes of cane...

2

Defendants discharged

6

(d) The Children

Number placed in Good

Shepherd Home & P.L.K.

6

Number restored to parents and

Guardians...

8

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