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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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