The Judge added: “I am not in a position to answer those questions, but the authorities concerned with education and welfare of children may care to consider them.”
Before sentence was passed Mr. Byrd’s defending counsel, Mr. J. Hampden Inskip, Q.C., said he was in a position to give a firm undertaking that Mr. Byrd had no intention of returning to anything connected with teaching and would never return. He had made arrangements to go to Canada for two or three years.
Mr. Inskip said Mr. Byrd had started his work with the best of intentions. He suggested that here was an example, certainly not an isolated one, of a man who when it was necessary in the course of his professional career to inflict corporal punishment properly discovered there was this propensity latent in him.