It  must  continually  be  remembered  that  in  law  it  is  regarded
as  a  criminal  indecent  assault  to  examine  the  physical  condition
of  one  person  at  the  request  of  another  person,  without  the
former's  full  and  intelligent  consent  and  assent  or,  in  the  case
of  children,  of  those  in  loco  parentis.  In  the  Armstrong  abduction
case  (1885),  which  led  to  the  passing  of  the  Criminal  Law  Amend-
ment Act,  a  medical  man  of  high  standing  was  reprimanded  for
assisting  in  a  case  where  a  midwife  was  held  by  Mr.  Justice  Lopes
to  have  committed  an  indecent  assault  upon  a  girl  under  the  age
of  sixteen  years  by  examining  her  upon  her  consent  alone.
