LIGHT FINE IMPOSED.
.OFFENCE BY FOSTER-PARENT. DEATH OF A MAORI INFANT. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. A Maori child, Huia Leahy, aged four months, died at Paekakariki on February o, and the verdict at the subsequent inquest was that death was due to exhaustion following malnutrition. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, the child’s foster-parent, Mironia Utu Budge, pleaded guilty to a charge of having retained the child for the puipose of nursing it apart from its parents for more than seven days, not being licensed as a foster-parent. It was suggested that the child got into the condition it was in owing to defendant going to work and leaving some of her daughters to look after it. The Magistrate (Mr W- H. Luxford) remarked that though the provisions of the Act were apparently not very well known, they-were very important and far-reaching, and many people might unwittingly commit a breach of them. But the heavy penalties provided showed that the legislation regarded the matter as one of importance. Had there been wilful neglect there was proper provision in criminal law which would render defendant liable to indictment. On all the circumstances of the case he did not propose to inflict a heavy penalty. A fine or £2 was imposed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 6
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