BRUTAL TREATMENT.
CHILD FOUND IN GARDENS.
BRUISED FROM HEAD TO FOOT
MAN SENT TO PRISON.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day.
Two months' imprisonment was the punishment meted out by Mr. E. Page, S.M., to Clarence Woods, a carpenter, who pleaded guilty to ill-treating a five-year-old boy.
Sub-inspector Lander said a constable found the child in the Botanical Gardens early in the morning. He was badly bruised and poorly clad, and said Woods had kept him out all night. Dr. Ada Paterson later examined the child and found him to be bruised from head to foot. He said "daddy" had given him a thrashing and sent him into the park. The child had since been committed to the care of the State.
Woods had made a statement admitting that he caused some of the bruises, as the child had been stealing things about the house. The mother was divorced from the father of the child and had been living .with Woods for some time. It appeared Woods had developed an antipathy to the child.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 3
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