LOCKED IN HOUSE.
CHILD LEFT " ALONE. RELIEF WORKER CHARGED. MAGISTRATE'S SERIOUS VIEW. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A man who left a young child alone in a house for nine hours, while he and his wife went to Wellington, appeared in the Petone Court to-day charged with wilfully neglecting the bhild so as to cause unnecessary suffering. The accused was Leslie Justin Wood, a relief worker. The police said the parents went to see a football match and took two children with tliem. They left a third, aged three and a half years, locked in the house with some milk in a cup and some food. The child was found tapping at a window and crying bitterly. Wood pleaded guilty. The magistrate said he felt as if he had to deal with a man from Mars, for how he could enjoy a match after leaving a child alone was beyond him. A fiiieof £10 was imposed, in default a month's imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 252, 25 October 1933, Page 8
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