"DESERVED GAOL."
MAORI WOMAN CHARGED. STEPDAUGHTER ILL-TREATED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Thursday. Saying he thought imprisonment was deserved, though it was out of the question because of defendant's baby, Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., convicted Lucy Conroy, a young married Maori woman, of Rahotu, on a charge of ill-treating a stepdaughter aged seven years and causing unnecessary suffering. The evidence disclosed that the child on several occasions suffered severe bruising, the ekin on her back being broken. She was afraid to go home from school on one occasion, and was carried home by the headmaster. The child seldom spoke or played with other children and it was stated she always bore a strange depressed look. Mrs. Conroy said the child was disobedient, but she denied that the punishment was unduly heavy. Defendant was ordered to come up for sentence in six months, to report weekly to the police with her other four children for inspection, and to pay the costs of the prosecution.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 13
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