TRAGIC CASE
ILL TREATMENT OF CHILI)
A flve-year_oki girl who. it is alledged, had been kept hidden in an upstairs lumber-room at I niontown, Pennsylvania, since her birth, was rescued by officials of Western Pennsylvania Humane Society, says Reuter. The official who found the child said that her arms were tied above her head, and she was wedged in the chair, unable to talk or move. She was never given enough nourishment. ‘ Her hands, arms and legs were just bone with the skin drawn over them. Rones Twisted “She never grew normally, and the tilted chair on which she lay, half-reclining, half-sitting, was so small that the child had to double her legs partly under her.” For the first two years of her life the child was kept in an attic without windows or ventilation. Then she was transferred to the lumberroom. Doctors at the Hospital where the child is being treated said that the bones of her legs were softened *ud twisted from their normal shape, and that she was suffering from rickets. ; A farmer and his daughter are to be charged with cruelty.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12332, 22 April 1938, Page 4
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