UNUSUAL CHARGE PREFERRED
ALLEGED FAILURE TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ATTENTION (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH. Maj> 5. • The unusual charge of failing to provide medical attention was preferred in the New Plymouth Magistrates Court to-day against Colin Clifford Taylor, of Waitara, a labourer, who was arrested yesterday. The charge was that between October 1 and December 2, 1941, at Mokau, as head of a family and under a legal duty to provide necessaries, to wit, medical attention, to Robert Bruce Taylor, a child under the age of 16 years, he did omit without lawful excuse to do so while such child remained a member of his household, whereby the life of such child was endangered by such omission. Asking for a remand till May 13. which was granted, Senior-Detective E. C. Jarrold said that the inquest into the death of the child was opened in December last. . He proposed to take the inquest proceedings in conjunction with the prosecution.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23630, 6 May 1942, Page 3
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