CHILDREN IN GAOL
Boy Aged 3 As Witness (N.Z Press Assn. —Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 9. A Maryland gaol inspector told Senate investigators on Friday of cases in which children as , young as three years old were kept in filthy gaols for as long as 90 days. The children were held not as defendants, but as witnesses of victims in child abuse cases, the inspector, Mr Joseph Egeberg, testified. Appearing before a senate sub-committee investigating prison conditions in the nation, Mr Egeberg said: “Maryland law provides for the confinement of witnesses when security is not available, and it makes no exception for juveniles. “I know of one case in which a juvenile was incarcerated as a witness for three months,” said Mr Egeberg. He told of a three-year-old boy confined in a Baltimore City juvenile gaol as a witness in a child abuse case against his parents. “It was a rather heartstirring sight to see the small child being confined in the detention room with bars at the window, and a very minimum of facilities,” he said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31933, 10 March 1969, Page 11
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