INFANT LEFT ON LAWN
THE MOTHER’S'PLIGHT.
NOW MARRIED—THE COURT , LENIENT. CHRISTCHURCH, November 28. At the Supreme Court Kathleen Mary Morgan, aged twenty, 'appeared ou a charge of abandoning her child. Counsel for accused said the child was born at Timaru, and the mother, failing to get her child into tho homes at Christchurch, ’became destitute, and placed the child on tho lawn of a residence where its life was not endangered. The man concerned bad now manned the accused. Mr Justice Adams -said that as sbo had married and taken tho child back, with the prospect of a happy home, ho would refrain from recording a conviction, hut did so only because ho was satisfied she abandoned the child only under the pressure of extreme destitution and friondlcssocss.
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Evening Star, Issue 18136, 28 November 1922, Page 6
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128INFANT LEFT ON LAWN Evening Star, Issue 18136, 28 November 1922, Page 6
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