CHILD CRUELLY BEATEN
TURNED OUT AT NIGHT GAOL FOR PERPETRATOR [Peb United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 27. Two months’ imprisonment was the punishment meted out by Mr Page, S.M., to Clarice (sic) Woods, a carpenter, who pleaded guilty to ill-treating a five-year-old hoy. Sub-inspector Lander said that Constable Isbistcr found the child in the Botanic Gardens early one recent morning. The child was badly bruised and poorly clad, and said Woods had kept him out all night. Dr Ada Paterson later examined the child, and found him to be bruised from head to foot. He said that daddy had given him a thrashing and sent him into the park. The child had since been committed to the care of the State. Woods had made a statement admitting causing some of the bruises, as the child had been stealing things about the house. The mother was divorced from the father of the child, and had been living with Woods for some time. It appeared that Woods bad taken an antipathy to the child.
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Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 6
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172CHILD CRUELLY BEATEN Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 6
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