SHOCKING CRUELTY
MOTHER HATED HER BABY “ This is the worst case of child cruelty I have ever heard in my 39 years’ experience as a magistrate.” Mr H. A. G. Stevens said this at Weymouth Police Court, Dorset. He had passed sentence of six months’ and three months’ hard labour respectively on Queeuic_ Crocker and her husband, Jesse Edwin Crocker, of Weymouth, for neglecting their three-year-old daughter. The mother was alleged to have told an N.S.P.C.C. inspector: “ I hate her and I want to get rid of her.” Witnesses said the child had not been out of the house since August, and was fed on bread and margarine, chipped potatoes, and water. When taken to an institution the little girl could not stand.
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Evening Star, Issue 23512, 28 February 1940, Page 10
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123SHOCKING CRUELTY Evening Star, Issue 23512, 28 February 1940, Page 10
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