CRUELTY TO BOY
RED-HOT BORER UN FINGERS
Said to have put a red-hot. poker on the fingers of a. nine-year-old boy. David Armstrong, with whose care she had been entrusted, Olga Skein, 23. of Berkeley-road, Hillingdon, was. at Uxbridge recently, sent to prison for three months for neglecting and illtreating him.
For the prosecution it. was stated that; Skein was engaged as housekeeper by the boy’s father while he was at work in Liverpool. Th boy was found by a police officer lying on a footpath at Hillington in a. state of collapse. He was in a very emaciated condition. \\ lu-n given food he ate raven ously. The boy's lingers were blister•d, and there were marks resembling burns on his body.
hen Ihe father, with a policeman and in inspector of the N.S.P.C.C. went to Hie house i ( > interview Skein, they had to break open the outside door and a. bedroom door.
I ho inspector told her that lhe boy said she had put a red-hot poker on his fingers and burned them. She replied-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1933, Page 2
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