BUMPED CHILD’S HEAD ON TABLE: MOTHER IN COURT
(P.A.) DANNEVIRKE,' April 5. Pleading guilty to a charge of assaulting her two and a-half-year-old daughter, causing actual bodily harm, Marea Nicholson, a married woman, of Oringi, was committed to the Supreme Court, Wellington, for sentence. The accused admitted having dumped the child’s head two or three times against the leg of a table because her presence had annoyed her. As a result the child was in hospital for weeks during which she hovered between life and death, but since has made a complete recovery.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22914, 5 April 1949, Page 7
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