PARENTS’ RESPONSIBILITY.
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81 •' , yhE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Sept. 25. James Lewis Mcßride, aged forty, a ■Wsfcee of the peace, a member of the Blaydon Urban Council, and chairman or the local Hospital Board and the North-Eastern lion and Steel Trade Confederatipn, was sentenced to two months’ hard labour, and his wife was fined £25 for neglecting their 15-year-old daughter. . Evidence was given that the child was lonnd kneeling on a-filthy soaked mattress. She was verminous, and weighed only 40Ubs. A doctor at the institute to which the child was taken said that this was the worst case he had ever seen. • He feared that the neglect would permanently injure the child’s health.
The defence was that the parents had repeatedly but unsuccessfully tried to get the. child into an institution for mental defectives.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 5
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