NAKED CHILDREN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 November 1926, Page 10

NAKED CHILDREN.

..’■UNFIXED IN FLAT SINCE Bill An almost ineiedible erase of cruelty to children lias been brought to light by the police at Havre, where three children. aged 6. 9. and 13 years respectively, were discovered in a .small fiat . mpietely naked, and without even i rudimentary notions of civilisation.' The Hat has been inhabited for many years by a man who works ias. a docker and his wife, a charwoman. Lon gossip had it that they had several children, but. these had never beer seen until a detective, acting on inI’oi niation received from neighbours, forced bis way into the little flat, an* found tiro three children stark naked

•nd in a filthy- condition. When D detective and the police officers- "’* accompanied him ap’proaclied the children tli© latter scratched and bit like wild animals while their •mother'thrart cued the officers with a knife. It was officers were able to wrap the child rev in blankets and carry- them off to bos ■*'lv after a brisk struggle that pital.

As a result of investigations it is stated that the children 'have been kent. naked- from birth, and have never before been outside the flat in which thev lived. Their father, the dockworker. .is a batchelor of arts, and their nn-ther. the charwoman, a certificated teacher, both of whom are said to have fallen to their present condition through intemperance.