ILL-TREATED STEP-DAUGHTER
Young Maori Woman Convicted NEW PLYMOUTH, Dee. 21. Saying that he thought imprisonment was deserved, though out of the question because the defendant was nursing a baby, Mr Woodward, S.M., convicted Lucy Conroy, a young married Maori woman, of Rahotu, on a charge of ill-treating her seven-year-old stepdaughter, so causing her unnecessary suffering. The evidence disclosed that the child on several occasions had suffered severe bruising, the skin on her back being broken. She was afraid to go home from school, and on one occasion was carried home by the headmaster. The child seldom spoke or played with other children and always bore a strange, depressed look. Mrs Conroy said that the child was disobedient, but denied that her punishment was unduly heavy, Mrs Conroy was ordered to come up for sentence in six months and report weekly to the police with the other four children for inspection. She was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 22 December 1933, Page 9
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