ILL-TREATMENT OF A CHILD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 2 June 1914, Page 5

ILL-TREATMENT OF A CHILD.

A MOTHER PUNISHED

HY TELEOUAPH— PKESS ASSOCIATION a, t>- U^'ERCA-RGILL, June 2." At l-v-iverton, a married woman Nellie McCreath, v. as charged that, being the mother and having custody oi Gladys McCreath aged 41 years, she did wilfully ill-treat the child in a manner likely to cause it unnecessary suffering. From the evidence, it appeared that on May 11 the attention of a constable was directed to the child, and on examination he found it a mass of bruises from head to heel, with some abarasions and marks about the face. The little one was taken to a. doctor who, upon examination, described if as a^ shocking case. The woman was fined £10, and expenses, or in default two "'onths' imprisonment with hard labor. The custody of the child was taken from her.