ILL-TREATED CHILD
MAORI MOTHER CONVICTED (By Telegraph— Preßs Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, 21st December. Saying that be thought imprisonment was deserved, though out of the question because the defendant was nursing a. baby, Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., convicted Lucy Conroy, a young married Maori woman of Raliotu, on a charge of ill-treating her seven-year-old step-daughter and causing unnecessary suffering. . Evidence disclosed that the child on several occasions had suffered severe bruising, the skin on her hack being broken. She was afraid to go homo 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. Airs Conroy said that the child was disobedient, but denied that the punishment was unduly heavy. She was or-| dered to come up for sentence in six months, and to report weekly to (lie police with her other four children for inspection, and to pay the costs of the prosecution.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 December 1933, Page 8
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