NEGLECTED CHILDREN.
" MEDIEVAL BARBARITY."
SENTENCE ON A WIDOW.
"A MOST PITEOUS CASE."
Times and Sydney Sun Services.
'Received March i, 6 5 p.m.)
London, March 1. As a result of a charge laid by the Society for the Protection of Children, a widowed charwoman was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, a fortnight ago. She was alleged to have occupied a dark, tireless room in Clcrkenwell, with three barely-clothed, starving children, bordering on idiocy. All were fed with broken victuals, which the woman took home. The magistrate described the case as one of medieval barbarity.
The case was referred to yesterday in the House of Lords by Lord Selborne, who said he had been informed that the. children were really well fed. The mother, who was earning 20s weekly, could not, however, buy clothes and send them to school, and she knew that discovery meant prosecution for overcrowding and the. separation of her children when found. If this story were true, it was a most piteous case.
The Archbishop of Canterbury contended that the. law did not compel Boards of Guardians to break up homes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15549, 5 March 1914, Page 7
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