CHILD ILL-TREATED.
OFFENDER SENT TO GAOL. | (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 27. Two months’ imprisonment was the punishment meted out iy Mr Page, S.M., to Clarice (sic) Woods, a carpenter, who pleaded guilty to ill-treating a five-year-old boy. Sub-inspector Lander said that Constable Isbister found the child in the Botanic Gardens early one recent morning. The child was badly bruised and poorly clad, and said Woods had kept him out all night. Dr Ada Paterson later examined the child, and found him to be bruised from head to foot. He said that daddy had given him a thrashing and sent J-im into the park. The child had since teen committed to the care of the State. Woods had made a statement admitting causing some of the bruises, as the child had been stealing things about the house. The mother was divorced from the father of the child, and had been living with Woods for some time. It appeared that Woods had taken an antipathy to the child.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20318, 28 January 1928, Page 6
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