BRUTALITY TO A CHILD.
Under the heading of "Brutal Flogging," a correspondent writes to a Ohristchurch paper as follows : — " lam a father of a family, and wish to ask the public- of Christchurch if it is right to give a child ten years of age two dozen lashest with a cat-o' -nine-tails, and, m addition, to keep the boy with nothing but a drink of water from six o'clock on Sunday evening until seven o'clock on Monday evening. He received the lashes at five o'clock, and then had to walk home from Addington to the North Town Belt, after being kept one hour longer than he was sentenced to. The father of this boy thinks that, considering it was the boy's first offence, he has been punished m a brutal manner. Had a father inflicted half the chastisement he would have been punished by law, and, as well as the exposure m the papers, would probably have had the boy taken away from him. Hoping there will be some other means adopted for punishing children than by giving a child a man's flogging, I am, &c, Human Feeling."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 651, 15 March 1879, Page 2
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188BRUTALITY TO A CHILD. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 651, 15 March 1879, Page 2
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