A NEGLECTED CHILD

Southland Times, Issue 18935, 23 September 1920, Page 5

A NEGLECTED CHILD

man and WOMAN pent to gaol. (TV,- T’niit-d I’rcsr Association.! GUT. lb TIT] HR Gil, bepicmber^22. At. the Magistrate'.- Court, before Mr A R McCarthy. AM., Dei hen Chat if:; Ross und Catherine Annie Henrietta lino, a ■voting married < r.r,p]f, were charged tinder bei tion 2* of the Infants’ The I’rote uam Act with having during the past sm m< tubs wilfully neglected and exposed an iiVgil ini ate male child aged two years and seven months, in a manner likely to cau.-e the ehidd unnecessary suffering and injury 11 > health. The evioenee showed that the □•male accused was the mother of the child, and that the putative father had been regularly paying matnb'-iiaiu-e. On yeptendier M a const aisle aim a nurse in the employ of (he Public Health Department visited the home of the accused ami found the child in a negleMc-1 and prmrh rlarl condition sitting on a hard chair tn the yarO. 1(- feet v. fre swollen, with large ,-oic-. The com I able informed the mother that the child sf'iMid to be slowly dying, ami she admitted that site was unable (.o give it the care if should have. Then- were three other ehii In n in the family, two the legitimate offspring of the act u.-sd and another illegitimate child. A im-dical man said that the condition of (lie child named in the charge was due to .-tar-vanon and nerlmf,. Accused denied that the child had been Mai-ved, are! stated that it hud received the same nounsltUH n* t- the oilier children. His Worship remarked that the treatment, extended to (be child wax diabolical •old inhuman to ihc last degree. Each of ihe aeeu-erl wa- sentenced to three month:'’ imprisonment.