BABY ABANDONED
ON STEPS OP HOME. MOTHER BEFORE COURT. Per Psesa Asooolfctlon. WELLINGTON, This Day. A girl of nineteen, who is married to a man forty years older than herself but with whom she had never lived, appeared before Mr Riddell, S M., to-day on remand, for sentence on a charge of abandoning her haby on the steps of the Home of Compassion in April. She was dealt with under the Infants' Act, the Magistrate ordering twelve months' probation. The child is to remain in the Home of Compassion for two years, the mother paying six shillings a week. The father i s at present unemployed, and the Magistrate said the wife's amount could be reduced when he was in a. position to contribute.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 18 June 1927, Page 4
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