ILL-TREATED A CHILD.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1921, Page 5

ILL-TREATED A CHILD.

A WOMAN FINED. By Telegraph —Press Association. Carterton, August 24. Mrs. Adelaide M. E. Wallis appeared in the Magistrate's Court yesterday on charge of having ill-treated a child from the Wellington Receiving Home. She had seven children from the home. Dne child's head was severely cut. also |ts arm cut and its body bruised. Medical and other evidence was called. Two visiting nurses connected with the Home gave Wallis a good name and considered her a fit and proper person jto take charge of children. The magistrate. q L. P. Free, held that Wallis had been unwarrantly Severe to the child. He was loth to pend a woman occupying a responsible fxjsifton to gaol, therefore he would Convict her and inflict a fine of £2O, to be paid within 21 days. When the first case was mooted all the children were taken from Mrs. Walls’ care. A little later two were resumed. These have now been retaken irom Mrs. Wallis and are being sent to She Receiving Home this afternoon.