CHILD NEGLECTED.
FATHER SENT TO GAOL. A SHOCKING CASE. MOTHER ALSO TO BLAME. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 26, 6.6 p.m. London, Sept. 25. James Lewie Mcßride, aged forty, a justice of the peace, a member of the Blaydon urban council and chairman of the local hospital board and the NorthEastern Iron and Steel Trade Confederation, was sentenced to two months’ hard labour and his wife was fined £25 for neglecting their fifteen-year-old daughter. Evidence was given that the child was found kneeling on a filthy soaked mattress. She was verminous and weighed only A doctor at the institute to which the child was taken said that this was the worst case he had ever seen. He feared that the neglect would permanently injure the child’s health. The defence was that the parents had repeatedly but unsuccessfully tried to get- the child into an institution for mental defectives.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1924, Page 5
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