BABY FARM SCANDAL.
SENSATION IN NEW YORK. MANY INMATES DIE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. 4 New York, May 8. One of the worst baby farm scandals on record has just been revealed by a raid by a Children’s Protection Society on a so-called infantorium situated in the heart of New York, in which 22 tiny inmates are known to have died since the beginning of the year. The last victim, a little boy less than a year old, was removed yesterday by the police and died this morning at the hospital as the result of starvation. Nineteen other infants found in the infantorium were all suffering from malnutrition. One little girl related that it was the custom to whip the children when they asked for more food, and she declared that they were always hungry.
The twenty-third inmate of the baby farm conducted by Mrs. Helen Geisenvolk, a former German Red Cross nurse, and widow of a Prussian army officer, died from malnutrition on Friday.
The woman is held on a charge of giving a strange child to a father who called for his own on Tuesday. The latter is still missing, while half a dozen children remain in the hospital unidentified.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1925, Page 7
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