CHILD ILL-TREATED
MAORI WOMAN COMMITTED I Per Press Association. 1 NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 21. Saying that he thought imprisonment was deserved, though out of the question because defendant was nursing a baby, Mr. Woodward, S.M., convicted Lucy Conroy, a young married Maori woman of Rahotu, on a charge of illtreating her seven-year-old stepdaughter and causing unnecessary suffering. The evidence disclosed that the child, on several occasions, had suffered severe bruising, the skin on tho back being broken. She was afraid to go home from school on one occasion, and was carried home by the headmaster. The child seldom spoke or played with other children, and always bore a strange, depressed look. Mrs. Conroy said the child was disobedient, but denied that tho punishment was unduly heavy. Mrs. Conroy was ordered to come up for sentence in six months and report weekly to the police with the other four children for inspection. She must pay the costs of the prosecution.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 7
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