STRAPPED INFANT
Gaoled For Six Months (N.Z. Press Association) TAIHAPE, July 22. The courts in New Zealand were concerned with cruelty and ill-treatment of children, said Mr B. S. Barry, S.M., of Wanganui, when he sensentenced Niki Haronga, otherwise known as Thomas Brown, aged 40. a signals maintainer, of Taihape, to six months’ imprisonment today. Brown had pleaded guilty to wilfully ill-treating a 20-month-old boy in his custody. His wife, Rita Brown, was convicted and discharged on a charge of assaulting the child. Detective-Sergeant B. N. Middleton, of Taihape, said that he had never seen a child so badly bruised. Both defendants had admitted strapping the child in an endeavour to teach it clean toilet habits. Mr F. J. Dennehy, for both defendants, said that the child was never chastised except for messing itself. Friction arose out of overcrowding and strains and stresses in the Browns’ home.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 3
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147STRAPPED INFANT Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 3
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