Hyperdermic Needle Used To Punish Girl
'NAPIER, Nov. 5. Allegations that Phyllis J\luriel Ividd, i a former cliild welfare officer, liad ill- ! treatcd a 131-year-old Maori girl under | lier care by giving her injections with ! a hyperdermic needle, were sustained I by a jury in the Supreme Court today. I Kidd was remanded by klr. Justice | Ilntchison for sentence uiitil after tlie I hearing of a second similar charge against her. The jury was absent for an hour and a half before retuniing a vurdict of guilty with a reconiincnclation for inercy. Accuscd was ieh.ased on bail. The charge rclated to incidents at ! Omakere 011 .Tune 11, 1947 where a girl ' had'been placed under the care of a j fosterniot her. I - 1 n the cou.rse o-f his summing up, the | .Tudge ifaid the 11'se of a hyperdermic ! needle was not a .justiflable metliod of punishment- for h parent or child wel1 fare officer to use,-
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1948, Page 7
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156Hyperdermic Needle Used To Punish Girl Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1948, Page 7
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