CHILD ILL-TREATED

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 6

CHILD ILL-TREATED

WOMAN FINED .£2O. By Telegraph—Press Association. Carterton, August 24. Mrs. Adelaide M. E. Wallis appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge ot ill-treating a child from the Wellington Receiving Home. She had seven children from the home. On the child’s head was a severe cut, an arm was cut, and tho body was bruiser . Medical and other evidence ivas “lUed. Two visiting nurses connected with the home gave Wallis a good name, and considered her a fit and proper person to take charge of children. Iho Magistrate, Mr. S. L. P. Free, held that Wallis had been unwarrantly severe to the child. He was loth to send a woman occupying a responsible position to gaol, therefore he would convict her, and inflict a fine of £2O, to be paid within B \vhen steps were first taken in tho case all the children were taken from Wallis’s care, but a little later two were returned. These have now been retaken from Wallis, and are being sent to the Receiving Home this afternoon.