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SHOCKING ILL-TREATMENT OF A CHILD BY ITS PARENTS.

Dunedix. This day

La.-t night's Star says that the police, acting on information supplied by a number of the inhabitants of South Dunedin, have brought to light a. case of shocking , ill-treatment of a child by its parents. An information ag.uusfc the parents is to be laid, and the case will be adjudicated on by the city Bench. The child fillofi-od to be ill'-troated is a boy seven-and-a-half years old. It is known that for several days the boy had his arms tied behind his back, so that he was unable to move them in any way. In that state he was locked up in an outliou.su for hours at a stretch. During the stepmother's temporary absence some neighbors gained an entrance into the house and removed the boy, whose condition is said to have been pitiable. He was in a liigh state of fever, and was suffering from inflammation of one of the lungs. One of the bones of the left fore-arm had been recently fractured, and apparently was unset, and his back bore marks of recent bruises. The police, on becoming acquainted with the circumstances, had the boy examined by Dr. Dezouche, "who ordered the poor little fellow's removal to the hosjntal, -where he (Dr. Dezouche) is now attending him.

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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3640, 13 March 1883, Page 3

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SHOCKING ILL-TREATMENT OF A CHILD BY ITS PARENTS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3640, 13 March 1883, Page 3

SHOCKING ILL-TREATMENT OF A CHILD BY ITS PARENTS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3640, 13 March 1883, Page 3

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