SHOCKING ILLTREATMENT OF A BOY.
. ': ♦ » ■:■•■:■,:•:>?- --[PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Dunedin, This Day. ; < The police have brought tbiight a^base of shocking ill-treatment of a- child' by its parents. The child alleged to be ill- . " treated is a boy of seven and alijalf years old. It is known that for several daya the boy had his arms tied behind This,-: back so that he was unable to inovethem in any way. In that' state he was locked up in an outhouse for several hours at a stretch. During the stepmother's temporary absence some neighbours . fiained an entrance into the housed and the boy, whose position' is -said to sl have '•' been pitiable. He was in a high state of fever, and was suffering from inflamation of one of the lungs.' One of the bones of the left fore-arm had been recently frao- - ' tured,, and. apparently was unset^ krtd^his; ba<jk bore .marks of recent bruises..- The.' police ordered his removal to the Hospital, ,. ,•
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 78, 13 March 1883, Page 2
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160SHOCKING ILLTREATMENT OF A BOY. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 78, 13 March 1883, Page 2
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