Alleged Baby-Farming in Melbourne.
STARTLING DISCLOSURES. AN APPALLING RECORD. (Per Press Association.^ Melbourne, July 16. A certificated nurse, Mrs Fuller, has been committed for trial on a charge of alleged child abandonment. She received LlO from the mother of the child under a promise to liud a kind person to adopt the cliiicl. She stated that shi" had fulfilled tbo promise, but tlie iufaut was afterwards found abandoned on a doorstep. The police while investigating this case brought <o light evidence of babyfarming on an extensive scale. Numbera of women, mostly unmarried, came forward and made statements that they Lad arranged with different nurses, or through the newspapers, for the adaption of their children for various sums, aud ufterwards they were unable to ob tain any information as to tho whereabouts of the children. During the la^t ei»ht months the bodios ot twelye infants have been found in tho city aud suburbs. There have been niuß verdicts of wilful murder in regard to children, while seven others have been found nbandoned.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 15, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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171Alleged Baby-Farming in Melbourne. Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 15, 17 July 1897, Page 2
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