BOY CHAINED TO BED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10318, 29 January 1927, Page 7

BOY CHAINED TO BED

REVOLTING CRUELTY TO CHILD OF EIGHT. LONDON, Jan. 12. With a dog’s chain fastened round bis neck and the chain padlocked to a bed, his hands crossed and hound tightly with a .strap, a hoy of eight was found by an inspector of the N.S.P.C.C.

The boy, Roger Francis Vincent, had been found wandering in the streets a few nights before, and the inspector had called at a house in Cameron-road, Seven Kings, the home of Eric Alfred Littaur and his wife, who had adopted the lad.

For ill-treatment the man was sentenced yesterday to two months’ hard labor and the woman to one month. The inspector told the Stratford magistrate that lie disevered 14 bruises on the boy’s back, eight on his left side, eight on the left leg, and eight on the right leg. Other parts of the body were a mass of bruises. Littaur declared that the hoy had been stealing persistently. He had thrashed him; and the boy then ran away, breaking a window to get out. As lie was to go to a home lie was chained up in the bedroom. When sentence was passed Littaur said: “Can I say something?” The chairman: We have settled the ease—consider yourself fortunate.