MOTHER GUILTY
ILL-TREATMENT OF STEP CHILD.
COURT ENTERS CONVICTION.}
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NEW PLYMOUTH, December 21.
Saying that he thought imprisonment was. deserved, though it was out of question, because the defendant was nursing a baby,’ Mr. Woodward, S.M., •convicted Lucy Conroy, a young married Maori woman, of 'Hahotu, on a charge of ill-treating. her seven-year-old step-daughter, causing -her unnec■«ssa«y. suffering..., . Tbe evidence disclosed that, the child' had. on several occasions suffered, severe bruising, the skin on her back, being broken. She was afraid to go home from school. On one occasion she was carried. home by the headmaster. The child seldom spoke or played with the other children. She 8,1 why** bore a strange, depressed look'. ' _ : ‘ Mrs Convoy '' said that the child was •disobedient', but she denied that the punishment given' it was' unduly heavy. Mrs Conroy wa-s ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called on, and to report weekly to the police, with her other four children, fo r inspection, to pay the costa of the- prosecution;.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1933, Page 5
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