INHUMAN PARENTS.
Brisbane, February 21. A young married couple named Smith were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment each for the manslaughter of their child, aged two years, through neglect. The jury recommended them to mercy.
■ The Chief Justice : I think you are a very merciful lot of jurymen. What can you say of persons who allow a child of two to suffer such injuries that its finger rots off joint by joint. I cannot imagine such inhuman conduct.
Accused’s Counsel: They are both stupidly ignorant. The Chief Justice: Ignorant! Why, a brute would not do it. I don’t believe a word of their story about the child’s injuries being caused by scalding and burning.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 381, 22 February 1908, Page 3
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114INHUMAN PARENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 381, 22 February 1908, Page 3
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