A BRUTAL MOTHER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1118, 9 August 1882, Page 2

A BRUTAL MOTHER.

At the Wednesbury Police Court, recently, before Messrs. A. Elwell and S. Stokes, .Temina Hales, an inmate of the West Brotnv’ioh Workhouse, was charged with having assaulted her infant daughter, aged seven months. Leah Stanley and Mary Mason, two of her fellow inmates, deposed that the prisoner beat the child about its head and face until blood issued from one of its ears, and the flesh on its face went “ almost black and blue.” When expostulated with by them, she used abusive language. They added that she frequently boat the child, and

on some occasions they had known her do it two or three times a day. William James Gilpin, master of the workhouse, deposed that he had to take the prisoner before the guardians for a like offence when her child was only a fortnight old ; and once since then he had had to do so. He believed the prisoner was of sound mind, but she had an uncontrollable temper. Mr Elwell said it was the most painful case he and his brother magistrate had ever heard, and the prisoner must be severely dealt with. She would be sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labor, and be ordered to find sureties for her good behaviour, or in default a further period of one month’s imprisonment.