CRUELTY TO A CHILD.
HEAYr SENTENCE ON PARENTS CHIEF JUSTICE SPEAKS OUT. Press Association —Copyright. Received February 81, 10.85 a.m. Brisbane, February 81. A young married couple named Smith have been sentenced to live years’ imprisonment for the manslaughter of their child, aged two, through neglect. ; The jnryjrecommended prisoners to mercy. The Chief Justice said “I think yon are a very merciful lot of jury men. What can you say of persons, who allow a child of two to have such injuries that its finger rots off joint by joint? I cannot imagine such inhuman conduct; Accused’s counsel: - They were both stupidly ignorant. The Chief Justice: Ignorant J why a brute would not do it. I don’t believe a word of the story about the injuries being caused by scalding or burning.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9079, 21 February 1908, Page 5
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132CRUELTY TO A CHILD. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9079, 21 February 1908, Page 5
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