BOY TIED TO BED

Shannon News, 10 September 1926, Page 2

BOY TIED TO BED

FIENDISH CKUEJU TV. HARD LABOUR FOR PARENTS. "It is incredible in these days that anybody should be guilty of such fiendish cruelty to a child as you have been," said the Liverpool stipendiary in sentencing John Roger Simpson, a labourer, and his wife, Agnes Cecilia Simpson, of Upper Dalton Street, each to six months' hard labour for ill-treating Thomas Ernest Simpson,, aged 9. It was stated that the man was the father of the boy and the woman the step-mother. Guided by moans, the police found the boy at 10 p.m.

lying on a bed in the corner of a room with both his arms tied tightly behind his back to the bed rail with a woman's silk stocking. His ankles were also tied. The boy was in a stocking state with bruises all over his body. When the woman returned she said: "I beat him with a belt and tied him to the bed because he stole a loaf." It was also alleged that at noon the same day the woman said to a neighbour: "f came back just in time, as he has bitten through his bonds. I don't think he will escape again as 1 have tied him to the bed." A doctor said the child was not | properly fed and his hands ana wrists were bruised and swollen through the tightness of the bond.