Mediaeval Barbarity.
CHSLDREN MEGLEGTED, THE MOTHER IMPRISONED, [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright; [United Press Association.] (Received 8.0 a.m.) Loudon, February ‘2O. As a result of a charge laid !>y the Society for the Protection of Children a widow, a charwoman, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. She occupied a stinking, dark, tireless room at Clerkenwell. with three bare-ly-clothed and starving children, bordering on idiocity, who were fed on broken victuals the woman took home. The Magistrate described the case as mediaeval in its barbarity.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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82Mediaeval Barbarity. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1914, Page 5
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