TRADING IN INFANTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81892, 22 November 1906, Page 4

TRADING IN INFANTS.

AN INHUMAN TRAFFIC. THREE WOMEN FOUND GUILTY Sydney. October :?. Three women, named Elizabeth Schole , Eiiza Ann Kuin.dy, and (i ace Suan, the firs; two being mid-dle-aged, wete convicted at the cjuartet Se.sions t<-dr.y on cnarges of trading in babies. Scholes, according to the evidence, received ,£5 with a child, and passed it over to auditor woman, with a promise to pay 5/ per week. Only one, week'* payment was made. She made a trade of receiving babies on ihe plea that Ehe was going to adopt tnem as iter own. The wtmin pleaded that she had only received ,£3. She pleaded guilty to abandoning two otner children. The woman Kennedy accepted £8 wit h a child, and passed it over f o another woman. In the case of the woman, Saran, a young weman stated that Saran had told her to register the child in ao alias. Witness said she did not wisn to do anything like that, as she would be responsible. The accused Sin an siid she knew a doctor who would fix things up for her if anything happened. She also told witnes- that she knew a girl wno had a child registered in an alias, and had ■ hings fixed up bv a doctor. Saran ..•Id wi n»ss that if -h<- gave her £5 she would have the child adopted for ii,c by a woman. -Witness declining, Saian advi-"sd Iter to put rhe child on the State, but witness re-fu-ed. Evidence was given by the police to the effect that during the past few montns six babies had been found ; u Stholes's residence and since thi'iii a pietty close watch had been kepi over the woman. From jnd August to Ist ScptembiJ eight, abandenetl children were found in the slieet-, and four of them died. His Honor said Senole.s's case was a serious om\. In two cases death had re suit'd, and no doubt iliese could be laid down to her charge. He thought that the e two cases of abandoning infants and tneir associations courted a strong suspicion that odnf children had Been similarly d-alt with. He therefore musL order thn -üb=t,mtial sentence of iS months' imprisonment on each of Hie charges, of abandoning infan.s, the .entenc-s to be concurrent. With p'gaid to the other two charges lie would lei tnem stand against accused for judgment generally. The other two accused were bound over in their own recognisances to come up for sentence when called upon.