A MOTHER IMPRISONED
FOR ABANDONING HER CHILD. By Telegraph—Press Associatiw. Wellington, Friday. The ease of the young woman Ellen Briggs, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of having wilfully exposed her child in a manner likely to cause injury to its health, was before Mr. Riddell, S.M., to-day. Accused is not 21 ■ years of age and is employed as a dometitie servant at Taihape. She ha* been motherless since she was nine years of age. The child was ten months old and was left near the entrance to the Home of Compassion, the mother hiding near by till the .baby was found and taken inside. It was fltated that she had found difficulty in getting a home for it, as its father would not help. The mother in desperation acted as she did. The magistrate said it would he a wrong principle to extend leniency to persons who abandoned little children, and he sentenced accused to 21 days' imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 18, 15 July 1911, Page 2
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160A MOTHER IMPRISONED Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 18, 15 July 1911, Page 2
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