DROPPED OVER FENCE.
NEWLY-fiORN BABY UNINJURED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. At the Police Court, to-day, Phyllis Corrie Davis, aged 18, pleaded guilty to exposing her child in a manner likely to cause injury. Accused was an inmate of St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage, and was licensed out at Southland. While there she was assaulted by a man, though she made no complaint at the time. She returned to the orphanage and gavs birth on September 16 to a child. There were 11 occupants of the dormitory, and none knew what had happened* When the others were at breakfast, accused took the infant down the fire escape and dropped it over a eevenfoot fence into the street, where two boys saw it and their mother cared for it. The child was not injured. Accused was convicted and admitted to probation for three years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1922, Page 4
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