INHUMAN CRUELTY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2820, 11 February 1888, Page 2

INHUMAN CRUELTY.

The Loudon Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has no lack of work cut out for it/w Judging by the Society's report, to which the Baroness Burdett Ooutts writes the introduction, there is a, large field in London for the opera- ' tious of the Society. The report affords a hideous glimpse of an under current'of shocking brutality in the great metropolis of civilised England which is positively shocking. Hanging, a naked boy to the ceiling and flogging him unmercifully; breaking a girl's" arm, and then making her scrub, and beating her for being slow; savagely beating a baby fifteen months old hi order to vex somebody else; immersing a dying boy into a tub of cold water in order to get the " dying doneburning a blind child ■ with a red hot poker, and lashing a three-year-old's' face' and jM with a drayman's whip ' few of the cases which 'the Society cites as among those which demanded their interference. Besides these there were twenty-two cases of, deliberate starvation, twenty-six N of. thoughtless neglect, and six of mo,nslaughter. These cases were not 6011- . * fined to the Bill Sykes strata of Society. Probably the - inhuman . wretches who indulged in this pastime . went to church and prayed. The , : Committee state that this cruel usage of children which they report is wholly independent of. surroundings and of wages, and is the work of haters of children and cultivators of sullen, pitiless, and intolerant dispositions. The published records of the Society. are. enough to make humanitarians' despair. The spread of the social instincts and the perfectability, of ■ humanity are a good many, leimes away yet. The tiger in human iiOT : e dies hard Christchurch Telegraph.