CORRESPONDENCE.
The Goodgame Prosecution forCwlty. [Tq the Editor, Wairarapa Daily Times.] " *-
1 Sir.—Your correspondent "Settler" must either know nothing about the maUer, or must be prejudiced in favour of the parents, as the child was undoubtedly most cruelly and systematically ill-treated, The evidenoeof the medical man was of itself conclusive tp prove that the qirl had been subjected to gross ill-usuage of the worst-kind, There was notbiog to disprove that fact, and, in reality, the mother and step-father admitted it, In many countries instead of being brought before tli9 Magistrate's Court to answer the charge, '{hey would have been tarred and feathered first and then, if necessary, tried afterwards,
Had it not been for the humane interference of someof the neighbours, the girl would have still been liable to
the same infernal cruelty, and I think the witnesses for the prosecution should be thanked rather than otherwise for exposing such a gross case and making it public . I am, etc,, Another Settler, Mauricevillj,, 20th Augmt.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4198, 22 August 1892, Page 2
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165CORRESPONDENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4198, 22 August 1892, Page 2
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