A woman was charged with cruelly ill-treating a small slave girl, nine yerrs of age, during the past three month:
Miss McGowan, a lady doct" St. Elizabeth's Hospital, handed ina written report as to the child's condition, and containing the girl's statement when she was brought to hospital.
Miss McGowan said that the child had told her that accused had stuck needles into her. When the child was brought to hospital there were blood marks on her head. Accused's husband snd a man in her employ had brought the girl to the hospital, and the—former suid that she was not a slave but the child of his riesha coolie. The child said that she was a slave, 5 Prisoner stid that the wounds on the ginl's feet were due to chilbla The child, who was ewried into Court by an amah, on being questioned, evidently through fear, said that accused had. not been cruel to her.
At the magistrates's request one of the girl's feet was unbound, and the awful nature of the wounds was seen. Apparently I the little one's feet had been so tightly bound that the flesh on the heel had rotted away, leaving the bone exposed, The Assessor said that he could not [punish the woman, as the child had said that she had not been ill-treated by her, and moreover prisoner hut ap-[quently had the little girl but a few {months and her treatment previous to that might have been the cause of her injuries.
Prisoner was therefore di caution and the child was ordered to be sent to the refuge for slave as she was well.
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