Chinese Girl Beaten and Starved On Wednesday at the Mixed Court before the British Assessor, alr Grant Jones, and Magistrate Yui the woman Wong An-sz was brought. up on remand in the case in which she is alleged to have terribly ill-treated a young Chinese girl] y who had fallen into her hands.
Mr. R. C. Faithfull appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Kentwell for the defence.
Mr. Kentwell made application for a further remand on the ground of the serious nature of the case and that he had been retained almost without notice. The application was, however, refused, and Mr. Kentwell asked permission to withdraw from the case.
Mr. Faithfull, in outlining the case, explained how the girl had fallen into the hands of the ae cused and how, after she had become sick, the woman had ill treated her in every way, had chained her to a stool, allowed her" only one bowl of rice per day and had kept her clothes from her. On January 27 the unfortunate gir) had managed to get free and she went to a woman acquaintance who, when she saw the chains on the girl's wrists, had communicated with the Police.
The certificate regarding the girl's state issued by Dr. Parrott was produced in Court. In this document it was stated that al though the girl gave her age as 17 she was so ill-nourished and un developed as to appear more like a child of 10. She was very filthy and had a large number of open and partly-healed sores upon her feet, legs and elbows and some on her face. Certain signs, bruises and scratches upon her wrists in dicated that she had been bound with cords.
The girl herself, in giving evidence, told a harrowing story of her being decoyed and sold into slavery, of her life in Shanghai and of the cruelty which had been shown to her after she became ill.
The woman to whom the girl had gone after making her escape ap peared in court and identified the chains and locks which were on the girl's wrists when she had come to witness.
Accused was sentenced to 36 months' imprisonment and the girl was sent to the Door of Hope.
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