The Archive · 1936

Father Kills Daughter

Kau Oong-bing, a boxer and a showman in one of Shanghai's Chinese amusement resorts, was sentenced to six months imprisonment by the Pirst Special District Court on Aug. 17 fon a charge of negligence cotising the Geath of hhis four-month old daughter 17 Whashing Alleyway, off Whashing Road, on August 8, Kau was arrested by police on informa tion of his wife who reported that her husband had administered opium to. their four-month old daughter, resulting in her death. At the police station, the accused admitted having given his daughter opium to take, but said this was because his daughter was suffering from diarrhoea and he had given her opium ash with the Hope that his daughter would be cured of diarrhoea, After passing the sentence on the accused, the Judge mentioned the sentence would be suspended for two years,

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