[lit-ideas] Re: Pratts
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- Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 15:50:09 +0200
On 31-May-11, at 12:18 PM, David Ritchie wrote:
On May 31, 2011, at 1:33 AM, cblists@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Does any list member know more?
Is this the reference you had in mind?
http://familylaws.uslegal.com/child-abuse-child-safety-and-discipline/history/
The following paragraph from that site does scorrespond to the story I
heard or read (some decades ago now):
In the early 1870s, child abuse captured the nation’s attention with
news that an eight-year-old orphan named Mary Ellen Wilson was
suffering daily whippings and beatings at her foster home. With no
organization in existence to protect abused children, the orphan’s
plight fell to attorneys for the American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). These attorneys argued that laws
protecting animals from abuse should not be greater than laws
protecting children. Mary Ellen Wilson’s case went before a judge, who
convicted the foster mother of assault and battery and gave her a one
year sentence. More significantly, the orphan’s case generated enough
outrage over child abuse that in 1874, citizens formed the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Thanks, David.
Chris Bruce,
Kiel, Germany
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