"SOUTH CHINA MORNING FOST"
29th March, 1929.
SALE OF A CHILD.
Alleged Cruelty to an adopted Daughter.
MOTHER'S ANXIETY.
a case of alle ged cruelty to an adopted daughter was
brought to the attention of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society last
Tuesday. The details are given below..
Wu Kwai-ning, the mother of the child, came all the way
from Shun Tak district, Awangtung, upon receipt of information
from a friend, to lodge a complaint of ill-treatment.
According to u Kwai-hing, her six-year-old child was sold
on the twenty-third days of the twelfth moon last Chinese
year (February 2, 1929) as an adopted child for po0. It was
specified in the sale note tna: the child would be redeemable
at $120.
A friend of the child's mother saw the girl being ill-
treated and wrote to the mother in Shun Tak suggesting that,
in order to put an end to the cruelty, sometning should be
done at once to redeem the child. After some trouble the
mother got in touch with the child and found marks of cruelty.
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