CRUELTY TO CHILDREN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Please
permit a reply to the query raised by Mrs. Hamilton in your issue of the 14th inst. Whenever the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is moved to the extremity of prosecution, when necessity arises it provides for the future of the child on behalf of whom the prosecution is instigated. With regard to the recent terrible Warrington case, to which your correspondent refers, the Society, with the co-operation of the Guardians, has arranged for the adoption of the little victim by the local Guardians. In no circumstances will the child be allowed to return to his brutal parents, the magis. trate having transferred authority from the parents to the Board, who will have legal authority over the child until he is eighteen years of age.—I am, Sir, &c., ROBERT J. PARR.
(Director, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.) Victory House, Leicester Square, London, W.C. 2.
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