Liverpool Mercury: Friday August 2nd, 1878: Issue 9532

Some startling revelations were made during the hearing of a baby farming case at Birmingham police court, yesterday. A midwife named Ann Pinsent was charged with concealing the birth of a child born in her house, the mother being unmarried. Since her arrest the skeletons of eleven children have been found interred in a garden adjoining the house. She was remanded for a week. 


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