Liverpool Mail: Saturday 3rd August 1878

… Some startling revelations were made during the hearing of a baby-farming case at the Birmingham police Court. 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 adjacent to the house. She was remanded for a week. …


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