Wholesale Baby Farming: Discovery of Eleven Skeletons: At the Birmingham Police Court yesterday, Ann Pinsent, a midwife, living at Nechells, was charged with concealing the birth of a child of an unmarried woman, who had been confined at her house. Mr. Jesse Herbert (instructed by the Town Clerk) prosecuted and explained that since the prisoner was first arrested some extraordinary revelations had been made, and skeletons of no fewer than eleven infants had already been found buried in a garden adjoining the prisoner’s house. (sensation). The learned counsel added that the body of the child in question had not yet been found, but it was known to have been born alive, and seen alive some hours afterwards. On the following day the child was alleged by the prisoner to have died from convulsions. Prisoner was remanded for a week.
[See also Leeds Mercury & Manchester Times, 3rd August]
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