Child’s Murder in Minnesota
I read in horror your story of the Jurgens case. I don’t care how nascent the “battered-child syndrome” was in 1965, there is no way in God’s name some of the acts observed by relatives and neighbors described in their testimony should have been allowed to continue. Those who bore witness are also guilty of murder. Perhaps they had not heard of child abuse, neglect or battery but the practice of infanticide is as old as the hills.
ROBIN FRANCK
San Diego
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