This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...of a child called Eliza, who had just turned thirteen, and proposed the transaction to her. Mrs. Armstrong, on receiving 3, allowed her daughter to be handed over to the procuress. "The child was brought to me. I was assured positively that the transaction was complete, that the mother had consented to the sale of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...of a child called Eliza, who had just turned thirteen, and proposed the transaction to her. Mrs. Armstrong, on receiving 3, allowed her daughter to be handed over to the procuress. "The child was brought to me. I was assured positively that the transaction was complete, that the mother had consented to the sale of the girl for vicious purposes; and if I had been an ordinary vicious man I could have taken the child to any house of ill-fame I liked and abused her as much as I pleased. I took the child into a house of ill-fame, the nature of which she knew nothing. She only knew she was going to the house of a kind gentleman. She went to bed. "I entered the room to see if she were asleep, when she woke up with a startled cry, 'There is a man in the room.' I promptly retired, and a lady of the Salvation Army removed her at once to a nursing home, where she was examined by a doctor, who certified that she had suffered no injury of any kind, and was then taken next morning to Paris, where the Salvation Army took care of her. "That was only the first of a long series of similar transactions, which proved beyond all question the readiness of procurers and procuresses to obtain young girls for vicious purposes in return for payment, varying from i to 5; that children over thirteen were received without any protest by the keepers of houses of ill-fame, or assignation houses; and that, in short, was the whole devil's business which was going on, without let or hindrance, under the notice of the police and the shadows of our churches and chapels." As a result of his investigations, Mr. Stead published in the Pall Mall Gazette for six days a series of articles, entitled, "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon," in which he ...
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