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Dec 15, 2022 · Etta Wheeler, a caseworker and Methodist missionary, investigated. When she knocked on the door in December 1873, Wheeler was horrified when she saw a “pale, thin child, barefoot, in a thin, scanty dress.”. Mary Ellen Wilson, 9 years old at the time, was the size of a 5-year-old.
Mary Ellen Wilson (March 1864 – October 30, 1956), also called Mary Ellen McCormack, was an American victim of child abuse whose case led to the creation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first child protection agency in the world. [1]
Sep 18, 2024 · Mary Ellen Wilson was a young girl from New York City whose case of abuse led to the creation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1874. Before her case, laws protecting children from abuse were virtually nonexistent.
Jun 29, 2018 · Though the little girl may look not older than five on the 1874 photograph, Mary Ellen is probably nine or ten years old. For years, the person who was assigned her guardian treated her horribly. Mary was malnourished and repeatedly beaten.
Oct 19, 2017 · Mary Ellen was born in 1864 to a family in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. When her dad died, her mother tried make ends meet, taking one job after another to the point of realizing that she could no longer support Mary. The girl was handed into the custody of a woman named Mary Score.
Aug 1, 2006 · Many of the child development, psychology, and sociology textbooks in the United States include a black and white photograph that was taken in 1874 of Mary Ellen, the first successfully prosecuted case of child abuse in America (New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 2006).
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Sep 22, 2017 · A social worker named Marietta “Etta” Wheeler first saw Mary Ellen in the winter of 1873. The child looked 5, but turned out to be 9. “She stood washing dishes, struggling with a frying pan ...
