Abortion in Aberdeen Street
On 7 May 1940, Sylvia Green plead guilty at the Perth Supreme Court to a charge of procuring an abortion on herself. Green, a 20-year-old married woman who resided with her unemployed husband in Aberdeen Street, said her husband was a jealous and lazy man who had failed to support her. The crime was discovered as after procuring the miscarriage she had left the remains to burn in the kitchen stove. Green was released on a hundred pound bond, which several people, including an adjutant of the Salvation Army, offered to pay.
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