Concealing Dead Bastards Is Forbidden

Concealing Dead Bastards Is Forbidden

  All yer kids need to be recorded. Not just yer noble young uns! If ‘n ye gots a bastard an ye been too shamed to come forward. It’ll be a bad punishment!

§21-863. Concealing stillbirth or death of child.

Every woman who endeavors either by herself or by the aid of others to conceal the stillbirth of an issue of her body, which if born alive would be a bastard, or the death of any such issue under the age of two (2) years, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year, or by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both.

R.L.1910, § 2438.