1.17 Targeted Topic: When the SPCA Saved a Child

Published: June 11, 2018, 8:45 a.m.

b'This "Targeted Topic" is a standalone episode -- you don\'t need to have listened to rest of Season 1! \\u201cThe saddest part of her story was written on her face in its look of suppression and misery, the face of a child unloved.\\u201d I\\u2019m going to take you back to 1874, before there were any social agencies dedicated to the welfare of children.\\xa0Once upon a time in New York, when Etta Wheeler wanted to save an abused child, she turned to the only organization she could find that would help.\\xa0 The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.\\xa0 You see, children and spouses had no legal protection, but animals did.\\xa0And through creative thinking, one woman, with the help of a philanthropist, began a movement that hoped to change the world, one child at a time. Promo: Killafornia Dreaming\\xa0https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/killafornia-dreaming-true-crime-tales-from-golden-state/id1250294822?mt=2\\xa0 Facebook group: \\xa0https://www.facebook.com/groups/TargetedPodcast/ website:\\xa0 www.targetedpodcast.com email:\\xa0 \\xa0 \\xa0targetedpodcast@gmail.com Twitter:\\xa0 @targetedpodcast \\xa0 Merchandise: \\xa0https://www.teepublic.com/user/targetedpodcast \\xa0 Markel, Howard.\\xa0 Case Shined First Light on Abuse of Children.\\xa0 NY Times, 14 December 2009.\\xa0 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/health/15abus.html "Mary Ellen Wilson." Faces of Child Abuse. Retrieved 4 June 2018.\\xa0http://www.facesofchildabuse.org/mary-ellen-wilson.html Smith, Lewis J. (1889) \\u201cRecent Improvements in Infant Feeding.\\u201d\\xa0 Transactions of the American Pediatric Society, Volume 1. \\xa0 "The Story of Mary Ellen." \\xa0(n.d.) \\xa0American Humane Association, \\xa0Albany, NY. \\xa0\\xa0

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