User:Auric/Rosebud Baby case

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The Rosebud Baby case was a noted criminal case during the 1920s in Los Angeles. The owner of a nickelodeon was charged and convicted of fathering a baby on an underage patron.


During the case, Mabel Willebrandt, a reformer, exhorted police to "prevent owners of nickelodeons from taking little girls who came to the Saturday morning movies behind the silver screen and getting them with babies, rosebud or otherwise."[1]

A special squad of police was charged with doing so.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rasmussen, Cecilia (July 2, 2000). "The Pioneering Career of 'Prohibition Portia'". Los Angeles Times. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
  2. ^ St. Johns, Adela Rogers (1969). The Honeycomb. Doubleday. p. 16.

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