FULL TEXT: The papers in Krakow report from Przemysl
about a married couple, who have come on the track of many years of
angel-making. A certain Jacek Duplaca, with his illegitimate wife, had long
practiced the education of foreign children for a fee, and it happened
repeatedly that the children entrusted to them died after a few months. The
neighborhood knew that the children were being maltreated; but as there was no
evidence, the couple continued to pursue his trade until a few weeks before
Duplaca took in the son of a service nurse. One often heard the miserable
screaming child, who looked increasingly poor and physically faded away under
the eyes of the people. In the presence of the couple nobody ventured to enter
his apartment. When Duplaca went with the woman into the city, they sent for
the police, who opened the apartment and found the boy with his hands bound and
with a gag in his mouth, with many traces of maltreatment and open wounds all
over his body. It was difficult to bring the unconscious child back to life and
transport him to the hospital. Jacek Duplaca, however, got wind of the
incident. Before returning home, both he and his wife fled. They are still
being looking for, in vain.
["Galician Angelmaking." Bukovinaer
Rundschau (Chernivtsi, Ukraine), July 30. 1901. p. 3]
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Przemyśl
is a city in south-eastern Poland with 66,756 inhabitants, as of June 2009. In
1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was previously the
capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship. Przemyśl owes its long and rich history to the
advantages of its geographic location.
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FULL
TEXT: Die Blätter in Krakau berichten aus Przemysl von einem Ehepaar, dem man
auf die Spur langjähriger Engelmacherei gekommen ist. Ein gewisser Jacek
Duplaca mit seiner illegitimen Frau betrieb schon lange gewerbsmäßig die
Erziehung fremder Kinder gegen Entgelt, und es geschah wiederholt, daß die
ihnen anvertrauten Kinder nach einigen Monaten starben. Die Nachbarschaft
wußte, daß die Kinder mißhandelt wurden; da man aber keine Beweise hatte trieb
das Paar sein Gewerbe weiter, bis vor einigen Wochen Duplaca den Sohneiner
Dienstniagd zur Pflege übernahm. Man hörte oft das jämmerliche Geschreides
Kindes, das immer schlechter aussah und unter den Augen der Leute körperlich
dahinschwand. In Anwesenheit des Paar es wagte aber Niemand dessen Wohnung zu
betreten. Als nun Duplaca mit der Frau in die Stadt ging, schickte man nach der
Polizei, welche die Wohnung öffnete und den Knaben mit gefesselten Händen und
mit einem Knebel im Munde, mit vielen Spuren von Mißhandlungen und offenen
Wunden am ganzen Körper fand. Man konnte das ohnmächtige Kind nur mit Mühe zum
Leben erwecken und ins Spital transportiren. Duplaca erhielt jedoch vor dem
Vorfalle Wind. Ehe er heimkehrte, und suchte mit seiner Frau das Weite. Man
sucht bis jetzt vergeblich seine Spur.
[“Galizische
Engekmacherei “ Bukowinaer Rundschau (Czernowitz, Ukraine), 30. Juli. 1901. p.
3]
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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care
providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.
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