There are usually two or more parties in cases of immorality, and it is well if the penalty therefore be shared, in the opinion of Mrs. Anna B. Lewis, superintendent of public welfare for Pasquotank County.
In Elizabeth City recently there was a case n which a young man was trying to prove that he was not the father of a girl’s illegitimate child by establishing the fact that she had been promiscuous. Several other young men testified that they had had immoral relations with the girl, and that, hence, the paternity of the child was uncertain. Whereupon, Mrs. Lewis had suit brought on charges of prostitution against all the young men who had testified against the girl, and won her case.
Such turning of tables is unusual, as the only penalty with which such witnesses are generally connected is that which their testimony inflicts upon the woman.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 15, 1924
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