Constance Kent

Constance Kent

Constance Emily Kent (6 February 1844 – 10 April 1944) was an English woman who confessed to a notorious child murder that took place when she was sixteen years old. The Constance Kent case in 1865 raised a series of questions about priest-penitent privilege in England. In later life Kent changed her name to Ruth Emilie Kaye.

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