Assertion: midwife | /r/HasProperty | chastened for such offenses
Facets:
value: occasionally
type: DEGREE
value: as baptizing fetuses
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Although midwives were occasionally chastened for such offenses as baptizing fetuses that seem to have been born dead (likely because of Christian parental concerns for the child's immortal soul), thus far the only known case of a midwife being prosecuted for the death of a woman under her care is the 1403 trial of a Jewish midwife in the French city of Marseille, Floreta d'Ays.