Girls sentenced to SF's Magdalen Asylum could leave at age 18, *if* someone petitioned the court. Today in 1881, Emma Kennedy asked for Johannah Crenin's release -- after Johanna's father failed to. But Johannah said even The Mag was better than living with her father. Yikes. pic.twitter.com/GA1VMVMWFe
— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) September 17, 2022