HOT IRON ON SON ALLEGED
Statements that a father had placed a hot flat iron on his 12-year-old son’s bare flesh, were mad© befn.-e Mr Justice Halse 'Rogers, in the Divorce Court. Ronald Leopold Decent, commercial traveller, of Parramatta, who asked for a divorce from Mary Isobel Decent (formerly Richardson) on the grounds of desertion, denied that he had used the iron with the intention of burning his son. “The boys were in the bathroom and were splashing the water about on the floor,” he said. “I wanted to teach them a lesson, and I w r ent in with the iron and touched my son with it. His body was wet, and it left a red mark, but it did not burn him. “It was not my intention to be cruel to him in any way. It was just an incident.” Mrs Decent,, who cross-petitioned for divorce on the grounds of constructive desertion, alleged that Do • cent had been guilty of cruelty and drunkenness. His conduct w'as such that she could not live with him, she said. The judge granted Mrs Decent a decree nisi.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 13092, 20 July 1940, Page 2
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186HOT IRON ON SON ALLEGED Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 13092, 20 July 1940, Page 2
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