CRUEL ASSAULT BY FATHER

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20988, 17 October 1933, Page 15

CRUEL ASSAULT BY FATHER

SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT i isrKciAi. -r» 'rat: i-ci'ss.. | TIMARU, October iti. -This is one of the worst cases of j crucltv to a child I have ever heard ; of He must be a brute indeed, and ■, deserves severe punishment," scud Insuector A. S. Bird in the Magistrate's . Court this afternoon, when prosecuting James Hardy Smith, a abourcr who Pleaded guilty to assaulting ms | Cuming, the Child Welfare | Offi—r stated that a witness had ex- , amined the bov and found him to be | badly bruised,"the skin being broken, in several places. , | Dr D. H. Moir said that the boy had between 20 and 30 livid marks on his body. The bruises; were extremely severe, more so than the witne« had seen as the result of many j motor accidents. 'Remarking that there were no ■ : deeming features, the Mag!sate '-vh , C R Orr Walker) sentenced the at- < c-used to a maximum term oi six , months' imprisonment. ;