BURNED WITH HOT POKER.
FATHER ILL-TREATS CHILD.
A. and N.Z.
SYDNEY, Nov. 0.
A man named Fred Brown, of Reservoir, was sentenced to three months in gaol for ill-treating his son, aged 10. The child, in evidencp, pnid his father was very ' cruel, and had frequently burned the tender parts of the boy's body with a red-hot poker, after first making a younger son, aged six, hold his victim.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 11
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