FATHER’S BRUTAL ASSAULT
THRASHING OF SMALL SON.
SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association. / Timaru, Oct. 17. ’ In what was described by the police inspector and the child welfare officer as the worst case in their experience, James Hardy Smith, labourer, was sentenced to the maximum penalty, six months’ .imprisonment, for a brutal assault on his son, aged 10. The evidence disclosed that the boy was cruelly marked as the result of a thrashing with a rubber strap. His injuries were attended to in hospital.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1933, Page 6
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