A 10-year-old boy was woken by his father next to a freshly dug grave, and told to choose between him or his mother going in
A 10-year-old boy was woken by his father next to a freshly dug grave, and told to choose between him or his mother going in
13 July 2024
When the young boy didn't respond, the father kicked and punched him, before taking to his head with a cricket bat.
Open Justice reports New Plymouth District Court Judge Spear called the chilling domestic violence case one of the worst he'd seen.
The incident was just one, in a string of savage beatings the 58-year-old Taranaki man subjected his former partner and their son to
The man, who's under name-suppression to protect his son's identity, has been sentenced to prison for 12 years and seven months.
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