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12/09/2004: "Banned from his family home for 6 months for smacking child"
I thought this was a bit crazy. "A father who was banned from his family home for six months after smacking his son in public has been allowed back after admitting common assault." The man in question smacked his son on the backside once but was seen by a policeman and arrested. The slap certainly seems to have been over the top but according to the defence the child was misbehaving and had "run out in front of a car", "the parents were at the end of their tether". The whole family seems to have paid the price, the man was not allowed to go home, see his son unsupervised or even talk to him on the phone and the man's girlfriend had two raise two children on her own for the six months including a new born baby. Not right I say.