Man Gaoled For Viciously Thrashing Son
THAMES, Dec. 7. A vicious and prolonged series of assaults was how Mr. W. H. Frreman, S.M., summed up the thrashing which Ronald James Pearson Fisher gave his seven-year-old son, Trevor. . Sorgeant N. Baylis stated that m response to a telephone call I from the headmaster of the school " to the effect that one of his pupils, Trevor Fisher, showed evidence of having been severely thrashed and that he thought it a matter for ihe police, two constables proceeded to the school and then brought the boy to a doctor, who ordered him to hospital. The boy was extensively bruised from the nape of his neck across the buttocks to the back of his knees. In court the father said that the boy had been naughty and he nad thrashed him, but had hever mtended it to be so severe. After an adjournment, during which the magistrate examined the boy, Fisher was severely- reprimanded by the magistrate and sentencecl to two months' imprisonment. An order was made that the child be placed under the dhilcl Weifare Department, the Boy to live with, his grandmother.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 December 1949, Page 5
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