FLOGGING A BOY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 271, 9 June 1888, Page 3

FLOGGING A BOY.

A ease heard in the Redfern Police Court, f-ays the "Sydney Evening News," disclosed very great cruelty on the part of an uncle low aids his nephew. For having "wagged it " Irom school, the boy was beaten by him so severely that, according to the testimony of a medical man who had examined the lad, his body exhibited one mass of biuihes from the shoulders to the heels. Besides being lashed with a strap and a whip, the boy had been shoved into a cask, and had been tied up with his hands above his head, with his feet fast at the same time. The torture to which he was subjected while in this position is sufficiently huggc-ted by the statement that some boys came and put bricks under his feet to relieve the pain in his arms. The explanation or deience put foiwaid that the punishment was not excewve was almost on a par with the ruilianly costeimongei &idea with regard to his >\ ifc, when he knocked hei down and jumped on her, and met indignant remonstrances at hi-, conduct with the calm assurance that there was nothing to make a fuss about, for he knew " what she could bear to a blow.' 1 In fining the defendant in the case in question £2 and costs the Bench, it is to be thought, let him oil a good deal eheapei than might ha\ c been expected, klow o\ ci , as it does not appear that the boy, though treated with such uncalled iorharshness, has suitei ed any serious injury thereby, peihaps the fine whHi th j iricle had to pay may ser\e well enou_h lo impress on him, and others of his -orl, the necessity of drawing the line better between wholesome discipline for the j'oung and punishment which takes the shape of positive brutality.