4-year-old boy ’beaten for stopping star

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9 months supervision seems like a really lenient sentence for assaulting a child    Hardly a deterrent.

imagine if he had been able to use reasonable force as a defence - he might have got off scott free!

LittleBug wrote: I know this poor boy. His dad is furious at the sentence. The article that I read had a note at the bottom about a drunk driver getting a much heavier sentence.

I would be so upset if I was the father. The sentence is a joke. And Linzy is right, you would get more for kicking a dog. I'm not against animal protection, but seriously, wtf.

What if it had not of come to light would it of ended in another child murder down the track.

I think the mother needs charges laid against her for not protecting her child....why do these women put these loser men before their children....

I look at my 4yr old boy & could not imagine something like that happening to him...so sad that another little child is abused & let down but adults in his family...& it is time the justice system makes an example out of scum that abuse children..

NZ has such an embrassing record when it comes to the treatment of our most precious babies. The most dangerous person in a child's life is often it's mother's boyfriend. The punishment should fit the crime, what does 4 months say about how much we value this little boy. We are creating huge long term cost to the country every time we allow our children to be maltreated.