Father sentenced to five years for spanking children but escapes jail time
A father has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, wholly suspended, after admitting to spanking his three children as a form of discipline.
The Centurion father, 36, heard his fate in the Pretoria magistrate's court after he pleaded guilty in February for disciplining his children by hitting them with a belt...
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