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What you have done is committed crimes against your family
An Ashburton man has been sentenced to 10 months home detention after admitting six charges of assaulting his children and two of assaulting his wife. One of the assaults involved the man holding his son by his legs and swinging him into a wall. He struck his daughter with a Bible and repeatedly slapped her in a separate incident and also choked
his wife, the Ashburton District Court was told this week. The man said he was disciplining his family, actions that would be acceptable in his home country. Judge Ian Mill disagreed. “What you have done is committed crimes against your family.” The wife and children no longer live in Ashburton and are pro-
tected. A probation officer’s report said the man showed little remorse though defence lawyer Josh Lucas said that remorse might not have been obvious because of a language barrier. Judge Mill said the man’s wife and two children had been victims of his abuse for the past five years. “On an occasion when one of
the children kicked a ball and smashed a window you ordered the children into the bedroom, you picked up your son and threw him on to the bed then took hold of his legs and swung him around, striking him against a wall.
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