Ex-Gloriavale shepherd sentenced to community detention has spent enough time ‘living in chains’, judge says: Stuff

By Doug Sail | Stuff |

A former Gloriavale Christian Community farm manager was told he had spent enough of his life “living in chains” as he was sentenced to community detention for his historic assault on two 11-year-old boys.

Judge Campbell Savage told John Ready in the Timaru District Court on Tuesday that the assault with a metal fence standard on the boys had caused significant bruising and discomfort that lasted several days.

“They had been struck to discourage disobedience,” Judge Savage said.

The 45-year-old, born and raised at the West Coast community, now works on a Timaru District dairy farm and knew only the rules and values he had been raised with, Judge Savage said.

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