Former Gloriavale dairy farm manager sentenced to community detention for beating two boys: RNZ

By Jean Edwards | RNZ |

A judge has told former Gloriavale dairy farm manager John Ready he has “spent enough of his life in chains” in sentencing him to community detention for beating two 11-year-old boys.

Ready, 45, hit the boys with a metal fence implement to discourage disobedience while he was supervising them working on one of the Christian community’s farms after school in 2015.

He had earlier pleaded guilty to two charges of assault with a weapon at Timaru District Court.

The court heard Ready was unhappy with the boys’ work, so made them face a wall and hit them with a fencing implement he was using to move the cows along.

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