Gloriavale farm manager struck boys with metal fence standard: Timaru Herald
By Doug Sail | Timaru Herald |
A former Gloriavale Christian Community farm manager, who now lives in Timaru, has admitted hitting two 11-year-old boys several times with a metal fence standard as he believed they had disobeyed him.
John Ready ordered his victims to face a wall and raise their hands before he struck them “one after another in the area around their bottoms with the metal break fence standard”, according to the summary of facts presented in the Timaru District Court on Tuesday.
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