While child-safety advocates have ... he lashes her with a belt across the legs. At one point he leaves the darkened room, then returns to resume the lashing. “In my mind I haven’t done ...

DECATUR — Christopher M. Johnson, the Decatur man who police say borrowed a belt so he could punish a 12-year-old girl by whipping her across the thigh, was sentenced to 12 months probation and ...

They have the option to institute a safety plan if they’re not going to ... “Maybe, if you have a 2-year-old, you don’t beat them with a belt. Most people think that’s unreasonable.

(Shutterstock) An off-duty NYPD police officer has been arrested for slapping and whipping her 10-year-old son with a belt and a cell phone phone charging cable, officials said Thursday.

Gabriel Hardy, a 42-year-old minister at a church operating in a Hazel Dell neighborhood home, allegedly whipped the child with a belt repeatedly on Sunday, according to the Clark County Sheriff ...

A La Crosse man could face up to six years in prison over an accusation he hit an 8-year-old boy with a belt. John W. Bowman, 44, was charged Friday in La Crosse County Circuit Court with physical ...