By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A 22-year-old man was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday after admitting to beating his girlfriend’s seven-year-old son with a broomstick earlier this week as “discipline” for accidentally breaking a television.
Assistant Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans arraigned Richard Fox on a charge of cruelty to children.
Fox reportedly beat the boy on March 16 in New Providence, striking him multiple times with a broomstick.
The child was left with bruises on both legs and his right hand and was seen limping after the incident.
Fox pleaded guilty and insisted he was disciplining the child.
Magistrate Vogt-Evans strongly admonished him for harming the boy.
Fox was sentenced to six months at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
Inspector Wilkinson prosecuted the case.
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