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A father was arrested for smacking his six-year-old daughter so hard he left bruises – because she would not go to bed.
The offence happened before the change in the law which banned smacking, but Sheriff Graham Buchanan said the man’s actions went “considerably over the score” at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Thursday.
The dad, who is not being named to avoid identifying the child, pled guilty to a charge of assault to injury over the incident, which happened on May 22.