Story out of Hendersonville, North Carolina:
A former Little League baseball coach charged with spanking the bare bottoms of four boys without their parents’ permission pleaded guilty in Henderson County Superior Court on Tuesday.
Investigators charged 33-year-old Jonathan Shawn Russell, of Hendersonville, with four misdemeanor counts of assault on a child under 12, saying the children were spanked by him at his residence.
A judge sentenced Russell to 60 days in the Henderson County jail followed by 18 months of supervised probation. He could have been ordered to spend up to 300 days in jail, according to Henderson County Superior Court Judge Bradley Letts.
The victims at the time ranged in ages from 8 to 9, according to arrest warrants. Russell was accused of “pulling down child victim’s pants and his underwear and spanking him on his buttocks multiple times with his hands,” according to warrants.
Russell said he spanked his own children in addition to the four victims based on a methodology from the book, "Shepherding a Child's Heart," a manual on child rearing.
In one chapter the book says, "If you fail to spank, you don't take God seriously and don't love your child enough," Russell read aloud on the stand. Cont.
Story from - Citezen-Times
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