Father who bashed daughter with rolling pin gets bond
A FATHER who bashed his teenage daughter in a 20-minute attack “to get the truth” about whether she had a boyfriend has been given a good behaviour bond.
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A FATHER who bashed his teenage daughter with a rolling pin in a “sustained and nasty” attack because he thought she was seeing a boy has been given a good behaviour bond.
The man, whom we’ve chosen not to name, hit the 16-year-old repeatedly for 20 minutes in an effort “to get the truth” out of her, a court has heard.
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The registered nurse told police he knew where to strike his daughter to cause her pain but not break any of her bones.
He pleaded guilty to an assault charge at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning.
The court heard about 1pm on June 29 a young man came to the door of their southeast suburbs family home.
The father accused his daughter of “having a boy over” and demanded to know what was happening.
After he sent the young man away, he went into the kitchen, got a rolling pin out of a drawer and hit his daughter about the arms, hips and legs.
He would stop only to ask questions before again continuing the assault.
But someone had called the police, and they arrived a short time later.
The girl was taken to hospital by ambulance suffering from severe bruising.
The father told police he wanted to protect his daughter “from getting pregnant” and didn’t want her to have “sexual relations”, and hit her because he “wanted to know the truth”.
After his arrest a family violence order was enacted and the Department of Health and Human Services got involved.
The man was forced to leave the family home for several weeks, but is now back there with the approval of the daughter.
His defence lawyer said the dad was remorseful and accepted it was “an ugly incident” and since then he had started a men’s behaviour program and had psychiatrist counselling.
Magistrate Tara Hartnett said the assault, while completely out of character, was “very, very serious”.
“It was a really nasty incident …. (it was) a sustained attack for 20 minutes,” she said.
“Your mindset was to get information … it essentially involved the use of a weapon.”
She said he “appeared to be a good man”, and accepted it was very unlikely to happen again.
He was given a two-year good behaviour bond, must undergo counselling and pay $1500 into the court fund.
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