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OK it doesn't quite fit the category because the mum was being equally badl abused but it seems like behaviour from the father guaranteed to screw the lad up:
http://www.thecourier.com.au/detail...egory=general news&story_id=284132&y=2004&m=2
Words fail me they really do
Emps
Bizarre and brutal abuses alleged
Friday, 6 February 2004
A FORMER Warrnambool man forced a young mother-of-two to eat cow manure, drink motor oil and sleep outside her bedroom window, a jury was told yesterday.
Graeme Slattery, 42, also made the woman's young son sit in a car for at least three hours wearing spraypainted sunglasses that blocked his vision and dig a cement pole out of the ground with a small garden spade while he watched, a jury was told.
Crown prosecutor Peter Faris QC, addressing the jury for the first time in the Ballarat County Court, said evidence would show Mr Slattery subjected the woman and her two children to "brutal and violent conduct".
"This is a case that you might find strange or even bizarre," he said.
"It's a case of ... systematic brutality which turned her into a slave who did whatever he told her to do."
Mr Faris said Mr Slattery met the victim at a Melbourne hotel in September, 1996, and the pair started dating.
He said Mr Slattery told the victim he lived at Frankston with his sister, who was really his wife.
Mr Faris said the alleged abuse started three months later when the victim's Narre Warren house was burgled.
Mr Slattery struck the woman on the leg with a fire poker, punched her in the face and hit her with a broomstick so hard that it broke, he said.
Mr Faris said Mr Slattery's treatment of the victim reached a point where he controlled "what she wore and what she ate".
He said Mr Slattery told the victim to invest 00 in a diamond ring, which she never received, and later stripped her home of all its fittings.
In a recorded interview, the victim's son said Mr Slattery had flushed his head down a toilet, poured water on his head while he was in bed and forced him to drink water while lying on the ground "like medieval torture".
"On cold winter days, he would make me go out the back and spray me with the garden hose for no reason," he also said.
Mr Slattery has pleaded not guilty to 69 charges, including rape, indecent assault, intentionally causing injury and blackmail.
The trial, before Judge Graeme Crossley, continues today.
http://www.thecourier.com.au/detail...egory=general news&story_id=284132&y=2004&m=2
Words fail me they really do
Emps