A man has been given a 150-day suspended sentence for hosing down his eight-year-old son with cold water as punishment for urinating in the house.
At Margate Magistrates Court the man, who is in his 30s and cannot be named for legal reasons, had admitted an act of cruelty towards a child.
A woman called police after witnessing the incident in Canterbury.
The boy’s ordeal lasted for more than two hours as his father punished him for going to the toilet in a drawer.
The court heard the police found the boy in the front garden cold and shivering in September 2009.
A woman visiting a friend raised the alarm after hearing the child screaming loudly and wailing so much that she at first thought it was an animal.
The child has now been taken into local authority care.
The father’s 150-day sentence is suspended for two years.
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