Police say Bertolini used a belt to strike a 10-year-old boy five times on the back side of his right leg with such force that it caused welts, bruises, noticeable discoloration, and excessive pain.
A Vancouver minister who said he was “divinely ordained to chastise children” is accused of physically abusing a 6-year-old child at church for “disrespectful behavior,” police said. Gabriel Hardy, a ...