Builder who ‘farted on boy’s face’ stands trial for child cruelty

‘Roofer Gary McKenzie, 22, is accused of farting on a child’s face. He denies the charge on the grounds it would be “disgusting and disgraceful.”
McKenzie is also accused of punching the child in the arm and sucking his eye while play fighting, Teesside Crown Court heard.
The official charge sheet seen by the Northern Echo newspaper states that McKenzie “willfully ill-treated the child, namely by breaking wind in his face, in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or injury to health contrary to section 1(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.”’
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