The Audience of Cantabria has sentenced two years and nine months in jail to a father who he punched his 5-year-old son because he wouldn't let him sleep.
The aggression took place in his home in April last year. The defendant lived with his wife and four minor children.
One night one of the children, 5, made a noise and disturbed his sleeping father. He got up and hit him on the head, reaching his left eye and face.
The boy's mother wanted to take him to the hospital but when he was on the stairs of the building the defendant prevented him by taking her by the arm and hitting her against the steps of the stairs.
The boy suffered a bruise on his face and an edema on his head and left eye, so he spent two days in a hospital. The facts were reported by the child's grandmother instead of the mother, frightened by the constant threats of her husband.
Like the image that I put on you and that I already used in a previous post, violence usually come back to oneself. Sometimes he does it in the form of a penalty, sometimes in the form of resentment or misunderstanding of those who receive it and sometimes even through his own guilt.
Unfortunately in that drawing I miss a fourth vignette that would show that the boomerang returns against the child making a dent in his person. Some will call it trauma, others will not dare to say it and many will say that they are bullshit, that nothing happens. I do believe that, to a greater or lesser extent, hitting children affects their personality.
Violence is a way to discharge the contained anger. There are less harmful ways to control those nerves and that accumulated anger. It is the job of adults to find them to avoid such a discharge of cruelty.
