Stralsund: Penalty for Santa Claus for Beatings for a Four-Year-Old

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For decades Udo J. has dressed up as Santa Claus to make children happy. Now he was on trial for punishing a little boy with a rod. The trial was over quickly.

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A four-year-old stretches his tongue out to Santa Claus, and already he strikes with the rod. In court it turns out that physical punishment has been part of the job for the defendant for 56 years.

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A German Santa Claus must pay 4,000 euros, according to a judge, for hitting a 4-year-old child with a rod. The 62-year-old man hit the toddler with a pine branch last November at the Christmas market in Stralsund, northern Germany. The man allegedly wanted to teach the child some respect, because the child stuck his tongue out at him several times and called him stupid. In doing so, Santa Claus quoted the German version of the motto "the naught…

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A 62-year-old had beaten a four-year-old at a Christmas market.