Taranaki teen father sentenced to home detention for breaking newborn’s ribs, bruising his body

A teen father has admitted to physically assaulting his newborn son, breaking the baby’s ribs and bruising his face, due to feeling “tired and overwhelmed” from night feeds, while the mother struggled with post-natal depression. Reports indicate that the mother occasionally heard the father telling the baby to “shut up” during these difficult nights.

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