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IRVINE, Calif. — An Irvine couple who suspected their 15-year-old son of smoking turned to a man thought to be relied on in their church to violently discipline children, authorities said.
The parents asked Paul Kim, 39, to discipline their son after finding a lighter in his possession, dropping the boy off at Kim’s Chino Hills home with permission for the beating, said San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokesperson Cindy Bachmann on Saturday.
Kim hit the child with a metal pole about a dozen times, causing severe bruising on his legs, Bachmann said. Kim faces a felony charge of willful cruelty to a child.
