This is absolulely disgraceful! What kind of message is this sending out to both women and the men who beat them, that all they'll get is a slap on the wrist? This man should have been jailed, his son and wife taken into care - appalling!
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A man who drunkenly beat his wife before burning his four-year-old son’s hand on an oven has been fined dhs2,000. The man returned home in Al Quoz after drinking whisky and became angry that his wife had not sent their son to school.
He beat the 26-year-old woman before asking the son if he had been to school. The terrified boy told him that he had, the court heard, which only angered the man more.
He hit the four-year-old in the face for lying, before pressing the palm of his right hand onto the oven hob, leaving the boy burned.