Judges skeptical of child-abuse appeal

Thursday, October 2, 2014

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Judges on Missouri's highest court appeared skeptical Wednesday about an appeal from a Springfield, Missouri, man convicted of abusing his teenage son by limiting his food and locking him in a small bathroom at a church where the family was living.

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