I say friend it is actually the daughter and son in law of my Mums best friend.
The story is: the ds is FIVE - cant go into why the child was naughty just incase the mum uses this site - but needless to say it wasnt very naughty at all and involved him taking something that wasnt his.
Anyway the dad wanted his son "to have a hiding to remember so he would never steal again". So took out a cane (I mean who actually has a bloody cane??) and walloped his ds across the bottom (dont know how many times). He left nasty red marks across the childs bottom.
I was really shocked about this, not sure that my mum was really as shocked as me. I am not overacting m I??