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(CBS) – A police officer from Everett faces charges for allegedly beating his
10-year-old because he got in trouble at school.
Jermaine
Bellard, 32, of Saugus, was arraigned Friday in Lynn District Court on one
count of assault and battery on a child with injury, according to the Essex District
Attorney’s office.
Saugus
police say Melrose-Wakefield hospital officials called them, saying the
10-year-old child was in the emergency room with injuries to his back and
buttocks
According
to prosecutors, the boy and his mother said Bellard told the boy to lie on his
bed and beat him with a belt 14 times because a school principal said he’d been
acting out in class.
Prosecutors
said the boy told them his father has beaten him before.
A
lawyer for the 260-pound Bellard described him as a “very very good police
officer,” adding that “he’s been a very good father over the years.”
The
judge set bail for Bellard at $1,000 and ordered him to stay away from the
child.
He
is scheduled to return to court Aug. 6 for a pre-trial
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