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A judge has described the actions of a man who repeatedly hit his dog with a large square shovel, and later assaulted his daughter, as "callous and cruel treatment" of the animal.
Hawaiki Dean Little was sentenced in the Tauranga District Court this week for assaulting his daughter, who is in her 20s, as she was trying to stop him from attacking her mother, and ill-treatment of an animal.
The court heard about his attack on his dog, Marama, first.
A witness, who lived nearby in Welcome Bay, Tauranga, heard the black-and-white dog yelping in distress in September last year, and yelled at Little to stop.
The dog was se
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