By Sujin Thomas

THIS was one dad who did not believe in sparing the rod.

The 38-year-old brought the cane down on his 10-year-old stepson 100 times over a two-hour period in September last year.

It was the boy's mother who handed her husband two rattan canes tied together after the child, from her previous marriage, was caught lying to his teachers.

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