Crime & Safety
Police: Father's Push Hurts 8-Year-Old Son
The boy's knee was cut after the push at home, police said; the father was charged with disorderly conduct.
An argument between a 40-year-old father and his 8-year-old son led to the father pushing the son, who received a cut to his knee in falling, New Canaan police said.
Police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court):
The boy’s mother called police at 9:57 a.m. on Saturday, and officers went to the family’s Oenoke Ridge Road home. The mother told police that she heard arguing and yelling in the home and went downstairs to see what was going on.
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Her son told her that his father pushed him and caused the cut. The two had been arguing about a computer.
Police issued a misdemeanor summons for disorderly conduct to the father, a resident of Meadow Lane in New Canaan, who was scheduled to appear Monday in state Superior Court in Norwalk.
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