CHILD CRUELTY: A Georgia Senate Nominee Gets Seven Years
The Democratic nominee for Georgia Senate District 47 is going to prison. Justin Gillespie, 41, of Hull, was convicted last week in Madison County Superior Court of cruelty to children and battery, per 92.1 WLHR and the Madison County Journal. The case goes back to February 2021 at the Happy Kids Learning Center in Hull, where he worked: authorities said he hit a five-year-old girl in the lower back with a spatula hard enough to leave a red, raised welt, and the girl told investigators he was angry that she would not take a nap. Gillespie admitted swinging the spatula but said he was on the…
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