A man who punished his teenage son by confining him in a church bathroom lost an appeal Tuesday as the Missouri Supreme Court upheld his child abuse convictions. In a unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court rejected assertions by Peter Hansen that there wasn't enough evidence to prove that he knowingly inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on his son. Hansen his wife, 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter were living at a Seventh-day Adventist church after they were evicted from their Springfield home in April 2009.
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