on the bum
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"If you obsess so much on youth that will bite you on the bum, unfortunately."
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Mr Brady asked what the purpose of smacking a one-year-old child would be, to which Mr Castle replied: "You're smacking him on the bum to get him to settle. You just say 'that's enough now', then you start saying shush."
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She admitted "smacking on the bum" which she also referred to in messages, breaking down in tears as she told jurors there was "no excuse" but "you tend to parent how you were parented and I was smacked on the bum so I didn't really see it as an issue".
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She later confessed that the stress of stardom caused her to develop a "boil on the bum" that had to be lanced hours before performing live on Dutch TV.
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Ms McGrotty said on that occasion, Det Con Sharkie slapped her "on the bum".
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