According to deputies, the mother reported on Monday that 42-year-old Gabriel Hardy of Vancouver had whipped her child with a belt, leaving bruises and welts across the child’s lower back ...

The pastor of an in-home church in Hazel Dell pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday after a woman who attended the church ...

When the child returned home from the service, CCSO said, they had bruises and welts across their lower back, hips and buttocks. The child said that Hardy had whipped them with a belt about a ...

Gabriel Hardy, a 42-year-old minister at a church operating in a Hazel Dell neighborhood home, allegedly whipped the child with a belt repeatedly ... noticed bruising and welts across their ...