Ban for therapist who slapped weeping child

  A German occupational therapist who slapped a crying four-year-old boy with learning difficulties up to 20 times was suspended from his profession for just six months. Ramon Priess, 35, hit the boy when he refused to put his shoes and socks on at the end of the session at the Maximum Potential clinic in Devonshire Place, central London. Priess claimed the boy’s sobs were a ‘sensory over-response’ to the controversial treatment. He denied assault by beating but was convicted…