Occupational therapist ‘slapped boy with learning difficulties’

A German occupational therapist slapped a four-year-old boy with learning difficulties repeatedly in the face at a West End clinic, a court heard. Ramon Priess, 33, claims he used ‘de-pressurised claps, not slaps’ and the boy’s mother consented to the controversial treatment in Devonshire Place, central London. Priess denied assault by beating when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Describing the alleged assault on April 3 last year Dami Eniola, prosecuting, said: ‘It is an assault on a four-year-old who…