In 1860, a teacher, Thomas Hopley, beat a 15-year-old boy with learning difficulties, Reginald Cancellor, to death at a boarding school in Eastbourne, England. Hopley was convicted of manslaughter. He was sentenced to four years in prison. Corporal punishment was savage in 19th-century schools, but actually beating a boy to death was going a bit too far.
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