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TORONTO — A mother who used a hot clothes iron to punish a child for raiding the family fridge lost her bid Tuesday for a lower sentence.

In upholding the 20-month jail term handed the Toronto resident, who can’t be identified, Ontario’s top court said it saw no reason to interfere.

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Court records show the mother of three, described as having “strong religious convictions,” had returned home from work as a nurse to be told by her son that his 10-year-old brother had disobeyed her by taking food from the fridge and eating it.

The boy denied doing so. His mom ordered the older child to get the iron and plug it in.

“She then embarked on a lengthy interrogation of the victim in an effort to obtain a confession from him,” according to the Ontario Court of Appeal decision. “No admission was forthcoming.”

She then used the iron to scald her hapless child on one arm. When he still refused to confess, she burned the other arm.