A Hastings father has appeared in court a week after avoiding jail for breaking his 4-month-old daughter's legs.
James Robert Hall appeared in the Hastings District Court yesterday facing one charge of breaching community work after an alleged breach in November last year.
It's understood the 80 hours of community work was ordered after he was convicted on two counts of sustained loss of traction and one of dangerous driving on August 30 last year.
He entered no plea and will appear again next month.
His appearance yesterday came just eight days into a 12-month home detention sentence imposed after he was convicted for assaulting his daughter and fracturing her legs in five places.