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作者: totori    時間: 2008-6-18 12:36     標題: Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old :L

So nowadays Court teaches parents how to teach their kids? I don't get it why the superior court accepts this case? It's a waste of our tax money.... sigh...


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Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old

OTTAWA (AFP) - A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl's grounding, overturning her father's punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the Internet, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on websites he tried to block, and then posting "inappropriate" pictures of herself online using a friend's computer.

The father's lawyer Kim Beaudoin said the disciplinary measures were for the girl's "own protection" and is appealing the ruling.

"She's a child," Beaudoin told AFP. "At her age, children test their limits and it's up to their parents to set boundaries."

"I started an appeal of the decision today to reestablish parental authority, and to ensure that this case doesn't set a precedent," she said. Otherwise, said Beaudoin, "parents are going to be walking on egg shells from now on."

"I think most children respect their parents and would never go so far as to take them to court, but it's clear that some would and we have to ask ourselves how far this will go."

According to court documents, the girl's Internet transgression was just the latest in a string of broken house rules. Even so, Justice Suzanne Tessier found her punishment too severe.

Beaudoin noted the girl used a court-appointed lawyer in her parents' 10-year custody dispute to launch her landmark case against dear old dad.
作者: puZZle    時間: 2008-6-18 12:59

this is just messed up
作者: shutterbug    時間: 2008-6-18 13:45

According to court documents, the girl's Internet transgression was just the latest in a string of broken house rules. Even so, Justice Suzanne Tessier found her punishment too severe.

outraged kid...and this Suzanne Tessier... punishment too severe???  for cutting internet and no school trip???

sigh....Canada justice is weird...
作者: MyOMy    時間: 2008-6-18 15:58

The judge should have been dismissed the case, but she didn't.  And the worst of all, she thinks she is the one who can make the best judement and most appropriate punishment.  So watch out. parents. You may be raising ungrateful little skunk too.

If I were her dad, I will ground her again for taking the case to court.
作者: Austin    時間: 2008-6-18 17:09

There is something seriously wrong with this judge, and the mother.
作者: rockypath    時間: 2008-6-18 18:50

Where will be the limit and boundary? It seems that we are losing them.



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