A state appeals court on Tuesday tossed out child abuse findings against a frustrated Northern California mother who spanked her 12-year-old daughter hard enough with a wooden spoon to cause bruising...Wow.
Gonzalez and her husband testified that other forms of punishment such as groundings and taking away her phone had failed to persuade their 12-year-old daughter to do her schoolwork and avoid gang culture. The parents said that other family members had testified that spankings in the household were a rarity...
"We cannot say that the use of a wooden spoon to administer a spanking necessarily exceeds the bounds of reasonable parental discipline," (Justice) Rushing concluded.
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
It's Not Child Abuse
Who'd'a thunk that this ruling would come from California, of all places:
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Who filed the charges? The daughter? A teacher? A healthcare worker? A social worker? Just curious as to how this found its way into court in the first place.
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