3 thoughts on ““Beaten Up For Her Own Good””

  1. You have nothing to fear from a weak teenage girl, but when people have no problem beating a young girl; then they probably won’t have a problem beating a judge either.

  2. I guess then, that a Mob hit would be deemed “good for the upwardly mobile” younger Mafiosi?

    Leland, I can’t tell if that’s a joke or not.

    Fear of reprisal is something they fought in Italy from the Mafia for generations. They’ve made huge progress in fighting down the mob. If they now give in to the radical Islamists, what was the point?

  3. Steve, I wish the comment “for her own good” was a joke or at least not an actual comment of the court. I do understand that the reason children are overly protected by laws is because of exactly what I wrote.

    To be honest, I’m not against corporal punishment. Which does literally mean that I understand inflicting pain on a child can indeed drive home a lesson that is for their own good. Depending on one’s sentiment, the issue could be a decision of right or wrong to inflict pain, or an issue of the degree of pain. I see it as a degree of pain, and I don’t know what this girl sufferred.

    In the case of Italy, according to this website; the use of violence for educational purposes was banned by the courts. Well, that might have been true in 1996, but it seems that ban was recently lifted. I don’t know why.

    I could easily see this as a non-issue in a Christian home if parents punished their daughter with a spanking and “grounding” for seeing a promiscuous boy. So I will give a bit more benefit of the doubt here, and say that there is a possibility that the “beating” was a slap on the butt and the sequestering was being set to her room. Of course, that type of punishment is not banned in the US and happens fairly often.

    I’ll admit there is more to the story that could explain the court’s action.

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