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drkalbi
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 Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old |
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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. |
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Stevie_B
Joined: 14 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: Re: Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old |
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| drkalbi wrote: |
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. |
Goodness, this sounds like a wise use of public money. |
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nck
Joined: 16 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| And if the father still refuses to let his daughter go on the school trip, what punishment does he get? Could he just go to another judge and get it overturned for being "too severe". |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Are you fu<king serious?
I hope that judge gets disbarred for being a complete effing tool. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it April all ready? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Hurray for Canada eh. Liberal judges in action. |
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aarontendo
Joined: 08 Feb 2006
Location: Daegu-ish
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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That's cause Canada is all fucked up. And don't get all uppity, cause you know damn well if that happened in America we'd hear a never ending stream of trash from our local canuckles on the board  |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| This is what you get when there is no limit on what the government can do. Add this to the HRC's, nakedly and aggressively sexist family law, "multiculturalism" and an adherence to a lefty PC that has stunted the ability of people to talk honestly about any subject ever and we see what Canada has become: an experiment. The country is a social experiment. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| This isn't Korea and I'm not a netizen. Link please. I'm not going to believe it until I see a link. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| This isn't Korea and I'm not a netizen. Link please. I'm not going to believe it until I see a link. |
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/canada_child_court_offbeat
Canada sometimes makes Korea look so common-sensical it's pathetic. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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I understand the outrage, but are you saying that Korea's way of parenting and the laws that allow abuse and neglect here are preferable to Canada's laws, which protect children? |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Hah. Thought it was from the Onion until I saw the link. Amusing. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| I understand the outrage, but are you saying that Korea's way of parenting and the laws that allow abuse and neglect here are preferable to Canada's laws, which protect children? |
Yes. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| the girl used a court-appointed lawyer in her parents' 10-year custody dispute |
Would you say this girl has a 1-2% or a 3-5% chance of growing up to be a reasonably normal adult? |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| Welcome to 1984 Canada. Big Brother is watching you. The thought-police from the Ministry of Truth know best. |
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