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Wednesday, June 18, 2008


Twelve-Year-Old Girl Gets Court-Appointed Lawyer To Sue Her Dad Over Grounding

And she wins, of course, with the court overturning the father’s decision to ground her.

  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 . . .

  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.

So this girl is disobeying his father.  Dad, being a concerned parent, is trying to keep tabs on what she’s doing on the internet.  When his daughter disobeys him he grounds her in a perfectly reasonable manner.  So what happens then?  Her daughter goes over his head to a flippin’ judge who overturns the grounding as “too severe.”

And Canadian taxpayers footed the bill for her lawyer, no less.

What right does the government in a free society have to step in and tell a parent how his/her child is to be disciplined?  Outside of abuse, which I’m sure Canada already has laws against, does the government really have any room to butt its head in?  Canada is not America, and has never enshrined individual rights to the same extent as America has, but even so is not the ability to live our lives and pass our way of life on to our children one of the most basic freedoms we can enjoy?

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Avatar for jpe

I was talking about this kind of craziness with a Canadian friend just three days ago.  His sister back in Can. tried to send her bad seed daughter to rehab, and the girl got herself a lawyer and sued.  So his sister had to get an attorney (also financed by the Canadian government) to convince a court that she should be able to send her drug-addled daughter to rehab. 

Weird coincidence that you’d blog on this.

jpe on June 18, 2008 at 07:50 pm

What right does the government in a free society have to step in and tell a parent how his/her child is to be disciplined?

This is a logical extension of the phony human rights movement in Canada.  After all even children have rights too.  Next you will have infants suing their mothers because their birthing was too painful.


One of the most important talents for success in politics is the ability to make utter nonsense sound not only plausible but inspiring. Barack Obama has that talent. We will be lucky if we escape the catastrophes into which other countries have been led by leaders with that same charismatic talent.
-Thomas Sowell

docdave on June 18, 2008 at 08:10 pm

I think it would be the mothers suing the infants…based on my observations at least. wink

A truly dumb ruling which deserves a quick reversal.


“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ”

Arthur Schopenhauer

MikeAdamson on June 18, 2008 at 10:32 pm

This is a logical extension of the phony human rights movement in Canada. After all even children have rights too.  Next you will have infants suing their mothers because their birthing was too painful.

And it isn’t coming here too step by step?


In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago

Neiman on June 19, 2008 at 04:42 pm

This is nothing less than abuse of power. I wish we had more information on the case. But it seems to me that maybe Dad got custody and Daughter wants to be with Mom. It was very convenient that she used Mom’s court appointed lawyer, since there seems to be a long-running custody dispute. That dimwit judge should have supported Dad to show Daughter that she cannot manipulate the system to defy Dad’s authority.
Neiman,
I don’t feel that we have to let this “movement” totally engulf us. I think we need citizen action against judges and legislators who are destroying the fabric of our society. Maybe a grass-roots movement which follows cases such as this and places them on the internet. Maybe an old fashioned “Million Parent March on Washington” would help.

ollie-B on June 19, 2008 at 08:52 pm
Avatar for David Blake

This is so ridiculous.  Essentially the courts want us to have all the responsibility for our children but no control over them.  What an oxymoron!  Just like that judge…a moron.

David Blake on June 25, 2008 at 06:52 am
Avatar for muthu

I am seeming this article, its very amazing and believable.Wow… not hearing that it was the mother behind this, insisting on demonizing a twelve year old girl, seeking violent revenge against a child that in all likelihood is the tool of her parent, insulting Canada in the most ridiculous way… what a nutty thread.
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Muthu

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muthu on November 12, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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