Dad Calls Cops to Watch Him Spank 12-Year-Old Daughter

[demmiblue]

Source: Gawker

A Florida dad taught parents in the state last week that it's fine to spank your kids, as long as you call the cops to oversee it.

The man wanted to paddle his tween daughter for getting into "a heated argument" with her sister, WLWT reports, so he called the Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office and asked them to supervise. A deputy came to the house, watched the corporal punishment, and left after determining it was legal.

"It's within statute for them to discipline their children, and spank them. ... You are entitled to paddle your child, whether you use you hands, you use a belt, you use a paddle. Within reason. As long as you're paddlin' the buttocks," undersheriff Noel Stephen told WLWT. The report didn't specify whether hand, belt, or paddle was the weapon of choice in this particular case.

Stephen is apparently correct: "Corporal discipline of a child by a parent or legal custodian for disciplinary purposes does not in itself constitute abuse when it does not result in harm to the child," according to Florida's civil code, and the threshold for "harm" is pretty high: It includes cuts, burns, sprains, hemorrhages, broken bones, and disfigurement, among other things.

Read more: http://gawker.com/dad-calls-cops-to-watch-him-spank-12-year-old-daughter-1677493594

[Kalidurga]

1. Emoticon says it all

I hope his daughter turns out alright. She might just be gone when she is of age, no looking back.

[RKP5637]

3. Exactly! He's preparing her to hate his guts or worse. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

2. This is sick shit.

Does PTSD count as "harm to the child?"

[RKP5637]

5. Sadly, the cop probably got hot and enjoyed it, watching a tween buttocks get spanked.

IMO a lot of these laws are about letting these jerks have a good time of it all. As you said, sick shit.

[MindPilot]

4. Sounds a little perverse.

"undersheriff Noel Stephen has personally overseen about a dozen such paddlin' incidents, but says the sheriff's office only provides the service when deputies aren't handling more serious calls."

Creepy...really, really creepy.


ETA, after giving it a little more thought, it sounds a lot perverse. I'll bet there is some really nasty shit going on beneath the surface there.

[RKP5637]

6. Probably goes back in his squad car when over and jerks off! n/t

[demmiblue]

7. That was the first adjective that came to my mind... creepy.

Two adult males taking part in the spanking of a tween (who has probably already started puberty, mind you).

Creepy and humiliating.

[MindPilot]

8. Not just any two adult males, two primary authority figures.

The young lady's father and a uniformed police officer. You could do your entire psych dissertation on the damage that can cause.

Again I think there is way more going on here than a wildly inappropriate administration of corporal punishment.

[pipoman]

9. Never saw a need

An occasional swat on the seat to get the kid's attention, never infliction of serious pain....that's just counter productive imo ..by 12 there are enough other things important to the kid to take away. ...way more effective

[Trillo]

10. Did the police report witness & verify "the heated argument"?

If this becomes a trend, imagine the future resentment toward cops. "My daddy spanked me in your presence because I caught him assaulting mom, and he falsely claimed I was 'in a heated argument' with my sister. You did nothing to him, mom was locked up in the basement while you stood by and witnessed. Fuck you coppers."

[joeybee12]

11. Your tax dollars at work...

I would have arrested the father for misues of public funds.

[jdenver_2624]

14. Agreed. This dad is sick in the head.

Time to call CPS on this guy.

[joeglow3]

12. The article is incomplete

It mentions nothing of his views on breastfeeding in public, getting children vaccinated, owning pit bulls or if he would circumcise his sons.

[Initech]

13. Florida. 'Nuff said.

[countryjake]

15. "Entitled"? So birth certificates are considered deeds to property in Florida?

[SomethingFishy]

16. Why stop there? Call Cheney to supervise the torture...

[frylock]

17. maybe the next "heated argument" will escalate to physical violence..

now that daddy has shown her the proper way to handle disagreements.

on edit: and yeah, i have to agree that this is fukcin creepy.