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>> I don't >> think I have seen effects of parental belt spanking >on >> that site. > >This made me curious, and it turns out there is just >one! > >Unfortunately tho, as soon as I saw that the link >described it as "8-year-old shows red marks <em>on his >back</em>", I knew it wasn't going to be a spanking as >we think of it. > >It's an article, with pic as taken by the police, from >The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, 27 August 2007, >by Patti Ewald. > >"An 8-year-old boy has red marks across his back made >by a belt. A teacher sees these marks and reports it >to authorities. The boy's father, a 28-year-old man, >is charged. Lorain County Judge James Burge clears the >man of wrongdoing. The prosecution, Burge told our >reporter, failed to prove the necessary element of the >crime - that the 8-year-old boy had suffered serious >physical harm and that the punishment was excessive." > >"Burge said the marks looked worse than they were. >'Cosmetically they were bad, but I didn't see any deep >tissue problems. I didn't see bruises. I saw red >marks. I didn't see any welts where the skin was >raised.' > >The reporter expressed her disapproval of the judge's >decision, but said that comments on the newspaper's >website were overwhelmingly in support of the judge >and the father. > >It's interesting to see the distinction made between >*welts* (more serious) and just *marks* (less >serious). That's something I haven't really thought >about before. > >Also, the more commonly expressed view that the >absence of bruises means the punishment was not >excessive. > >I'm not going to link the article and pic, but it's >easy enough to find on the corpun.com website. I agree >that the marks look very alarming. There seems to be >evidence of at least three vertical and three >horizontal belt whacks that left marks. One of the >vertical marks reaches as high as the top of the kid's >shoulder, so would be less than an inch away from >hitting his face. One of the horizontal whacks seems >to have hit in the region of vital organs in the lower >back. > >The overall impression is of the parent flailing >wildly at the kid with the belt, which doesn't seem >like a particularly sensible way of punishing an 8 >year old. Why would someone do that, instead of taking >the belt to his butt instead? Seems like a loss of >control. > >It's interesting that corpun.com has 22 pics of the >effects of school corporal punishment, but only this 1 >pic of the effects of parental corporal punishment. > >I guess this might be because school corporal >punishment often comes up in the context of parents >making some form of complaint about it, and parents >find it appropriate (and have the authority) to take >and publish pics of their own kids' sore bottoms. By >contrast, authorities handling complaints about >parents often don't have the authority or the >inclination to publish pics of the effects of the >punishment. > >By coincidence, most schools (and courts) don't spank >with belts, which I guess explains the much larger >number of cane and paddle effects pics, compared to >belt effects pics. > >The website has even more pics of the effects of >judicial corporal punishment, mostly of adults. I >think many of these were taken and published by the >authorities as a warning to others, so the buttocks' >owners didn't get a choice about it. Including in a >"prison exhibition" at a still-operational prison, and >in pictures shown to schoolchildren. > >But the three 19 year olds photographed after being >birched in the Isle of Man in 1965, seem to have been >willingly posing for the camera. A 15 year old from >Jersey who was birched in the same era, seems to have >had his marks photographed by a newspaper reporter >invited by his parents in the context of making a >complaint.
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