Posted on 06/16/2008 1:18:28 PM PDT by Owl_Eagle
READING, Pa. -- Police said a 61-year-old Reading woman beat her 16-year-old granddaughter severely after finding her in bed with another girl.
Joyce Beddell is charged with aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of a child.
Police said Beddell's granddaughter suffered serious bruises to her legs and buttocks during Thursday's assault with a cane and a belt. The other girl fled from the house before the beating began.
Beddell told police she had done nothing wrong. She told police she should be allowed to discipline her granddaughter as she wishes.
Beddell was jailed in lieu of $10,000 bail. It was unclear if she had a lawyer.
She should have just taken pictures instead. Just kidding!
Of the beating? If the internet has taught me anything, it's that this happens all the time and the role of the grandmother is played by a 20 something.
Time was, not so very long ago.............
I would request a jury and take my chances.
Society has certainly gone soft. Bruises on thigh and buttocks don’t constitute “severe beating.”
A severe beating is a face swollen to 3 times normal size, etc.
Looks to me like this is being presented as a case of “homophobia” when the reality is that grandma would probably have done the same had it been a boy in bed with her grandaughter.
It sounds like the girl really took a licking.
She should’ve told the cops she was muslim.
Typical bitter homophobe grandma clinging to her cane and belt.
Well, at least she didn’t get carpet burns.
I got as bad from my own parents when I did wrong, and from my High School coach when I acte dup in 10th grade once. Gee, somehow I survived and am willing to say that I am better off for it.
The other girl apparently knew better than stick around and try and face Grandma.
I will tell you, I have a tough time faulting grandma if all she gave were bruises. If left well enough alone, I bet the teenager will think twice before ever trying that again in Grandma's house.
Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard Lyrics
Artist: Paul Simon
The mama pajama rolled out a bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout
And he started the investigation
It’s against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
It was against the law.
The mama look down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
The papa said, “Oy, if I get that boy,
I’m gonna stick him the house of detention.”
Well I’m on my way.
I don’t know where I’m going
I’m on my way I’m taking my time
But I don’t know where
Goodbye to Rosie the queen of Corona
See you, me and Julio
Down by the school yard
See you, me and Julio down by the school yard
In a couple of days they come and
Take me away
But the press let the story leak
And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek
And I’m on my way
I don’t know where I’m going
I’m on my way, I’m taking my time
But I don’t know where
Goodbye to Rosie the queen of Corona
See you, me and Julio
Down by the school yard
See you me and Julio
Down by the school yard
See you me and Julio
Down by the school yard
You are naughty! :)
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Yikes, That is one scary looking woman.
Looks to me like this is being presented as a case of “homophobia” when the reality is that grandma would probably have done the same had it been a boy in bed with her grandaughter.
You got it!
I support this grandmother.
ONCE? I wish just once!
Obama 2008....
Grandma don’t play./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Grandma keeping it OLD SCHOOL!
My third grade teacher beat my butt with alarming regularity.
My little home town celebrated her 100th b/day back in 2000, I thought about going to it, I figured I could beat the old hag by then.
Pay back!
go granny!
Back then, when old Dub Johnson wielded one, you did not want to come back for more...or at least you made as darn sure as you could that you did not get caught. LOL!
On her face?
Yeah, if this had been me you could say that my welfare would have been “endangered.”
ROFL. You just never know.
I remember when the hall pass to the bathroom was also the padal you would get whacked with. I also remember that you didn’t want to do something that would warrent the whacking.
Good for Grandma. You will note the article doesn’t mention the age of the young girl’s partner. Guess we can assume the other one was probably not a minor.
Ride’em Grandma!
Honor killing - American style. Exact same base motivation: “My child is my property, to dispose of as I please.”
There ought to be a Community Supper to gather her bail/lawyer $
Maybe homosexuality in some cases can help improve the overall gene pool.
Yep, my immediate thoughts were good luck to the DA prosecuting such a case. What are the chances of finding 12 people who each will vote to convict.
I could never figure out what that song was about. Even now that I've read the lyrics.
Request a jury trial of your PEERS ,Grandma.
My Mamo carried a cane a long time before she needed it.
Hey,
I remember as a first grader when the older students had all of us believing that a teacher had an electric paddle! It kept us straight all year until we wised up. I loved school so never got into any trouble. The way I looked at it was that my dad knew all of the teachers and their families so I knew I would be in trouble big time if I acted up. I did go 11 years without missing a day of school. I had a cousin who went all 12 years without missing a day. We all were a healthy bunch from eating good fresh southern food. No junk added to any of it.
Kudos to Big Bad Granny....maybe a bashing can turn around
a child from turning to sexual perversion. But in today’s Liberal ‘Brave New World’ it’s Granny who needs the Time Out, ay?
Your attempt at moral equivalence with the barbarity of the Islamic faith shows a lack of understanding of the role of parents under the Judeo-Christian worldview.
Parents aren’t allowed to kill their children for any reason, but they are given the authority and the requirement to train and discipline the child.
I doubt Simon knows what it’s about. He was taking lyrical opacity lessons from Steely Dan.
I wonder where the girls parents were at?
This is an outrage....the teens should have the rights to free expression away from parental repression. They should also be legally able to marry at 16 as well. Maybe the black robed wonders of the courts will sanction this as well./sc
at the ballot box, of course :)
Attention African-Americans....most abhor same sex behaviors. Why do the vast majority still align with the degenerate leaning Democrats? They will take us ALL down into their sewers.
Just think what Laz would have done with this thread!
Good One! If the GD wasn’t going to grow out of this *phase*, she might now.
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I’d never want to admit that I was beaten by a woman. As for the cut, I would be embarrassed to even have it noticed, let alone entered as evidence in a trial.
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