Posted on 06/18/2008 6:08:31 AM PDT by xzins
MONTREAL, June 18 (UPI) -- An appeal will be filed in a Montreal court after a Quebec judge overruled a father who grounded his 12-year-old daughter for dangerous Internet use.
The lawyer for the father, who can't be identified to protect the girl, told The Gazette newspaper that Justice Suzanne Tessier overstepped the court's bounds last Friday when she ruled in favor of the girl's legal challenge and said she would be allowed to go on a school trip her father had forbidden because of misbehavior.
"I don't think this tribunal was the proper forum for a decision like this one," lawyer Kim Beaudoin said. "If we don't learn at the age of 12 there are rules to follow, when do we?"
He said he was preparing an appeal based on the fact the judge acknowledged the girl's repeated defiance of her father's house rules.
They included bypassing security settings to block Web sites the father didn't trust, then using a friend's computer to access those sites. Beaudoin said the girl also posted online photos of herself "inappropriate for a child her age," the report said.
Canada Court Alert
Nanny state! Nanny state!
I wonder what the outcome would’ve been had “Dad” just thrown the d@mn computer out the window? LOL!
Where’s mom
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A father has the right to set the rules of acceptable computer use. End of story. Case dismissed.
She must’ve been at work at Hooters
Dictatorial tyrants wearing black robes seems to be an international issue...
Good lord. Not only would I tell the court to cram it up their @#$, I’d also be re-educating my daughter in the many uses of leather and seeing just how high the computer could fly.
Something left unsaid is how this judge intended to monitor this.....
A cop in the house? A social worker?
Things that make you go hmm. Bypassing web blockers to post pictures
This boggles my mind, but it scares me, too. My sons are raised, but I truly fear for my future grandchildren because this cancer is spreading thick and fast.
The line between reality and satire is gone.
You are presuming the child is somehow the responsibility of the parent, and not the state?
/s
Canada once again is providing Previews of Coming Attractions for the United States.
If you don’t think we will see a similar story coming out of a US court within the next ten years, you’re dreaming.
Thw courts are truly out of control. They perform their normal functions but get involved in this.
Wait a minute... How does a dispute between a father and his daughter MAKE it to a court???
If the father had anything to do with allowing it to get that far, he needs to swallow the courts’ judgement.
I don’t think that even in Canada, the court system monitors homes to settle disputes.
It takes a village ay?
I wonder what the school trip was about. The judge seemed very keen that the daughter go on the trip. Could it be some mandatory multi-culti re-education thing?
Since the mother isn’t mentioned in the article, I’m betting it’s a split family, and that the mom, in some kind of passive/aggressive strike at her ex, has assisted the girl in this excursion into court.
Just a guess. Who really knows?
She was only emulating Miley Cyrus.
Tyranny.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If you discipline your child, you are accused of abuse...
If you don’t discipline your child, you are accused of neglect...
I long for the 50’s and early 60’s......
Not exactly hard for a kid to ring the Canadian version of the ACLU or otherwise find a sympathetic lawyer with egging on from schoolmates horrified by her father’s ‘barbarism’ - from the article, I somehow doubt that the father would have aided in any way.
She’ll be a sea lawyer - smart enough to cause trouble and ‘know her rights’ yet without a dollop of common sense to accompany it.
Judges are the wild card.
It ends when lifetime tenure ends. No one is worthy of that kind of power.
Power corrupts.
Parents are held legally responsible for the conduct of their children, but are legally denied disciplinary methods with which to guide that conduct. So, the system is broken. One of these days a school shooting or similar will be perpetrated by someone whose parents were warned or denied by the courts to discipline said child. All the parents could do under those circumstances is say, we were trying to guide our child to the path of goodness, but you stopped us and now look what has happened.
She used a friend’s computer to access those sites.
The father should hand the rebellious girl over to the Judge and let her raise her, with all the legalities. But he will not do that because the father loves his daughter and knows that would be the absolute worst thing for her.
Candada has gone wholly amuk.
Tell me about it. Arguements I had with my Dad lasted about 60 seconds and ended with me splitting logs at the woodpile for 2-3 hours.
Not only that, the court overruled the father’s sound decision to keep his daughter from posting inappropriate pictures of herself. This wild child will be into drugs and sex within a year if she isn’t already.
If dad cannot control the use of the Computer, then he is prohibited from controlling the use of the television and telephone as well.
This is my “line in the sand” where I pick up arms and go 1776 on their asses.
No gov’t is going to get in the way of the training of my children.
Apparently, the school trip was something the father COULD prevent his daughter from attending, and it was something she wanted to do. In other words, he was taking something desired because she violated absolutely reasonable and healthy rules.
And for his trouble, the judge makes him to be the bad guy.
No hitting, abusing, torturing, cussing, etc.
A simple grounding.
Soon we’ll hear of toddler Moms hauled into court for imposing 3 minute timeouts.
canadian nanny state ping
Sadly so true...It’s a shame...
I strongly agree.
However, the father undoubtedly
undoubtedly failed . . .
the girl has an attachment disorder contributed wholesale to, if not wholesale caused by the father not bonding sufficiently strongly with her the first 6 or so years of life.
The time to solve teen problems, is the first 6-8 years of life by significant emotional attachment and lavish amounts of healthy affection and attention day in and day out—by DADDY.
OMG...
I looked to see if the link was daily redundancy or another satire site, I am shocked that this is real.
How did this get into court in the first place? O' Canada, WTF????
What do you expect... It’s Canada... already a bunch of liberal socialists... That’s where the US is headed under Hussein or McCain...
Have they all lost there minds up there????
Have they all lost their minds up there????
This sounds really over the top. It’s Canada, so any nuttiness is possible in court, but I’m wondering if this is some kind of family court thing with the parents split on discipline of the children.
We’ve had cases here like that.
Hahahaha. Yea. I was either a slow learner or inherited a good serving of bull-headedness. I had some pretty good tricepts on me going into High School thanks to that woodpile and not learning to pick my battles.
tricepts enforce precepts
“It takes the State to raise a child.” Hussein-the-Insane Obama
This statement is exactly what should be in all families. A child who shows rebellion to the authority of a parent IS in rebellion to God, who delegates the authority of training children to the parents. And, yes, "chastisement with a rod" is the Biblical method of driving this rebellion and "foolishness far from him".
Say a prayer of thanks for a dad like that.
I long for the 50’s and early 60’s......
So do I. Mind you, they had their share of problems back then and it was by no means perfect, but society in general was a LOT more rational and stable then than it is now.
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