Spanking Child With Wooden Spoon Not Child Abuse, Says State Court

[pnwmom]

233. Was your dad sexually abusive, too? I suspect not.

But this parent was. What this girl described to the social worker was a form of sexual abuse.


http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/H038241.PDF

Daughter stated that her butt is very sore today and her friends asked what was wrong and she talked to them what happen , even though her parents told her to never tell anyone about the spanking. started to cry and said she was scared of causing more trouble for herself.” According to the social worker, Daughter attributed statements to Mother that “she needs to smack her with a spoon so it will hurt more.” Daughter also supposedly reported that when receiving the spanking, “she had to remove her clothes and bend over the bed.”5 Daughter reportedly “stated she is scared of and knows she needs to be good to avoid getting a smack, but sometimes she has a hard time.” The social worker also reported that Daughter “asked if she could stay her paternal grandmother tonight because she was scared to go home,” and that Daughter “ha thought about staying with her paternal grandmother because she seems to get along better with her and things are not so scary.”6