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

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254. The Court erred in considering it possible that the parent's behavior

constituted "reasonable discipline." It was sexual abuse disguised as discipline, which is obvious when you read the daughter's statement to the social worker.

The Social worker was worried, and quite rightly, that the daughter was too fearful of the parents -- and also of what could happen to the parents -- to give accurate testimony in the court room.

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