NAPLES, Fla. - A 39-year-old woman forcefully had her 13-year-old daughter's genitalia pierced to make it uncomfortable for her to have sex, the girl told jurors in her mother's child abuse trial.
ADVERTISEMENT
The girl, now 16, told jurors Wednesday that her mother asked a tattoo artist friend in 2004 to shave the girl's head to make her unattractive to boys and later held her down for the piercing.
"She was trying to protect me, but it hurt me," the girl testified. "It not only hurt me physically, but it hurt me mentally. ... That's emotionally scarring. That's physical abuse."
Prosecutor Steve Maresca said the mother called on a friend to shave the girl's head and do the piercing after realizing that she had been having sex, including with the mother's boyfriend.
Defense attorney Donald Day told jurors that the mother had trouble with her rebellious daughter and that the girl agreed to the piercing to help rebuild her mother's trust.
"It wasn't torture or extreme violence," Day said. "It was, in the young girl's words, to try to save her. ... That decision was a last-ditch effort. In my client's mind, she had no other options."
Child welfare officials were called after the girl became infected from the piercing.
The mother, whose name is being withheld to protect her daughter's identity, is charged with two counts of aggravated child abuse and faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
Tammy Meredith, 43, who did the piercing in her home, was sentenced to a year in jail for her role. An arrest warrant has been issued for the mother's boyfriend on allegations he had sex with the girl.
This article says she was acquitted and the defense attorney claims the girl consented:
The five-man, one-woman jury deliberated for about three hours before deciding the woman's actions didn't involve punishment, malicious intent, or cause permanent damage or disfigurement.
Not sure how they came to that conclusion?
And this one is great:
"Maybe it was not the best decision in the world," foreman Colin Kelly said afterward. "But the intent was to try to stop a girl who was completely out of control... Are you going to put every parent in jail for making a bad decision?"
Say NO to circumcisionIT'S A BOY! This is a great link to show expecting parents.
Some piercings allegedly have a historical purpose of limiting sexual activity, like the frenum piercing (franey cage) for guys; be that as it may, this story makes me want to sick up.
When the bad decision is mutilating your daughter because you are wacko hag, then yes, we send them to prison for making a bad decision.
"Show me an angel and I will paint you one." - Gustav Courbet
"Quetzalcoatl, plumed serpent of the Aztecs... you are a pussy." - Stephen Colbert
"Really, I'm jealous of how much smarter than me he is. I'm not an expert on anything and he's an expert on things he knows nothing about." - Me, concerning a bullshitter
"It wasn't torture or extreme violence," Day said. "It was, in the young girl's words, to try to save her. ... That decision was a last-ditch effort. In my client's mind, she had no other options."
I think this post says it all really. Apparently mutilation is a-ok as long as it isn't "excessively violent" and "in their best interests."
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
What gets me here is the implication that parents essentially own their children... I am having a difficult time making some sort of distinction between this and FGM in fact, I just cant make such a distinction. Our federal government grants blanket asylum to women trying to escape this kind of shit, and doing it against someone's will here is a crime in and of itself
GALE Force Biological Agent/
BOTM/Great Dolphin Conspiracy/ Entomology and Evolutionary Biology Subdirector:SD.net Dept. of Biological Sciences
There is Grandeur in the View of Life; it fills me with a Deep Wonder, and Intense Cynicism.
No one else takes note of the fact that the girl was having sex with the mother's boyfriend at age 13?
Mayabird is my girlfriend
Justice League:BotM:MM:SDnet City Watch:Cybertron's Finest "Well then, science is bullshit. "
-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
DPDarkPrimus wrote:No one else takes note of the fact that the girl was having sex with the mother's boyfriend at age 13?
I'd say its a safe bet that getting sliced up is just a bit more harmful than having sex with someone a few years older than you. The fact that the mother wasn't trying to mutilate her boyfriend's genitals instead of her daughter's is rather telling.
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
DPDarkPrimus wrote:No one else takes note of the fact that the girl was having sex with the mother's boyfriend at age 13?
I'd say its a safe bet that getting sliced up is just a bit more harmful than having sex with someone a few years older than you. The fact that the mother wasn't trying to mutilate her boyfriend's genitals instead of her daughter's is rather telling.
A "few" years older? The mother is 39, and the boyfriend is (assumingly) around the same age.
Unless she's sleeping with someone young enough to be her son, which raises this to an utterly new and unprecedented level of fucked-upness.
fgalkin wrote:
Unless she's sleeping with someone young enough to be her son, which raises this to an utterly new and unprecedented level of fucked-upness.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
I still find it more bizarre that she's choosing to mutilate her daughter's genitals instead of her boyfriend's.
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
fgalkin wrote:
Unless she's sleeping with someone young enough to be her son, which raises this to an utterly new and unprecedented level of fucked-upness.
Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
I still find it more bizarre that she's choosing to mutilate her daughter's genitals instead of her boyfriend's.
But if she does that, she won't be able to fuck him. And, besides, odds are, the boyfriend would beat the shit out of her if she ever tries anything like that.
So, she did that to someone who can't fight back, and whose genitals she doesn't need. What the hell did you expect?
fgalkin wrote:Unless she's sleeping with someone young enough to be her son, which raises this to an utterly new and unprecedented level of fucked-upness.
Not only that, but considering this happened when the girl was 13, it also opens someone (i.e. the boyfriend) up to statutory rape charges.
I imagine he will be arraigned at any time now, right?
fgalkin wrote:Unless she's sleeping with someone young enough to be her son, which raises this to an utterly new and unprecedented level of fucked-upness.
Not only that, but considering this happened when the girl was 13, it also opens someone (i.e. the boyfriend) up to statutory rape charges.
I imagine he will be arraigned at any time now, right?
Right?!
the article wrote:An arrest warrant has been issued for the mother's boyfriend on allegations he had sex with the girl.
fgalkin wrote:
So, she did that to someone who can't fight back, and whose genitals she doesn't need. What the hell did you expect?
Besides not mutilating her own kids genitals and doing something that might actually be sensible?
This IS Florida Fundieland, you know. "Sensible" is left behind when you cross state lines.
She did something that is perfectly reasonable for the breed of semi-retarded bible humper that inhabits the area, as the reaction of her peers shows. They're not that different from Islamic fundies, the ones that are fond of FGM.
fgalkin wrote:This IS Florida Fundieland, you know. "Sensible" is left behind when you cross state lines.
Well not quite, things start becoming more sensible if you go South enough. Also, the East coast is usually better than the West Coast. I've heard it said that the Mason-Dixon line is (roughly) the US 4, which runs in a diagonal from Tampa Bay, through Orlando, to Daytona Beach. If you're in South Florida, you go North to get to The South. Though Naples is a ways South of that, right across from Fort Lauderdale, on the other side of alligator alley. It is just a rule of thumb, and I did say the West Coast is usually worse.
General Zod wrote:I still find it more bizarre that she's choosing to mutilate her daughter's genitals instead of her boyfriend's.
Considering the "completely out of control" comment, she probably thought the girl would just find somebody else to fuck.
Yeah, nail her shut is the obvious solution.
"Prodesse Non Nocere." "It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president." "I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..." "All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism. BOTM - EBC - Horseman - G&C - Vampire
fgalkin wrote:
So, she did that to someone who can't fight back, and whose genitals she doesn't need. What the hell did you expect?
Besides not mutilating her own kids genitals and doing something that might actually be sensible?
This IS Florida Fundieland, you know. "Sensible" is left behind when you cross state lines.
Yep. Naples is home to such infamous fundies as Steven Spielberg and Bob Seeger. OK, they have to put up with Judge Judy being a resident, but this is rather odd for Naples. I can't help but feel there's something not being presented about the case.
Stanley Hauerwas wrote:[W]hy is it that no one is angry at the inequality of income in this country? I mean, the inequality of income is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Why isn’t that ever an issue of politics? Because you don’t live in a democracy. You live in a plutocracy. Money rules.
fgalkin wrote:This IS Florida Fundieland, you know. "Sensible" is left behind when you cross state lines.
Well not quite, things start becoming more sensible if you go South enough. Also, the East coast is usually better than the West Coast. I've heard it said that the Mason-Dixon line is (roughly) the US 4, which runs in a diagonal from Tampa Bay, through Orlando, to Daytona Beach. If you're in South Florida, you go North to get to The South. Though Naples is a ways South of that, right across from Fort Lauderdale, on the other side of alligator alley. It is just a rule of thumb, and I did say the West Coast is usually worse.
Yeah, that I-4 rule is horseshit. I lived in Southern Brevard county until 2006 and it was funie-land. Though there was a large portion of people, mostly northern and western transplants, who weren't. They still effectively ran everything, though.
It is a general rule of thumb that the farther north you go, the farther south you get.
We pissing our pants yet?
-Negan
You got your shittin' pants on? Because you’re about to Shit. Your. Pants!
-Negan
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.
-George Bernard Shaw
I wouldn't be surprised if the mother's boyfriend was raping her and she was to ashamed to say so and the mother wouldn't listen to that and told her she wanted it. I've come across that before.
Brotherhood of the Monkey @( !.! )@ To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. ~Steve Prefontaine Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
