Parents “Sentenced” For Locking Up Daughter
From the “You Gotta Be Fucking Kidding Me” Department comes this story: an Australian court has convicted a couple of…well, not quite sure if “convicted” is the right word. See, the unnamed couple had been stashing their teenaged daughter in her bedroom, under lock and key, for two years. During that time, she was allowed to take a grand total of five, count ‘em, five showers. A shower every 4.8 months. Nice. The girl finally escaped through a window and turned up at a Sydney police station, “emaciated and barely clothed”.
Here’s the punchline. The judge sentenced the wife and husband to nine and six months of WEEKEND DETENTION. In other words - he grounded them! You’ve starved, imprisoned, and tortured your kid - no more weekend jaunts to Bell’s Beach or attending Wallabies matches for you! What would the guy have done had the girl died? Taken away their cable TV?
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5 opinions for Parents “Sentenced” For Locking Up Daughter
Nicky
Oct 29, 2005 at 12:16 pm
That’s crazy! What amazes me is that the mother seems to think it’s her daughter who is in the wrong!!
achromic
Oct 29, 2005 at 2:31 pm
Evil horrible people (the judge is included in that). I hope the people of the country really get involed and let ‘em have it.
chocolate makes it better
Oct 30, 2005 at 2:12 am
As an Aussie, I just have to say we have some pretty fucked up people here…..but we also have some of the coolest, nicest people you will ever meet.
Trust me we don’t all lock up our kids….well, not the well ajusted among us anyway.
Hoshi
Oct 31, 2005 at 7:30 am
Hmmm… I say we take the law into our own hands on this one. Poor kid probably has pschological damage and fear of being locked in. This can be bad if she lives in some place where there’s a lot of crime and she refuses to lock her doors.
I just can’t imagine not taking a shower for months… ick! Treating their daughter like a dog… wonder if these people are part of a strange relgious cult or just plain psycho?
Hoshi
Oct 31, 2005 at 7:31 am
We meaning - the daughter and others who care about her.