NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A woman who had her 13-year-old daughter’s genitalia pierced to make it uncomfortable for her to have sex was acquitted of aggravated child abuse on Thursday. The girl, now 16, had testified that her mother asked a friend in 2004 to shave the girl’s head to make her unattractive to boys and later held her down for the piercing.
Prosecutors 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 attorneys 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.
A jury deliberated for about three hours before deciding the mother’s actions didn’t involve punishment or malicious intent, or cause permanent damage or disfigurement. The 39-year-old woman, whose name is being withheld to protect her daughter’s identity, could have faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted of the charges.
I can commiserate with the mother who has a rebellious daughter but this seems a bit extreme to me.
That is quite seriously fucked up! What every happened to things like “you are grounded” or taking away pocket money?
So she would rather abuse her daughter than dump her scuzzy, child-molesting boyfriend.
In case anyone missed it…
I don’t think this is child abuse at all. These teen girls need to be taught a lesson about having sex at such an early age. The mother should have put a big iron chastity belt on the girl. Or maybe inserted one of those new devices in her vagina, that when someone sticks ANYTHING in her vagina it comes out all cut up…….hahahahaha.
That should teach em.
Steve –
So I guess she just jumped on top of her mother’s boyfriend, and there was nothing he could do to stop her?
Yes, #4, let us by all means ‘teach our children a lesson’ by mutilating their bodies permanently. After all, that’s what Jesus would do.
You are a sick person. You should seek mental health assistance. There are free mental health facilities in pretty much every county. Use one of them. Soon.
now thats messed up
RE:#4
The mother should be teaching her about birth control and STD prevention, not mutilating her genitals. We had lots of free love and sex in the 60s, what the hell happened to this country that would make you leave a comment like that?
What lesson do you want to teach about sex at an early age? We are sending them to die in wars at 18, no harm in a little protected sex, lighten up dude.
There has to be more to this story! surely on a jury of 12 there would have been one sane person! maybe the kid asked for the piercing and the mother consented?
This does almost border on FGM. I think I’d have convicted, though I’d obviously need to hear the facts of the case in detail to be sure.
It’s not mutilation people. It’s just a piercing. These girls these days are freaking whores. Just look at how they dress. (Not that I mind) You can’t trust teenagers. They’re hormones on legs.
The mother’s boyfriend fucks her daughter… and she doesn’t instantaneously dump the scumbag, at the least? I think that fact alone just about says it all…
No matter how the rest of society changes, for better or worse, white trash can be relied upon to uphold the time-honored traditions of their kind.
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ok I see white trash to be as offensive as the term i had edited out. BIGOTS!!
#14, Steve,
I don’t know what was edited out, but I do know the DU editors seldom use that weapon unless it is needed.
Judging from your other posts, you are a sick puppy. Try and find some medical help.
The woman that did the piercing got a year in jail. Why?
The boyfriend has a warrant out for him on the sex allegation. That would suggest he is no longer in the picture.
i am against the piercing part and dont think shaving her head would stop her from engaging in sexual activities.
but when my kids every cut there hair in a way i deem inappropriate (boy or girl) you can guarantee i will be there with clippers in hand.
First off… women with shaved heads are sometimes very sexy (with the obvious exception of Britney Spears)
Second, I know this blog’s readers love jumping to conclusions. Seriously, you guys get too much of a hard on for public stonings. But nothing in the article indicates that she kept the boyfriend, and as was just pointed out, the bench warrant suggests he might not be living at home…
#18 – OFTLO,
I think however, that the real issue here is a combination of the piercing, the head shaving, and the issue of non-consent. If the kid agreed to this, fine. However, if not, this really is abuse.
I think this is a Christian mother.
My comment is, admittedly, off the main point of the report.
In the UK there was much talk of girls, young girls, being sent abroad for genital mutilation as, allegedly, required for religious purposes.
In the UK female genital mutilation of underage females is a serious criminal offence whether for religious purposes or not.
Currently, because of our political acceptance of anything, however outrageous, or illegal in the name of a religion no prosecutions for this offence have ever been reported. It is not known from evidence just how widespread this mutilation is. However, the point is that there is absolutely no reporting by medical authorities, by schools, by police statistics or by the Crown Prosecution Service. Yet, anecdotal evidence suggests that it is widespread (ALL evidence starts by being anecdotal, i.e. verbally reported). In Egypt some 20,000 such mutilations have been reported as occurring every year.
Don’t know what the evidence is in the US. One case is one too many.
#21. Norman Speight
Good point…. Canada has a history of dealing with genital mutilation too… I remember living in Ottawa around the time of the Somalian war when a fair number of Somalian refuges were coming to Canada.
However, in the case of piercing, or specifically as they said: “genitalia pierced to make it uncomfortable for her to have sex” what exactly did they do? A clitoral hood piercing, I am told, can be quite stimulating (especially with a tuning fork), I wouldn’t have though the labia would make a difference…. so what did they do? Put a barbell closing the two sides of the labia together? Or do a three way piercing with a big metal shield in the middle?
i think its disgusting and wrong that a mother would force her daughter to do anything like that, and its not mutilation but its completely unethical when q 13yr old is restrained and forced to have a needle shoved through her genitals. if her mother was that worried about her having sex she could have just sat her down, expressed her concerns and taught her about safe sex and maybe just accepted the fact that once she’s done it its done. and i disagree that teenage girls are whores…