Posted on 06/18/2008 2:16:57 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
(UPI) - An appeal will be filed in a Montreal court after a Quebec judge overruled a father who grounded his 12-year-old daughter for dangerous Internet use.
The lawyer for the father, who can't be identified to protect the girl, told The Gazette newspaper that Justice Suzanne Tessier overstepped the court's bounds last Friday when she ruled in favor of the girl's legal challenge and said she would be allowed to go on a school trip her father had forbidden because of misbehavior.
"I don't think this tribunal was the proper forum for a decision like this one," lawyer Kim Beaudoin said. "If we don't learn at the age of 12 there are rules to follow, when do we?"
He said he was preparing an appeal based on the fact the judge acknowledged the girl's repeated defiance of her father's house rules.
They included bypassing security settings to block Web sites the father didn't trust, then using a friend's computer to access those sites. Beaudoin said the girl also posted online photos of herself "inappropriate for a child her age," the report said.
I’d drop the kid off with her suitcase on the judge’s doorstep. That ruling is insane.
Oh good grief. The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and fast.
The ex-wife, in a custody dispute took the father to court.
The daughter didn’t win.
The ex-wife/mother did.
Life copies The Simpsons.
When government gets involved with parenting that’s not a bad idea.
In the US, the CPS would trump up an abuse charge and put the father in prison.
This blows my mind. I can’t even come up with words. Or even what I’d do in such a situation.
You’d think UPI would have included that.
Sure you can go on the trip but when you come back your stuff is going to be on the curb in a box.
It’s fun to laugh at Canada’s silly tribunals but, in reality, it’s really very scary.
Good father.
Bad mother.
Terrible judge.
That wouldn't sell as many newspapers.
Better yet, sue the judge for child support based on the judge's insertion of herself into the parenting decisions for the child and for the ongoing increase in expenses that will result.
Just as crazy rulings have been made by judges in this country also. And it will get far worse until we find ourself in a dictatorship of judges.
Father should renounce and sign away his parental rights and change daughter’s birth certificate naming the judge as father....no matter what the judge’s sex....
I’m afraid by daughter would be looking for a new home if she sued us over something like this. And people wonder why this generation is so snotty and spoiled.
I’m afraid by daughter would be looking for a new home if she sued us over something like this. And people wonder why this generation is so snotty and spoiled.
Why should a child listen to their parents when they know going to Court is an option.
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