28th Oct 2007
It’s Because She Was Asking For It
Apparently, it’s okay to pierce your thirteen-year-old daughter’s genitals and shave her head if you tell the court that she was a promiscuous slut. How is this not child abuse?
Here’s the part that got me:
When the defense case began Wednesday, Day called the girl’s 20-year-old brother, who choked up tearfully while describing his sister’s promiscuity and his mother’s inability to control her, despite grounding her and other restrictions. He said he urged her to get pierced to gain her mother’s trust and she agreed.
It sounds too much like there’s a cycle of emotional abuse wherein the daughter acts out because she’s being abused, and her older brother manipulates her into allowing her mother to do abusive things.
There’s also an implication that the girl was being raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Yet, she’s the one who is a slut and therefore they mutilate her genitals and shave her head to make her ugly. Then, they blame the government because they couldn’t get any help.
And somehow, they managed to convince a jury that it’s a matter of parental rights. Read an earlier story here.
-GhostGirl
I hope this is the most horrible story I read all day. Because I’m not sure I can take anything more horrible.
What I find truly lacking from the story is the perspective of the child. We have a lot of explanation from the mother (she herself was abused, she tried EVERYTHING other than genital mutiliation to get her daughter to behave, her other daughters were taken away from her, she was crying and puffy-faced). It’s all about the abuser’s pain and consequent relief. And then there’s some legal mismanagement issues too. The poor child.
Horrendous.