Slaps the 12-year-old girl who sent racy photos, the court does not punish her: “He did it to educate her”

A 42-year-old woman slapped her 12-year-old daughter who sent her racy photos to a 19-year-old boy. The case ended up before the courts, as part of a case of mistreatment. The woman was found guilty of mistreatment. But the judges explicitly excluded this episode from the sentence. Believing that “once she surprised her daughter, the lady undoubtedly felt that she was exercising this power/duty of education and correction of her children which must be recognized in the hands of every parent”. Also because the girl “justified her mother regarding the slap, showing a high degree of maturity.” According to the Roman edition of Corriere della Sera, the woman noticed certain messages that the girl was exchanging on Instagram. At that point, she started swearing and snatched the cell phone from her daughter's hands. After the discovery, the slaps. She suffered from a black eye or an injury to her lip, according to different testimonies. Ultimately, she was sentenced to one year and eight months for ill-treatment, including the woman's slapping her mother. But regarding the episode of the racy photos “the mother exceeded in the use of force by scolding her daughter (…). However, the episode has no criminal relevance, in particular because there are no complaints of injuries or blows.” And in any case, for the judges, “the slaps were the trigger for aggressive, violent behavior and abusive which characterized the coexistence between the mother, the daughter and the maternal grandmother.

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