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1monster

(11,012 posts) Mon Jun 25, 2012, 01:45 PM Jun 2012

Judge orders Utah mom to chop off daughter’s ponytail in courtroom

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. It also sounds as if this girl has some serious issues and needs intensive redirectioning and counseling immediately.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/24/judge-orders-utah-mom-to-chop-off-daughters-ponytail-in-courtroom/

Judge orders Utah mom to chop off daughter’s ponytail in courtroom

PRICE, Utah – A Utah judge told the mother of a 13-year-old girl who chopped off a toddler's long hair in a restaurant that he would reduce her daughter's sentence if she cut off the teenager's own ponytail in court.

District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen gave Valerie Bruno the option to either cut off her daughter Kaytlen Lopan's long hair "right now" with courtroom scissors or have the teen spend an extra 150 hours in detention as punishment for hacking off the locks of a 3-year-old girl she befriended in a McDonald's in Price.

Bruno added, "I guess I should have went into the courtroom knowing my rights because I felt very intimidated. An eye for an eye, that's not how you teach kids right from wrong."

Kaytlen also admitted to charges in another case rising from eight months of phone calls she made to a Colorado teen that included threats of rape and mutilation.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/24/judge-orders-utah-mom-to-chop-off-daughters-ponytail-in-courtroom/#ixzz1ypPD5Zgw

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Judge orders Utah mom to chop off daughter’s ponytail in courtroom (Original Post) 1monster Jun 2012 OP

Bad Headline Still Sensible Jun 2012 #1

Fox "news" wrote the headline, not me. The mother, BTW, is 1monster Jun 2012 #2

I agree. The hair cutting was an alternative for the girl in lieu of community service. LiberalFighter Jun 2012 #3

mindy moss is mother of the 3 year old. HiPointDem Jun 2012 #4

Oops! I think I'll make a small change there. 1monster Jun 2012 #5

Still Sensible

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1. Bad Headline

Reply to 1monster (Original post)

Mon Jun 25, 2012, 01:57 PM

Jun 2012

Judge offered the option of less harsh sentence otherwise, if the defendant agreed to cut off ponytail--as the article correctly states. I'm sort of on the fence as to whether this was acceptable or not, but in any case the headline should be accurate.

1monster

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2. Fox "news" wrote the headline, not me. The mother, BTW, is

Reply to Still Sensible (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 25, 2012, 02:24 PM

Jun 2012

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filing a complaint against the Judge. I don't think she has any room to complain since it was her decision to cut her daughter's hair. She had a choice.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865557954/Judge-orders-Price-woman-to-cut-off-daughters-ponytail-in-court.html

The mother of a 13-year-old girl says she has filed a formal complaint against a juvenile court judge who told her he'd cut her daughter's sentence if she cut off the girl's ponytail in his courtroom.

"She definitely needed to be punished for what had happened," Valerie Bruno told the Deseret News. "But I never dreamt it would be that much of a punishment."

"It was beautiful, it was long, it had natural curl, and now it's cut up to here," said the victim's mother, Mindy Moss, gesturing to her jawline."

In any case, the girl had her sentence reduced by 150 hours by having her hair cut. It will grow back, eventually.