By The Canadian Press

B.C. parents convicted of spanking teen daughter get conditional discharge

May 10, 2016 | 5:57 PM

SALMON ARM , B.C. — A British Columbia mother and father have been given a conditional discharge after using a plastic hockey stick and a skipping rope to spank their 14-year-old daughter.

B.C. Provincial Court Judge Edmond de Walle convicted the couple from earlier this year of assault with a weapon.

The spanking was doled out after the teenager’s parents discovered she had sent nude photographs of herself to a young man over the Internet.

In his decision, de Walle condemned the spanking as punitive and degrading, not corrective.

The conditional discharge means that if the parents abide by the court orders and serve out 12-months probation they will not have a criminal record. 

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The teen’s father testified at trial that he had “no clue” that corporal punishment was illegal or that he was breaking the law when he spanked his daughter. (The Canadian Press, Salmon Arm Observer)

Salmon Arm Observer, The Canadian Press