https://amp.theguardian.com/commenti...king-is-banned
I’m reminded of the line from The Shawshank Redemption “how can you be so obtuse?”
Well apparently this Guardian columnist can, she seems to think things like this happen because we don’t ban smacking….because apparently scalding your child with boiling water, burning them with an iron, strangling them, biting them and causing fatal spinal damage comes from a lack of a law saying we shouldn’t physically chastise a child with a smack round the back of the legs.
Whether we should have a law like that in England is beside the fucking point, this happened because this girl was born into a culture where female children are routinely threatened and beaten if they show signs of becoming too “westernised” even children of this girls age. Because cowardly men like her murdering pig of a father is more scared of losing standing with his community than the risk of causing serious harm or death to his child.