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800 euros for a slap
A German court sentenced a 46-year-old father to a fine of 800 euros for having a temper he gave two slaps his rebellious daughter, and although the man claimed to have hit a child only once, in a state of stress, the court did not heed these arguments.
The incident occurred in a crowded vegetable market in Berlin's Steglitz (Steglitz), where his father came with his four-year daughter. Parent turned away for a moment to make a purchase, and at this point the child was gone. The man panicked, he paced the market was looking for and called her daughter.
He found it only when he returned to the car. In response to his accusations girl lied, saying that he had himself told her to go and wait for him in the car. My father lost his nerve, and he gave his daughter a slap. At the trial, he did not deny this fact. However, there were witnesses, said that he hit the child twice.
One of them, 32-year-old man, he said the girl screaming in the car, did not want to wear the seat and tried to get out, for which his father had given her a second slap in the face. When the witness approached the man and made a remark to him, he advised him not to go where it is not necessary.
According to the witness, this and the fact that other people in the market were pretending that nothing is happening, it stirred up, and he hastened to inform the police. Later, the case was connected to the department of juvenile daughter and the father of a four-year, he was summoned to court.
The judge did not listen to excuses that he was in a state of stress caused by the fear of losing a daughter weathered, and noted that parents have no right under the law on the use of corporal punishment in relation to their minor children. Moreover, according to the judge, in 2000 banned even single slap.
As a result, his father was fined for bodily injury.
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The incident occurred in a crowded vegetable market in Berlin's Steglitz (Steglitz), where his father came with his four-year daughter. Parent turned away for a moment to make a purchase, and at this point the child was gone. The man panicked, he paced the market was looking for and called her daughter.
He found it only when he returned to the car. In response to his accusations girl lied, saying that he had himself told her to go and wait for him in the car. My father lost his nerve, and he gave his daughter a slap. At the trial, he did not deny this fact. However, there were witnesses, said that he hit the child twice.
One of them, 32-year-old man, he said the girl screaming in the car, did not want to wear the seat and tried to get out, for which his father had given her a second slap in the face. When the witness approached the man and made a remark to him, he advised him not to go where it is not necessary.
According to the witness, this and the fact that other people in the market were pretending that nothing is happening, it stirred up, and he hastened to inform the police. Later, the case was connected to the department of juvenile daughter and the father of a four-year, he was summoned to court.
The judge did not listen to excuses that he was in a state of stress caused by the fear of losing a daughter weathered, and noted that parents have no right under the law on the use of corporal punishment in relation to their minor children. Moreover, according to the judge, in 2000 banned even single slap.
As a result, his father was fined for bodily injury.
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