Court quashes dad's grounding of daughter

A Quebec court quashed a dad's grounding of his 12-year-old daughter:

Initially, the father forbade his daughter from going online after the Grade 6 student posted photos on a dating site ... .

The girl's parents are divorced, and after she had an alleged row with her stepmother, her father barred her from going on a school trip to mark the class's graduation from elementary school, the newspaper reported.

"When he said, 'OK, it's final. You're not going,' she smacked the door, left and went to live with her mother," the father's lawyer, Kim Beaudoin, told CBC News.

Two days later, the judge ruled the punishment was too severe because the girl had already been sufficiently disciplined, Beaudoin said.

Court quashes dad's grounding of 12-year-old daughter (via cbc.ca)