As a writer of spanking fiction, I have imagined more than one rather odd set up in my time. But sometimes life has a way of coming up with an event almost beyond belief. The following is copied as printed in the Washingon Post:
A Florida father looking to punish his daughter without committing a
crime had a deputy come supervise him spanking her, police said.
The
father’s 12-year-old daughter had gotten into a heated argument with
her sister, and the father wanted a deputy to come supervise him
disciplining her, according to the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office.
A deputy supervised the spanking, determined no crime had been committed, and left, police said.
“You
are entitled to paddle your child, whether you use your hands, use a
belt, or use a paddle — as long as you’re paddling the
buttocks,” Undersheriff Noel Stephen stated.
Police said the seemingly bizarre request is nothing new. Officer Stephen said he personally has supervised a dozen spankings.
“It
happens,” he told the station. “It’s definitely not something we
advertise to do, and even though law enforcement has been willing to
help out in this situation, watching a parent discipline their child is
something that’s done only when a deputy has no other calls to handle.”
There are a number of reasons I could not have come up with this in a tale: for starters, I never write about young kids getting spanked. And like most spankos. I have a natural aversion to any form of corporal punishment being administered to youngsters. But even if I had been writing about, say, a sixteen yea old, I would never have dreamed of adding a supervising police officer to the tale.
Reality seems to go out of its way, at times, to trump fiction. And the laws of our land do often assist in coming up with some rather strange motives to ensure our acts remain strictly legal.
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