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According to the Newsday article “Spanking ‘reasonable use of force’ court rules in Suffolk case,’” a recent ruling by the Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court in Suffolk County ruled that spanking your child on the behind is a ‘reasonable use of force’.
The court dismissed a case on child neglect against a man who had spanked his eight year old child during a social gathering at a friend’s house. He had been ruled in neglect by the Suffolk County Family Court. There had been allegations that the father had struck his son with a belt also, but the court ruled that the finding of neglect was “not supported by a preponderance of the credible evidence.” The dad had confessed to spanking his son but denied ever striking the child with a belt.
The court held that “the father’s open-handed spanking of the child as a form of discipline after he heard the child curse at an adult was a reasonable use of force and, under the circumstances presented here, did not constitute excessive corporal punishment.”
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