ÿþ<html> <head><title>WORLD CORPORAL PUNISHMENT NEWS CHRONOLOGY 2009</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-16"> <META name="description" content="News items for 2009 on formal corporal punishment around the world (school paddling, spanking and caning, judicial flogging and whipping, CP in prisons, institutions)"> </head> <body> <a href="index.htm"><img src="corpun.gif" alt="corpun" border=0></a><img src="wcpr.gif" alt="World Corporal Punishment Research"><br> <center><font face="Tahoma,Verdana,Arial" size="+1" color="#008040"><i><B>www.corpun.com</B></i></font></center> <p><img src="rainbow.gif" width="100%" height=5> <TABLE BGCOLOR="#FFFFbb" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> <FONT FACE="Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif"><SMALL> <A HREF="index.htm"><STRONG><i>www.corpun.com</i></STRONG></A>&nbsp;:&nbsp;<A HREF="newsdesk.htm">News</a> &nbsp;:&nbsp;Chronology 2009</SMALL></FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE> <h2 align="center"><font face="Tahoma,Verdana,Arial" color="#cc00ff">NEWS CHRONOLOGY 2009</font></h2> <h3 align="center"><font face="Tahoma,Verdana,Arial" color="#cc00ff">All 2009's news items, for all countries, in a single date sequence</font></h3> <hr size="1"><hr size="4" noshade> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="5%" bgcolor="#00ffff"> &nbsp; </td> <td valign="top" width="90%" bgcolor="#bdf7bd"> <br> <B><P><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">2008</FONT></P> </B> <BLOCKQUOTE><P><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial"> <A HREF="#jan">January</A> -- 14 items<BR> <A HREF="#feb">February</A> -- 27 items<BR> <A HREF="#mar">March</A> -- 19 items<BR> <A HREF="#apr">April</A> -- 12 items<BR> <A HREF="#may">May</A> -- 15 items<BR> <A HREF="#jun">June</A> -- 19 items<BR> <A HREF="#jul">July</A> -- 19 items<BR> <A HREF="#aug">August</A> -- 19 items<BR> <A HREF="#sep">September</A> -- 14 items<BR> <A HREF="#oct">October </A> -- 22 items<BR> <A HREF="#nov">November </A> -- 20 items<BR> <A HREF="#dec">December </A> -- 9 items<BR> </FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR><A NAME="jan"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">January 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>01 JAN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="mys00901.htm#20912">Punished for not doing homework</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Boy, 14, received five strokes of the cane; his mother shows picture of his weals</FONT></I></P> <P>01 JAN....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00901.htm#20902">'Woman' who tried to rob bank jailed</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>45-year-old, pictured, is also ordered to receive eight strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>04 JAN....UNITED KINGDOM: <A HREF="uks00901.htm#20905">Sex discrimination laws prevented ban on the belt for girls, reveal archives</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Scottish authorities wanted to ban CP in the 1970s</FONT></I></P> <P>05 JAN....KENYA: <A HREF="kes00901.htm#20920">Ringera renews calls for caning</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Judge who is boss of Anti-Corruption Commission says CP is the best way of disciplining school students, and should be brought back</FONT></I></P> <P>07 JAN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00901.htm#20952">Indonesian jailed 14 years for raping teenager</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>23-year-old, pictured, also gets three strokes of the rotan</FONT></I></P> <P>11 JAN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00901.htm#20932">District eliminates corporal punishment</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>No more paddling in St Joseph, Missouri</FONT></I></P> <P>12 JAN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00901.htm#20943">Schools take aim at paddling culture</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Follow-up to Chicago controversy</FONT></I></P> <P>14 JAN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00901.htm#20953">Malaysian waitress ordered to be caned for drinking</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Man and woman, pictured, each sentenced to six strokes by religious court</FONT></I></P> <P>16 JAN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00901.htm#20951">Man who raped nurse gets 28 years</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Rapist, 29, pictured, must also receive eight strokes of the rotan</FONT></I></P> <P>19 JAN....BARBADOS: <A HREF="bbs00901.htm#21075">Limited lashing</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Corporal punishment will not be abolished, says education chief</FONT></I></P> <P>19 JAN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00901.htm#20950">Convicted robber chooses whip rather than longer jail time</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>40-year-old gets three strokes and four years</FONT></I></P> <P>20 JAN....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sga00901.htm#21123">3 soldiers punished for assaulting colleague</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Rare report of court martial in which 23-year-old Lance-Corporal is sentenced to six strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>24 JAN....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00901.htm#21126">30 years, 24 strokes for rapist stepfather</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Man, 40, receives maximum caning sentence</FONT></I></P> <P>26 JAN....BOLIVIA: <A HREF="boj00901.htm#21007">Bolivians Ratify New Constitution</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Indians to be allowed to mete out corporal punishment under their own legal systems</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="feb"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">February 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>01 FEB....BOTSWANA: <A HREF="bwj00902.htm#21073">Chiefs want re-introduction of back lashings</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Caning on the buttocks is too lenient, they claim</FONT></I></P> <P>02 FEB....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00902.htm#21108">Stubborn Saudia flight smoker to get 30 lashes</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Sudanese passenger refused cabin crew's instructions</FONT></I></P> <P>03 FEB....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00902.htm#21107">Abu Kab given 20 years, lashes</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Stunt driver caused deaths of boys, gets 3,000 lashes</FONT></I></P> <P>03 FEB....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00902.htm#21019">Engineer sold cop drugs</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>36-year-old, pictured, gets five years in prison and five strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>05 FEB....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00902.htm#21124">Stabbing incident: Man gets jail, caning</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Six strokes of the cane for offender, 21</FONT></I></P> <P>06 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#21051">Ohio schools plan carries corporal punishment ban</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>State governor has a new no-spanking bill</FONT></I></P> <P>07 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#21066">Paddling ban would hit home</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Already only 672 paddlings in Ohio</FONT></I></P> <P>09 FEB....SWAZILAND: <A HREF="szs00902.htm#21070">20 lashes make pupil's bums swell</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Boy, 15, punished with sjambok</FONT></I></P> <P>10 FEB....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00902.htm#21065">Worker, accomplice jailed for robberies</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Plus 8 strokes of the rotan each for a string of crimes</FONT></I></P> <P>10 FEB....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00902.htm#21106">Sawa scam: Six men get 30 years and lashes</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Phone card fraud brings 300 lashes</FONT></I></P> <P>10 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#21069">Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford calls for doubling of police presence in city schools</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>... and for the return of "good old-fashioned butt-whipping"</FONT></I></P> <P>11 FEB....NIGERIA: <A HREF="ngj00902.htm#21111">Sharia Court Jails Two For Theft</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Both get six months' imprisonment plus 10 strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>11 FEB....BOTSWANA: <A HREF="bws00902.htm#21112">I Don't Spare the Rod - Headmaster</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Girls caned for putting on wrong uniform</FONT></I></P> <P>11 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#21074">School board recognizes National Board Certified teachers</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Paddling abolished in a South Carolina district</FONT></I></P> <P>12 FEB....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00902.htm#21105">3 robbers get 13 years, 6,500 lashes</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>They tried to pull cash machine out of wall</FONT></I></P> <P>13 FEB....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00902.htm#21114">Jail, rotan for having drugs</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Nine years and 10 strokes for 25-year-old</FONT></I></P> <P>13 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#21115">Malta Bend school board discusses cost-cutting, corporal punishment</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Missouri district decides to allow parents to permit school spanking</FONT></I></P> <P>17 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#22004">Boy bruised from paddling</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Georgia 9-year-old spanked three times in one day; alleged bruise pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>18 FEB....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00902.htm#21109">Man to receive 8,000 lashes for daughter's rape</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Plus 10 years in prison for 40-year-old</FONT></I></P> <P>19 FEB....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00902.htm#21110">Teenager sentenced to jail, lashes for blackmailing girl</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Five years plus 500 lashes for boy, 19</FONT></I></P> <P>21 FEB....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00902.htm#21103">Cabby gets jail, cane for drug trafficking</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>46-year-old, trapped by </I>agent provocateur<I>, will receive 15 strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>21 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#21116">Grand jury no-bills principal in spanking case</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Texas elementary principal is in the clear as CP policy guidelines were followed</FONT></I></P> <P>22 FEB....GUYANA: <A HREF="gys00902.htm#21129">Breaches of flogging rules will not be condoned</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Students protest over suspension of caning teacher</FONT></I></P> <P>24 FEB....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00902.htm#21118">Indon gets 5 yrs, 3 strokes for raping girl, 15</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>It was consensual sex with his girlfriend, he says</FONT></I></P> <P>25 FEB....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00902.htm#21102">Charter School Discipline</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Memphis academy gives weekly paddlings in front of student body</FONT></I></P> <P>26 FEB....AUSTRALIA: <A HREF="aus00902.htm#21371">Cane the answer</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Secondary teacher, in despair over reckless, out-of-control youths, calls for return of CP</FONT></I></P> <P>27 FEB....UNITED KINGDOM: <A HREF="uks00902.htm#21101">Banning the cane started slide in pupil discipline, parents believe</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Call for restoration of traditional disciplinary methods</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="mar"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">March 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>04 MAR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00903.htm#21131">'Merciless, marauding monster'</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>42 years' jail and 24 strokes of the cane for molesting robber, 48, pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>05 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00903.htm#21204">Spanking In Schools</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Still a debate in Oklahoma</FONT></I></P> <P>09 MAR....SOMALIA: <A HREF="soj00903.htm#21133">Al-Shabab Flogs Teenagers in Mogadishu</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Four boys receive 100 lashes each in public after raping girl, 18</FONT></I></P> <P>09 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00903.htm#21203">Legislator Wants Ban on Paddling Students</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Proposal to abolish school CP in Louisiana</FONT></I></P> <P>17 MAR....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00903.htm#21156">30 lashes each for two youth</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Teen boys publicly whipped for pointing laser beams at police</FONT></I></P> <P>17 MAR....SOUTH AFRICA: <A HREF="zas00903.htm#21370">Smacking favoured as best punishment - survey</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Public opinion in Western Cape is for restoring school CP</FONT></I></P> <P>18 MAR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00903.htm#21164">Molester gets nine years and 18 strokes</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>27-year-old, pictured, is repeat offender who terrorised girls</FONT></I></P> <P>19 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="usi00903.htm#21276">Ex-Elgin preacher convicted of battery for spanking girl</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Illinois Baptist, pictured, must perform community service</FONT></I></P> <P>19 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00903.htm#21159">Crawfordville Elementary School administrator under investigation</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Florida parent complains about paddling of 11-year-old</FONT></I></P> <P>25 MAR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00903.htm#21207">2 get jail, cane for part in bike gang killing</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Gangsters, 22 and 29, pictured, get 10 strokes of the cane each</FONT></I></P> <P>26 MAR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00903.htm#21205">Attack on ex-colleagues</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>40-year-old, pictured, sentenced to 16 months and 3 strokes after stabbing</FONT></I></P> <P>26 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="usd00903.htm#21196">Dad charged for 'whupping' his son</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>New York State man punished 13-year-old with a belt</FONT></I></P> <P>27 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00903.htm#21229">Paddling Protest At Memphis Charter School</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Anti-CP agitators besiege school which parents choose for its CP policy</FONT></I></P> <P>29 MAR....AUSTRALIA: <A HREF="aus00903.htm#21216">Teachers given cane go-ahead at Bundaberg Christian College</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>A Queensland private school that uses CP</FONT></I></P> <P>31 MAR....AUSTRALIA: <A HREF="aus00903.htm#21233">School's use of cane 'acceptable'</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Another Queensland school has "corporal correction" as last resort</FONT></I></P> <P>31 MAR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00903.htm#21236">10 years, 12 strokes for abusing boy</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Offender, 26, pictured, performed oral sex on 7-year-old in school toilet</FONT></I></P> <P>31 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="usi00903.htm#21303">State Bar Association pulls Thomas' law license</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Alabama judge who paddled inmates (among other things) may no longer practise</FONT></I></P> <P>31 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00903.htm#21232">Maury Co. schools consider a ban on corporal punishment</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Paddle may soon no longer be an option in one TN district</FONT></I></P> <P>31 MAR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00903.htm#21235">Principal suspended for paddling incident</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Row in Dallas over a coach's punishment two years previously</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="apr"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">April 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>03 APR....BOTSWANA: <A HREF="bwj00904.htm#21264">Mabiletsa lost vital info: Two youngsters given four lashes each</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Boys' flogging by local court is pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>04 APR....PAKISTAN: <A HREF="pkj00904.htm#21240">Video of Taliban Flogging Rattles Pakistan</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Female resident of Swat is filmed receiving unofficial JCP</FONT></I></P> <P>08 APR....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00904.htm#21283">10 years and 6,000 lashes for car theft</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>27-year-old describes his sentence as harsh</FONT></I></P> <P>09 APR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="usi00904.htm#21259">State Bar: Thomas Is A "Sexual Predator"</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Judge accused of paddling prison inmates is suspended</FONT></I></P> <P>12 APR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00904.htm#21409">He poses as cop to prey on women</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>34-year-old, shown in old picture at age 23, caned previously, now gets another 9 strokes plus eight years' jail</FONT></I></P> <P>14 APR....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00904.htm#21282">Sawa shark gets 20 years, lashes</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>1,000 lashes of the whip for phone-card scam</FONT></I></P> <P>15 APR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00904.htm#21274">25 years' jail for 'agent of destruction'</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Drug trafficker, 42, pictured, also receives 20 strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>22 APR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00904.htm#21287">Chapel Hill ISD Updates Corporal Punishment Policy</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>A Texas school district stipulates that only women may paddle girls</FONT></I></P> <P>23 APR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00904.htm#21288">School board spares the rod</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>No more paddling in Maury County, Tennessee</FONT></I></P> <P>25 APR....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00904.htm#21290">Serial sex predator jailed for 32 years</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>22-year-old, pictured, is also sentenced to a 24-stroke caning</FONT></I></P> <P>28 APR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00904.htm#21316">House agrees to school spanking changes</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Move to allow parents to opt out of CP in North Carolina</FONT></I></P> <P>29 APR....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00904.htm#21320">Ex-Riverside coach no longer employed after paddling</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Georgia military academy cadet chose spanking option, but it was against the rules</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="may"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">May 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>03 MAY....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgs00905.htm#21299">Bully, girly, stop it, stop it</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Three school bullies publicly caned at boys' secondary school</FONT></I></P> <P>04 MAY....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00905.htm#21304">The Principal And The Paddle</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>CP restored at a South Carolina elementary school</FONT></I></P> <P>06 MAY....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="usd00905.htm#21354">Golfer Sean O'Hair says he still loves father despite relationship strain</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Now 26, he was motivated by parental corporal punishment as a teenager</FONT></I></P> <P>08 MAY....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00905.htm#21408">10 years, 24 strokes for fatal robbery</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Two twentysomethings, pictured, jailed and caned after murder charge withdrawn</FONT></I></P> <P>12 MAY....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00905.htm#21311">Jailed for rape, causing hurt</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Eight years' jail and 10 strokes of the cane for 41-year-old, pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>14 MAY....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="usd00905.htm#21310">Assault alleged after spanking</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>But police said punishment of boy, 11, was appropriate and reasonable</FONT></I></P> <P>17 MAY....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="mys00905.htm#21315">Sarawak teachers want to cane girls, too</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Indiscipline by "tomboys" has reached alarming level, they say</FONT></I></P> <P>19 MAY....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00905.htm#21337">Temple school board approves corporal punishment</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Spanking makes a comeback in a Texas school district</FONT></I></P> <P>19 MAY....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00905.htm#21404">Armed robber gets 8 year's jail and caning</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>And 18 strokes of the cane for recidivist, 44, pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>20 MAY....NORWAY: <A HREF="NOI00905.htm#22067">Lyn players are birched on the butt</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Footballers, pictured, are spanked as team punishment</FONT></I></P> <P>20 MAY....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="usi00905.htm#21335">Judge: trooper showed no remorse for hitting boy with belt</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Policeman, pictured, says boy's mother, pictured, asked him to administer punishment</FONT></I></P> <P>20 MAY....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgj00905.htm#21403">Man beat his girlfriend's child to death</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>"Egregious" child-abuser, 27, pictured, sentenced to 7 years and 12 strokes</FONT></I></P> <P>21 MAY....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00905.htm#21333">Boy's Paddling at School Leaves Big Bruises</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>12-year-old, pictured, opted for a spanking instead of suspension</FONT></I></P> <P>29 MAY....ZIMBABWE: <A HREF="zwi00905.htm#22856">Shocking video shows Zimbabwe police beating recruits</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Mass whacking at police training camp is filmed</FONT></I></P> <P>30 MAY....TRINIDAD: <A HREF="ttj00905.htm#21357">25 years, 10 strokes for cutlass attack</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Court orders a birching for man, pictured, who chopped off wife's hand</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="jun"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">June 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>02 JUN....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00906.htm#21405">Couple used stolen bank book to cheat Maybank of $7,595</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Cheat and robber, 29, pictured, gets jail plus 12 strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>02 JUN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00906.htm#21359">Okaloosa schools ban corporal punishment</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>No more paddling in a Florida district</FONT></I></P> <P>03 JUN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00906.htm#21355">Bay County Schools Corporal Punishment</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>In another Florida district, no moves to abolish CP</FONT></I></P> <P>04 JUN....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00906.htm#21358">Paedophile who posed as cop gets 12-year-sentence</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Plus 12 strokes of the cane for 34-year-old, pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>05 JUN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00906.htm#21356">Rosebud-Lott ISD welcomes new superintendent</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Texas paddling principal has a new job</FONT></I></P> <P>05 JUN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00906.htm#21351">Legislator pushes school paddling ban</A> <I><B>(with video clips)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Attempt to abolish CP in Louisiana</FONT></I></P> <P>08 JUN....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="sgs00906.htm#21410">Boys taking porn to school - in handphones?</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>It's a caning offence at secondary school</FONT></I></P> <P>11 JUN....NIGERIA: <A HREF="ngj00906.htm#21364">Man gets 15 strokes for trespass</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>23-year-old chose caning option instead of a week in jail</FONT></I></P> <P>16 JUN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00906.htm#21377">Man gets 14 years' jail for ganja possession</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Plus 10 strokes of the rotan for 24-year-old</FONT></I></P> <P>17 JUN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00906.htm#21383">School corporal punishment ban blocked</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Louisiana abolition move fails</FONT></I></P> <P>21 JUN....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00906.htm#21421">60 lashes for OFWs in Saudi 'gay show'</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>67 Filipino workers face flogging for drag party</FONT></I></P> <P>23 JUN....NIGERIA: <A HREF="ngj00906.htm#21424">Man flogged for stealing eggs</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Thief, 27, cries out and wriggles as he receives 12 strokes of the cane in front of court</FONT></I></P> <P>24 JUN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00906.htm#21429">N.C. Senate dumps warning parents of school spanking</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Rejection of bill that would have given parents a choice over CP</FONT></I></P> <P>24 JUN....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="uss00906.htm#21431">Corporal punishment policy stays, for now</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>An Alabama school district decides to keep paddling for all age groups</FONT></I></P> <P>26 JUN....JAMAICA: <A HREF="jms00906.htm#21550">The case for corporal punishment in schools</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>We need it, says letterwriter</FONT></I></P> <P>26 JUN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00906.htm#21422">Judge wants to cane offender</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Gang robber, 20, to be caned in courtroom with parents present</FONT></I></P> <P>28 JUN....BRUNEI: <A HREF="bnj00906.htm#21423">Rapist Gets 14-Year Jail, 14 Strokes of Cane</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Man in his 40s recaptured after escaping police custody</FONT></I></P> <P>28 JUN....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="myj00906.htm#21426">Lawyers oppose bid to cane</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>He cannot be both judge and executioner, says Bar Council</FONT></I></P> <P>28 JUN....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00906.htm#21419">Couple sentenced to jail, lashes for child abduction</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Man to serve 15 years in prison and receive 13,000 lashes</FONT></I></P> <P>29 JUN....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="saj00906.htm#21420">Saudi appeals lashes for ex-wife messages</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>70-lash whipping for contacting divorced wife</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="jul"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">July 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>04 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/mys00907.htm#21447">Caning can still be carried out, says Wee</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>School CP not encouraged at primary level, and there are rules that must be followed</FONT></I></P> <P>06 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21443">Get facts right about caning, immigration tells Amnesty</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Illegal overstayers are not caned, says govt official</FONT></I></P> <P>07 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21438">'No' to caning by Sessions Court judge</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>High Court sets aside youth's unusual caning sentence</FONT></I></P> <P>09 JUL....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00907.htm#21558">Paddling an option for some</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>CP viewed from New York State standpoint</FONT></I></P> <P>14 JUL....SUDAN: <A HREF="09archive/sdj00907.htm#21515">Women Who Wore Pants Are Flogged in Public</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>10 get up to 40 lashes for wearing trousers</FONT></I></P> <P>15 JUL....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00907.htm#21488">Grove School Board bans corporal punishment</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>No more paddling in one Oklahoma district</FONT></I></P> <P>15 JUL....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00907.htm#21810">Items buried in the budget affect Pledge of Allegiance, angled parking, corporal punishment</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Ohio Governor finally signs off on abolition of school CP</FONT></I></P> <P>19 JUL....CANADA: <A HREF="09archive/cas00907.htm#21503">1968 debate kept the strap in Victoria schools</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Abolition move failed then, but British Columbia outlawed it in 1973</FONT></I></P> <P>21 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21501">Rotan for having a beer</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Islamic court sentences woman, 32, pictured, to six strokes</FONT></I></P> <P>22 JUL....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/usd00907.htm#21560">Spanking isn't always bad</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Sometimes tough love is necessary, argues journalism student</FONT></I></P> <P>23 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21500">'Prison can carry out syariah caning'</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Punishment of woman would be a first</FONT></I></P> <P>23 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21540">'Get on with it' says Kartika</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>She decides not to appeal; diagram shows how caning would be carried out</FONT></I></P> <P>23 JUL....MALDIVES: <A HREF="09archive/mvj00907.htm#21498">Dozens of Maldives women face flogging</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Row over whipping of 18-year-old "in front of a jeering crowd of men"</FONT></I></P> <P>23 JUL....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00907.htm#21832">Putting away the paddle</A> <I><B>(with cartoon)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Ohio paper welcomes the end of school CP</FONT></I></P> <P>24 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21584">Pahang, Perlis, Kelantan allow caning of women</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Applies to all Muslims whether Malaysian or not; another <I>modus operandi</I> graphic</FONT></I></P> <P>25 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21492">Malaysia in heated debate over caning of woman</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Criticism is because people haven't understood that syariah caning is not brutal like the criminal kind, says official</FONT></I></P> <P>26 JUL....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00907.htm#21543">Is whipping the answer?</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Furore continues; more details, with drawing, of method of punishment</FONT></I></P> <P>28 JUL....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00907.htm#21510">Repeat molester gets 6 years and 12 strokes</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>24-year-old, pictured, who groped young girls had already been jailed and caned before</FONT></I></P> <P>28 JUL....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00907.htm#21509">Inhumane, repulsive, shocking</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Three prisoners in their 20s, pictured, tortured cellmate and now receive heavy jail and caning sentences</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="aug"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">August 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>06 AUG....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00908.htm#21585">'Please jail and cane me instead'</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Court rejects teenager's request for a caning</FONT></I></P> <P>06 AUG....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00908.htm#21522">Parents to have say in sparing the rod</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Argument over parental consent for CP in a Florida district</FONT></I></P> <P>07 AUG....SOUTH AFRICA: <A HREF="09archive/zas00908.htm#21519">Eastern Cape teachers call for corporal punishment</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Caning powers necessary to restore order, say principals</FONT></I></P> <P>11 AUG....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00908.htm#21534">Disabled Students Are Spanked More</A><BR> <FONT SIZE=2>New York Times<I> prints a map of paddling</FONT></I></P> <P>12 AUG....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00908.htm#21575">Jail, lashes for making acid threat</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>60 lashes for 23-year-old who threatened girl</FONT></I></P> <P>12 AUG....UGANDA: <A HREF="09archive/ugs00908.htm#21552">Parents cane drunk teachers</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Vigilante punishment for dissolute schoolteachers</FONT></I></P> <P>12 AUG....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00908.htm#21538">Corporal Punishment in U.S. Schools</A><BR> <FONT SIZE=2>Time<I> magazine considers ACLU/HRW report</FONT></I></P> <P>13 AUG....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00908.htm#21532">Woodlands serial molester jailed</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>22-year-old, pictured, also ordered to receive three strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>13 AUG....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00908.htm#21529">Corporal punishment good or bad in Alabama?</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Many districts have it on the books, but not all use it much</FONT></I></P> <P>14 AUG....BOTSWANA: <A HREF="09archive/bwj00908.htm#21528">Police merger causes crisis in Phikwe</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Nobody available to administer whipping sentences at court</FONT></I></P> <P>17 AUG....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00908.htm#21574">Jail and 300 lashes for 'Misyar' woman</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Young man who assisted her in cheating gets 150</FONT></I></P> <P>24 AUG....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00908.htm#21996">Beer drinking Muslim model asks for public caning</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>And she wants Amnesty to stop opposing her punishment</FONT></I></P> <P>24 AUG....NEW ZEALAND: <A HREF="09archive/nzd00908.htm#21912">PM to address smacking referendum result</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Country votes overwhelmingly for legalisation of parental spanking</FONT></I></P> <P>26 AUG....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00908.htm#21682">Pahang puts caning on hold</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Religious caning of beer-drinking woman, pictured, is postponed amid political turmoil</FONT></I></P> <P>26 AUG....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00908.htm#21541">18 years' jail, 24 strokes for raping maid</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Heavy sentence for Bangladeshi, 37, pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>27 AUG....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00908.htm#21553">Arizona should ban paddling of schoolkids, panel suggests</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>32 districts still allow it</FONT></I></P> <P>28 AUG....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00908.htm#21577">No to 'whipping for drinking'</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Whipping of woman is abhorrent, says columnist</FONT></I></P> <P>28 AUG....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00908.htm#21591">BOE: Corporal Punishment Back?</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Paddling has always worked, says Georgia school principal</FONT></I></P> <P>30 AUG....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00908.htm#21573">Lashes for directing laser beams at plane</A><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>240 strokes each for two youths</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="sep"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">September 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>04 SEP....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00909.htm#21572">Drugs: Two Filipinos jailed plus 10 strokes</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Men, 49 and 35, pictured, possessed cannabis and syabu</FONT></I></P> <P>11 SEP....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00909.htm#21681">Jail for man who hit a Jew</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>34-year-old also gets 12 strokes of the cane for armed robbery</FONT></I></P> <P>14 SEP....UGANDA: <A HREF="09archive/ugs00909.htm#21671">Masak councillor canes pupils</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>He is pictured giving girls 10 strokes each for being late to school</FONT></I></P> <P>15 SEP....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00909.htm#21680">18 years, 16 strokes for killing baby</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Man, 44, pictured, convicted of culpable homicide</FONT></I></P> <P>16 SEP....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00909.htm#21679">Pahang orders caning for Indonesian who drank</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Religious court sentences 46-year-old, pictured, to six strokes</FONT></I></P> <P>16 SEP....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00909.htm#21688">Syariah judge stands by his caning decision</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Religious judge, pictured, unrepentant about "strokes for beer" sentences</FONT></I></P> <P>18 SEP....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00909.htm#21673">Caning for couple caught almost naked in car</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Six strokes of the rotan each for two twentysomethings who attempted to have sex out of wedlock</FONT></I></P> <P>19 SEP....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00909.htm#21674">Undergrad preyed on boys</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>24-year-old, pictured, ordered to receive five strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>24 SEP....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00909.htm#21678">Rag-and-bone man jailed over slashing of rival</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Plus three strokes of the cane for attacker, 36, pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>28 SEP....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00909.htm#21610">Some think teachers should be allowed to paddle students</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Not everybody is happy with abolition of CP in Ohio</FONT></I></P> <P>29 SEP....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00909.htm#21611">Kartika's whipping punishment upheld</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Caning for model who drank can go ahead, says appeals panel</FONT></I></P> <P>29 SEP....ST LUCIA: <A HREF="09archive/lcs00909.htm#21776">Parents to sue</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Schoolboy had bruised bottom after punishment, parents claim</FONT></I></P> <P>30 SEP....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00909.htm#21605">Dozen teens flogged for role in rampage</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Town square is pictured as police get ready to give vandals 30 lashes each sentences</FONT></I></P> <P>30 SEP....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00909.htm#21658">Abu Kab loses appeal</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>3,000 lashes and 20 years' jail for naval officer who caused deaths</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="oct"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">October 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>02 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21727">New Push to Stop Corporal Punishment in Schools Sparks Debate</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Paddling controversy in Arizona</FONT></I></P> <P>05 OCT....SWEDEN: <A HREF="09archive/sed00910.htm#21696">In 30 years without spanking, are Swedish children better behaved?</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>"Vocal international movement" against the Swedish no-smacking model</FONT></I></P> <P>07 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21786">Return corporal punishment to schools</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Paddling was effective, writes teen columnist in N. Carolina</FONT></I></P> <P>09 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21697">Coach accused of using paddle at Merkel Middle School</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Texas student says he had to drop his pants to be spanked on boxers</FONT></I></P> <P>11 OCT....UGANDA: <A HREF="09archive/ugs00910.htm#21699">Caning pupils resumes in Masaka</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>But district council does not support it</FONT></I></P> <P>12 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21701">Merkel paddling case to be turned over to DA</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>More on CP dispute in a Texas district</FONT></I></P> <P>12 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21700">Many parents support paddling</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Informal poll in Mississippi</FONT></I></P> <P>13 OCT....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgs00910.htm#21695">Students distressed by public canings just days before exams</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Primary school girls cried as boys were caned on their behinds</FONT></I></P> <P>14 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/usd00910.htm#21795">New Research on Spanking Might Need a Time Out</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Too many complicating factors to be able to measure its effects, say statisticians</FONT></I></P> <P>16 OCT....BARBADOS: <A HREF="09archive/bbs00910.htm#21712">Getting licks for lateness</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Boys are photographed being caned on arrival at school</FONT></I></P> <P>19 OCT....BARBADOS: <A HREF="09archive/bbs00910.htm#21714">Massiah all for flogging</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Nothing wrong with corporal punishment, says a man of the cloth</FONT></I></P> <P>19 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21757">Spanking common in Miss. schools</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Recorded instances of CP actually increased from 2006-07 to 2008-09</FONT></I></P> <P>21 OCT....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00910.htm#21716">Courts get tough on loan sharking</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>29-year-old, pictured, who harassed debtors is sentenced to 6 years' jail and 6 strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>21 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21755">Paddle charges will not be filed against Merkel school employee</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>And the TX district has no plans to stop using CP</FONT></I></P> <P>22 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/usd00910.htm#21792">University studies might fool some parents into thinking that spanking lowers kids' IQ</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Anti-spanking research: good headlines but bogus science, opines columnist</FONT></I></P> <P>22 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21756">Student files suit over paddling</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>MS district under fire for "deep bruising" of student's buttocks</FONT></I></P> <P>22 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21763">Paddling Questioned at Brilliant High School</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Alabama brothers, 11 and 17, pictured, bruised after punishment for being late</FONT></I></P> <P>24 OCT....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00910.htm#21774">He mistook victims for gang members</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>12 strokes for gangster, 22, pictured, who attacked the wrong people</FONT></I></P> <P>25 OCT....BARBADOS: <A HREF="09archive/bbs00910.htm#21791">Corporal punishment has served us well</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>"Licks" are a legitimate instrument of discipline, columnist avers</FONT></I></P> <P>25 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21758">Corporal punishment ban on school board agenda</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>A North Carolina district debates abolition</FONT></I></P> <P>26 OCT....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00910.htm#21760">Corporal Punishment in Mississippi</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Many teachers and parents consider spankings effective</FONT></I></P> <P>31 OCT....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00910.htm#21771">Two loan-shark runners receive stiff sentences</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Two more jailed and caned for intimidating debtors; one, 29, pictured, is ordered to receive 17 strokes</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="nov"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">November 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>04 NOV....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00911.htm#21770">Man jailed for tossing burning paper onto car</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>25-year-old, pictured, also gets three strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>07 NOV....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00911.htm#21823">10 years' jail and rotan for raping a minor</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Man, 61, pictured, is sentenced to six strokes</FONT></I></P> <P>10 NOV....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00911.htm#21817">One of the 'worst' predators ever: Judge</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Youth, 23, pictured, has his 24-stroke caning sentence confirmed</FONT></I></P> <P>11 NOV....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00911.htm#21818">Dad who scalded child gets jail term</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Gets 18 months' jail and three strokes of the cane after pouring boiling water on daughter, 9</FONT></I></P> <P>11 NOV....SUDAN: <A HREF="09archive/sdj00911.htm#21814">Worgu sentenced to flogging in Sudan</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Nigerian football star, pictured, ordered to receive 40 lashes for drunk driving</FONT></I></P> <P>13 NOV....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/usd00911.htm#21822">Police: Man Beat Son With Wooden Paddle</A> <I><B>(with video clip)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Ohio man, pictured, said to have spanked boy, 10</FONT></I></P> <P>14 NOV....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00911.htm#21821">Woman says boy bruised by paddle</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Texas mom says 7-year-old punished too severely</FONT></I></P> <P>16 NOV....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00911.htm#21857">LBC's 'Bold Red Line' sex braggart appeals jail sentence</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Five years and 1,000 lashes for sex boasting on TV</FONT></I></P> <P>17 NOV....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00911.htm#21836">140-year jail sentence for army man</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>And 40 strokes of the cane for 43-year-old</FONT></I></P> <P>18 NOV....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00911.htm#21828">Convict's sentence enhanced with six strokes of the cane</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Robber, 22, pictured, will now be whipped in addition to jail term</FONT></I></P> <P>19 NOV....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00911.htm#21856">2 years, 500 lashes for 'breaking spells'</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>He tricked money out of clients for "practising magic"</FONT></I></P> <P>20 NOV....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00911.htm#21855">Riyadh gangsters handed 10 years</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Plus 1,000 lashes each for three African robbers</FONT></I></P> <P>20 NOV....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00911.htm#21839">Spanking guidelines modified</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>"Sex discrimination" removed from Tennessee CP rules</FONT></I></P> <P>20 NOV....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00911.htm#21840">Parent: School went too far with paddling</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Spanked 13-year-old is pictured with his complaining mother</FONT></I></P> <P>22 NOV....NEW ZEALAND: <A HREF="09archive/nzd00911.htm#21913">Protesters march on city</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>4,000 citizens demonstrate against smacking ban</FONT></I></P> <P>23 NOV....SAUDI ARABIA: <A HREF="09archive/saj00911.htm#21854">Blackmailing womanizer gets 8 yrs and 700 lashes</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>45-year-old to be whipped in public with his face exposed</FONT></I></P> <P>24 NOV....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00911.htm#21878">Rowan-Salisbury school board passes paddling ban</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>A North Carolina district abolishes CP</FONT></I></P> <P>27 NOV....BOTSWANA: <A HREF="09archive/bwj00911.htm#22193">Royal beating</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Tribesman, flogged illegally, shows scarred back</FONT></I></P> <P>29 NOV....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00911.htm#21872">Some schools prefer to apply their discipline without a paddle</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Only about 15 students spanked in Indiana in the last year</FONT></I></P> <P>30 NOV....MALAYSIA: <A HREF="09archive/myj00911.htm#22038">Ten years, 10 strokes for drug possession</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><BR> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Filipino, pictured, punished for having cannabis</FONT></I></P> <P><BR><A NAME="dec"><B><FONT FACE="'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,Tahoma,Arial">December 2009</FONT></B></A></P> <P>04 DEC....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00912.htm#21871">An act of betrayal</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Foster father, 47, pictured, abused child in his care, is to receive three strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>11 DEC....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00912.htm#21940">Cabby jailed for trying to rob passenger</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>32-year-old, pictured, also sentenced to six strokes of the cane</FONT></I></P> <P>11 DEC....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00912.htm#21938">Man gets jail, caning for fatal attack in Chinatown</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Three year's jail and three strokes for youth, 22, pictured, after gang fight</FONT></I></P> <P>12 DEC....SINGAPORE: <A HREF="09archive/sgj00912.htm#21939">20 years' jail for sexually abusing boy</A> <I><B>(illustrated)</B></I><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>And eight strokes of the cane for 43-year-old, pictured</FONT></I></P> <P>13 DEC....UNITED STATES: <A HREF="09archive/uss00912.htm#21907">Glynn school board to consider bringing back corporal punishment</A><br> <I><FONT SIZE=2>Some want paddling restored in a Georgia district</FONT></I></P> <P>14 DEC....UNITED STATES: <A 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