Yep it was on the telly last night, what really gobsmacked me it was considered reasonable force to discipline a child with and she walked away from that court a free woman, how wrong is that, if you did that to an adult , you would be up for assault, so you can see why the law needed an overhaul can't you?she is not an isolated case either,alot of islander people in our country, from Tonga and Samoa, really believe in corporal punishment, it is their culture, they will be finding this new law very hard to abide by.

To my knowledge corporal punishment has not been allowed in our schools for sometime now,of course it could not be able to continue under this new law anyhow, i remember getting the strap as a child at school for talking in class too much, man i was so humilated, it was done in front of everyone, and by my favourite teacher too, that hurt even worse than the strap itself.