Girl's Privates Pierced to Control Promiscuity

(Collier County, Florida) Sometime between August and October 2004, a woman became so frustrated with her 13-year-old daughter's sexual behavior that she had the girl's genitals pierced. The intent was to make the girl's sexual relationships with two adult men, one of which was the mother's 30-year-old boyfriend, much more difficult or impossible. The hope was that she would stop doing it. The piercings consisted of a post and a connected hoop.

Now I must mention that none of this makes any sense to me. If two adult men are sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, they should be prosecuted for child sex abuse. Not only that, but one was the mother's boyfriend? What's with that?

Regarding the post and the hoop as preventive measures, you got me. I can only think of a goal post and hula hoop, not typical appurtenances for the genitals. I don't even know how to combine the two. Imagine for a second someone attempting to stab you with a spear. Tell me how a post and a hoop will protect you. Frankly, the post and hoop approach is essentially perfume on a skunk. Long ago, the mother lost control of her daughter and anything she now does is too late. Post and hoop, padlock, even a zipper ain't gonna cut it.

Nevertheless, based upon available reports, neither of the adult men have been prosecuted. Reportedly, a warrant has been issued -- whatever that means. The mother, however, faces charges of aggravated child abuse with a possible sentence of 30 years in prison. She is scheduled for trial on October 23rd. The mother is currently free on $50,000 bail.

The mother's lawyer, Donald Day, plans to argue that the case is about parental rights as opposed to child abuse. The girl was totally out of control, Day said, and the piercings were a form of a modern chastity belt.

Day has painted the mother as someone who had exhausted all alternatives to prevent her daughter's continuous promiscuity, from curfews, to counseling, to locking her up. So she asked someone to pierce her daughter's private area to make it difficult to have sex.

Meanwhile, Tammy Jane Meredith of Baton Rouge, LA, the woman who actually inserted the piercings in the genitals of the 13-year-old, was sentenced to a year in jail after being convicted of one count of child abuse and one count of operating a body piercing service without a license. Although both felonies carried possible five-year prison sentences, Meredith agreed to testify against the girl's mother and was given a lesser term.


[Update 10/26/07]

Mother is acquitted.