Pro-smack poster girl ‘hogtied son’?

Pro-smack poster girl ‘hogtied son’?
A pro-smacking lobby group has been lambasted by the children's commissioner for supporting its "poster girl" mother jailed last week over an assault on her son, who was hogtied, kicked and beaten. In the Timaru District Court on Friday, Barbara Bishop was sentenced to nine months in jail after a jury found her guilty of being party to assaulting her teenage son with her former husband, Kevin Bishop. He was jailed last year after admitting his role in the assault. Judge Michael Crosbie said the case was not about child discipline but rather the "unjustified, excessive and brutal force" used by the couple.
The court was told that in January 2006, while en route to Dunedin from mid-Canterbury, the boy claimed his mother hit him several times and he retaliated, although Bishop maintained she only gave him a back-hand flick. A few minutes later, Kevin Bishop stopped the vehicle and the boy was thrown over a drawbar, hit and kicked. Barbara Bishop was asked to get tape from the truck, which she did, and her husband hogtied the boy binding his arms and legs together. The assault was witnessed by a passing motorist and police were called. The judge said Bishop appeared unremorseful and believed she had done nothing wrong. He noted Bishop had previous convictions for violence, including one for attempting to procure the murder of a former husband.

So this is what the anti-smacking lobby stand for does it? Hogtied children beaten and smacked? This is parents disciplining their kids the good ole fashioned way is it? Bob McCroskie claims that his support of Barbara Bishop has been misrepresented – bullshit – Bob was very much at the front of trumpeting this case as another example of Labour attacking the family – what a joke! And what about that poor ole dad who ‘flicked’ his kids ear that was widely reported? And what about his two previous charges for beating his kids? What part of ‘don’t hit your kids’ do these people not understand?