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Court quashes dad's grounding of 12-year-old daughter

A father plans to appeal after a Quebec court ruled that he didn't have the right to punish his 12-year-old daughter by barring her from a school trip.

Quebec Superior Court Judge Suzanne Tessier ruled Friday that the girl should be allowed to attend the three-day trip within Quebec this week.

Initially, the father forbade his daughter from going online after the Grade 6 student posted photos on a dating site, the Globe and Mail reported in its Thursday edition.

The girl's parents are divorced, and after she had an alleged row with her stepmother, her father barred her from going on a school trip to mark the class's graduation from elementary school, the newspaper reported.

"When he said, 'OK, it's final. You're not going,' she smacked the door, left and went to live with her mother," the father's lawyer, Kim Beaudoin, told CBC News.

Last Wednesday, the father received a motion petitioning the court to overturn the punishment.

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Here's a father trying to avoid becoming a grandparent at a young age -- chances are he also forbids her to dress like a tramp -- meting out exactly the sort of punishment all of us past a certain age received once or twice.

In steps some know-it-all judge and, voila, this budding Britney is on her way to Quebec.

Hopefully she doesn't return in a family way.

Maybe there's a place for Hillary in the Canadian judiciary.

Simply amazing.