Grandma Jailed Over Beating Teen In Lesbian Clinch

[WillParkinson]

(Reading, Pennsylvania) A 61-year old Reading woman is in jail awaiting trial for allegedly beating her granddaughter with a cane and a belt after finding the teen in bed with another girl.

Joyce Y. Beddell is charged with aggravated and simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of a child.

She is being held in jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Police said that Beddell discovered her granddaughter in bed having sex with a neighborhood teen girl.

The neighboring teen ran when Beddell entered the room, according to police, and escaped the elder woman's wrath.

The granddaughter was not so lucky. Beddell allegedly took a cane and then a belt to the 16 year old. She then forcibly took the girl from the house.

Neighbors saw Beddell taking the limping granddaughter to the other girl's home where she informed that girl's parent of the affair.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/06/061608cane.htm

[qb]

1. I hope the girl finds a loving foster home.

I also hope they keep the hateful woman locked up.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. At the risk of playing devil's advocate in this situation

I wonder if the grandmother would have reacted the same way if the girl was in bed with a boy? The way the story is framed, it is written to make the grandmother look homophobic, which may not be true. :shrug:

[ingac70]

4. That's the way I see it too...

finding teenagers going at it sets off parents and grandparents. I'm pretty sure the girl woulda got her ass beat if she was with a boy.

[Lerkfish]

5. well, whether homophobic or sexphobic, there was still no good reason to beat the girl

IMHO

[ingac70]

6. Of course it isn't...

but that is how parents react. If the girl had been doing a guy, Grandma wouldn't be looking at trouble right now.

[Lerkfish]

8. *confused* are you saying grandma is MORE likely to face charges in a gay situation?

not sure I understand the logic of that.

:shrug:

[ingac70]

10. Yeah...

'cause she'll be made to have done it out of hate for homosexuals and not rage over her granddaughter getting it on.

I went to school with a guy that was put in the hospital by an angry father over this exact situation, and the cops didn't do squat.

[Lerkfish]

11. still confused -- reread your post I responded to, it appears you stated the opposite

it appears you originally said she was MORE likely to face charges in a gay situation, but just now you're making the opposite point.

[ingac70]

12. Where did I make the opposite point?

The guy I was referring to was doing a girl.

[Lerkfish]

15. "If the girl had been doing a guy, Grandma wouldn't be looking at trouble right now."

is the part I misread. sorry, my bad. for some reason, I read that the opposite way.

[pnwmom]

18. The example you gave is not what should have happened.

They boy probably was not willing to press charges, and for some reason CPS wasn't involved. But normally, there would be consequences if a parent put a child in the hospital.

[ingac70]

21. I called the cops...

'cause I was the girl the boy was doing.... His own Dad beat him up for it.

[pnwmom]

24. But the boy must not have pressed charges, right? I wonder why

CPS didn't get involved.

[stompk]

25. limping

where in the article did it say she went to the hospital?

she was taken limping to a friends house.

[Solon]

9. That's how SOME people's parents react to the situation, not all...

My parents would have only wanted to make sure we were using protection and that's about it. Of course, I'm a straight guy, but then again, they let my sister's boyfriend move in with them when they were both in high school, and they are now married and both going to college. The only concern my parents had was about making sure both of them used protection and my sister is on the pill. Oh and they hooked up at around 16 years old as well.

Of course it helped when my Dad, me, and my cousins and uncles all sat him down and had a talk with him, it was simple really, if he didn't treat her right, no one was ever going to find the body. Just an FYI he treats her like a queen. :D

[Warpy]

14. If Grandma had done the damage that this article suggests

and a neighbor had reported it, Grandma would be looking at the inside of a cell.

Beating a kid is always wrong. Period.

Turning in people who beat kids is always right.

[pnwmom]

17. Grandma would still be on the hook for child abuse

whether the girl was with another girl or with a boy.

[Karl_Bonner_1982]

20. That doesn't make it right

Parents have no right to react violently to consensual sex, just as they have no right to act like lunatics if one of their teenage kids renounces the family's religious beliefs or shows some other kind of peaceful dissent.

[LostinVA]

23. Good job, Agent Franzia

You kicked off a giant thing between "Ignored" and Lerkfish.

I know Haruka's grandmother would have reacted the same either way. Meanwhile, her parents used to let her have sleepovers with boys, because they were "safe."

[ingac70]

3. My Dad woulda done the same had he caught me in bed with someone.

Male or female.

[pnwmom]

19. Then you should have pressed charges. Because it's wrong. n/t

[HockeyMom]

7. No excuse for the physical beating

Although I hope it was due to the fact she was just plain having sex, not specifically same sex, in the family home.

[Midlodemocrat]

13. My thoughts as well.

I don't hit my kids, so I can't excuse anyone who does for any reason, but I hope this child doesn't also have to deal with homophobic in her family.

[closeupready]

22. not to prejudge, but if she's like a typical 61-year-old, polls show they reject same-sex marriage

in large numbers. Therefore, it would be reasonable in my opinion to infer that while it may have been the sex part she objected to, she probably objected to the same-sex part, as well.

[damntexdem]

16. Ah, family values -- ain't they great?

I wonder whether the grandmother gets off on exposing newborns on hillsides.