Teenage lesbian severely beaten by grandmother
”The granddaughter had just finished having sex with another 16-year-old girl and was in an upstairs bedroom. Beddell walked in and found them together. The neighborhood girl ran out of the house to her nearby home while Beddell was beating her granddaughter with the cane. Neighbors said they saw Beddell leave the house a short time later. She was accompanied by her limping granddaughter. The two of them went to the other girl’s house to tell her mother what they had been doing. Beddell returned to her home with her granddaughter and continued to beat her with a belt. Police were called to the house to investigate a report of child abuse.”
Portion of a report made by police invetigators in the case of Joyce Y. Beddell, 61, of Pennsylvania, who found her 16-year-old granddaughter in bed with another girl. Beddell beat her with a cane until it broke. She stated that she had a right to discipline her granddaughter as she saw fit. She’s being held on several charges and a $10,000 bail. (ReadingEagle.com)
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