Ponytail For Ponytail: Mom Mad that Judge Had Her Cut Daughter’s Hair As Punishment

http://mybrownbaby.com/2012/06/ponytail-for-ponytail-mom-mad-that-judge-had-her-cut-daughters-hair-as-punishment/

by Denene Millner

A mother who lopped off her 13-year-old daughter’s ponytail in a Utah courtroom to reduce the girl’s sentence in a nasty bullying case says she regrets her decision to cut her daughter’s locs and has filed a formal complaint against the judge who made her do it.

District Juvenile Judget Scott Johansen initially ordered Kaytlen Lopan to pay damages, spend 30 days in detention and serve 276 hours of community service as punishment for chopping off several inches of hair from the head of a 3-year-old girl without permission from the child or her mother. But then Johansen made Kaytlen’s mom, Valerie Bruno, an offer she couldn’t—and did not—refuse: a reduced sentence for Kaytlen’s ponytail.