I am not getting this.

[copzgirl1171]

This is a deterrent how, exactly?

Also, screw that mom. My kid would be doing all the time.

A Utah mother says she felt intimated in court when a judge told her that he would reduce her 13-year-old daughter's sentence if she chopped off the girl's ponytail in court — an offer the mother says she now wishes she hadn't taken.

Valerie Bruno of Price says she has filed a formal complaint against 7th District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen with the Utah Judicial Conduct Commission. The teenager and an 11-year-old friend were referred to juvenile court for cutting off the hair of a 3-year-old girl with scissors in March and for harassing another girl in Colorado by telephone.

abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/utah-mom-upset-judges-hair-cut-punishment-16641456#.T-hUBxcfSSo

[lys]

Cut her hair, no phone along with community service and couseling seem most appropriate to me.