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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/04/07/mtl-quebecgirl-sues-dad-0407.html  
 
'A Quebec father who was taken to court by his 12-year-old daughter after he grounded her in June 2008 has lost his appeal.  
 
Quebec Superior Court rejected the Gatineau father's appeal of a lower court ruling that said his punishment was too severe for the wrongs he said his daughter committed.  
 
The father is "flabbergasted," his lawyer Kim Beaudoin told CBC News.  
 
In its ruling, issued Monday, the province's court of appeal declared the girl was caught up in a "very rare" set of circumstances, and her father didn't have sufficient grounds to contest the court's earlier decision.  
The family's legal wrangling started with a dispute over the girl's internet use.  
 
She had been living with her father after her parents split up when he grounded her in 2008 for defying his order to stay off the internet. The father caught her chatting on websites he had blocked, and alleged his daughter was posting "inappropriate pictures" of herself online.'  
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Wow. Just wow. If a parent isn't allowed to set rules and enforce penalties for breaking those rules, how can they raise a child properly? Yeah, the girl is posting pornographic pictures of herself online, and that deserves quite a punishment, but for her to retaliate by SUING her father? That's just absurd. I wonder what kind of personality this kid is going to have when she grows up.