I don't know how long ago this happened, but my guess is not in the last year.
Then you're over 14 years ahead of me in fathering daughters; glad to know you.
I don't think she hit him there. According to the asst. principal, she just kept hitting and then kicking him. The school policy is very clear; you can defend yourself, but once the attacker has backed off, you can't keep hitting him.
A rule for boys, that shouldn't limit girls. If she happens to kill him, we just have to allow that potential in making and enforcing our rules. Girls should be allowed to continue to assault a male aggressor. They usually can do no damage anyway, and ones who do it and do happen to kill him, let it be a warning to men.
In her defense he in a sense, along a spectrum, raped her. There's no more need for defense. This is self defense, and this is again something we ought to permit for women, and not for men, just as the rule against continued assault against an aggressor once he's incapacitated, is for men, and not for women. Women should be able to bludgeon a male aggressor until he's dead, and that might be an exaggeration, but I've got daughters, and that's just how I feel.
, this guy did what Trump brags about getting away with. She was embarrassed and offended.
He should have been charged with a felony. That's why she felt that way, it was embarrassing and offensive that he could do that, and not get charged with a felony trespass.
Once he was down, she was obligated to stop.
And that's where I disagree. She has an inherent civil and human right to beat him senseless and to within an inch of his life, if she is able to. And men should know that. There's no "take it easy" in defending herself against a rapist, he's basically a murderer of her innocence and purity.
She disagrees too.
I assume there were consequences for the boy as well, but being publicly beaten up by a girl was likely as bad as consequences go for an adolescent male.
Jail. Jail would have been worse. The world is full of big men and little women. They're like North Korea versus America, they can do some damage if they surprise us, but not if we see them coming, and so their right to bodily privacy must be more recognized, affirmed, and protected by our laws in order to be just, than men's similar inherent right is.
They're tiny people sometimes, but even the majority couldn't defend themselves against the average man in hand-to-hand combat, and that means our laws should reflect that reality. The same rules cannot apply to the smaller, as to the large. The smaller inherently require the law to assist them, all other things being equal, and I am OK sacrificing the occasional rapist who does improbably die at the hand of the woman who nonetheless persisted pummeling his head until it cracked open. I shed no tear for that guy, he shouldn't have been raping, he traded his life for rape, he chose wrong.
Your daughter has a good head on her shoulders, and you've clearly been a great father to girls.