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A forlorn peek above our garters to Miss Vicki at God is a Dyke for bringing us this bit of heartbreaking news.
(Original source seems to be the Reading Eagle, via 365gay.)
Apparently, Joyce Y. Beddell, 61, walked in on her sixteen year old granddaughter in flagrante delicto with another girl from the neighborhood. Instead of politely excusing herself, Mrs. Beddell chose a different, heartbreaking path.
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.
The granddaughter is safe in a hospital, being treated for "unspecified injuries" and Mrs. Beddell is safely in jail in lieu of $10,000 bail. The charges pending against her include assault, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, and endangering the welfare of a child.
This rips my guts out. It's horrific that such violence against non-strictly-heterosexual people occurs so frequently, but this wasn't just some random religious fundamentalist. This was a young woman's own grandmother. She beat her own granddaughter, with a cane, until the cane broke, then humiliated her by parading her down the street to the other girl's home, marched her home again, and continued beating her with a belt because her cane had broken.
My heart bleeds for the granddaughter. I'm too sad to even be angry, though I should be, and I feel guilty that I can't even get past the sadness to get to the anger.
(Crossposted at UDreamOfJanie )
From whence came the art:That image is titled Deliquiscence (Pride with eau de Parfume), by *TreMichLan*.
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Kisses,
JanieBelle
Good to have you back around, though sorry it is for such a sad story. Thanks for posting it. It's an especially good example of why having to get parental (or guardian) permission to join a GSA might be problematic for some teens!
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
Thank you, Elizabeth.
You're right, of course, but honestly I'm having trouble just wrapping my head around the idea that a grandparent would do something like this.
For whatever reason, this story has really pained me deeply, and I'm not getting past that aspect of it.
Kisses,
JanieBelle
