Stripped to the Bone

[CarolineT]

Some years ago I read a newspaper account of a young girl in South Carolina whose mother placed her in a “strict religious” school for girls. Apparently after committing some infraction she was sent to the principal’s office where the female principal instructed her to “grab a punishment bar” for a paddling but the girl refused to cooperate.

So the female principal left the room and returned with three male employees of the school to hold down the girl while the female principal took off all her clothes, everything including her underwear while the men watched as they held her down. Then she paddled the nude girl’s bare naked ass cheeks in front of the men. The young girl was quoted in the article as saying that she was “stripped to the bone” and treated like a “small child.” I believe the girl’s age was given as 12 years old. That’s quite too old and already pubescent to be stripped nude in front of grown men.

I’ve never forgotten reading that because I was embarrassed just imagining her clothes coming off as the men watched. Hard to believe but such things do take place if you read through news accounts of child abuse these last years. And after my own experience with my aunt pulling off my bathing suit in front of my uncle and boy cousins I can believe this actually happened. I can’t find the news article so it’s probably lost in the internet somewhere but it was around a few years back.

[hightab]

In what year was the article written ?

[CarolineT]

I don’t remember the year but it was quite some time back and I believe it was actually a “Dear Beth” letter sent by the girl asking for advice.

You can find a fictionalized version of the story written here:

https://puericil.netlify.app/fna/olgas_little_boy

I wrote to the author of that story a long time ago and he sent me the link to the actual newspaper item but I’ve lost that link.