Salmon Arm Observer, May 13, 2016

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Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 27 No. 20 May 13, 2016

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n Travis Heward searches for a pair of shoes to match the purse his mom chose at the annual She Shoe Swaps sale of gently used shoes and handbags held at Okanagan College on Saturday, May 7. The charity event raised more than $8,800 to be divided between the SAFE Society and the Shuswap Community Foundation.

A former Salmon Arm couple who were convicted of assaulting their 14-year-old daughter by spanking her with a skipping rope and mini hockey stick in 2015, were issued a conditional discharge in provincial court in Salmon Arm Tuesday. The couple will serve 12 months of probation and, if they adhere to all provisions of the probation will have no criminal record. Both parents will be prohibited from applying corporal punishment to anyone under the age of 18 in their care and will be required to provide a DNA sample. They cannot be identified in order to protect their daughter. The couple had been found guilty of assault following a February 2015 incident in which the father found nude photos his daughter had sent to her boyfriend via the mobile app Snapchat. The daughter chose spanking rather than losing her phone for an extended period of time. In the May 10 sentencing hearing, Crown counsel Mariane Armstrong called the parents’ actions a breach of trust with a minor and asked the judge for a three-month conditional sentence to be served in the community, probation and a fine of $50 each. Armstrong acknowledged the parents had shown remorse but, particularly in the case of the mother, believed it stemmed from the resulting publicity rather than her actions. But defence lawyer Ian McTavish asked for an unconditional discharge, saying the whole famSee Probation on page 2

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