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10/20/2008: "Lawyer respected her baby daughter's right to be naked in a cold draught"
Authorities recently stopped a lawyer on her bicycle when they noticed her riding through town in chilly weather with her naked baby in the child seat, Munich police said on Thursday.
The one-and-a-half-year-old appeared miserably cold, according to police reports, with her "nose running down to her lips" and her "mouth blue at the corners." A police car thermometer read 11 degrees Celsius (52 degrees Fahrenheit) at the time, with what the report describes as "an unpleasant wind chill."
The mother, a 32-year-old lawyer from Schwabing, told officers her daughter had refused to let anyone dress her, explaining that children have individual rights as well, which is why she accepted her daughter's wish to remain undressed.
[ Is this the logical conclusion of the obsession with protecting children's rights? Presumably forcing her child to dress would be an assault! But of course it is not considered as such, and this mother faces being investigated for neglect and abuse. The law gets in such a muddle sometimes! ]
http://www.thelocal.de/14951/20081016/