[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Unless there's a typo in that article, the 50 children belong to the defendantS, plural, not one defendant.

Also, if they actually did what they were accused of doing, it was not simply a matter of shaving someone's beard or cutting someone's hair. It was PHYSICAL ASSAULT. You put your hands on me without my consent, hold me down, restrain me against my will, in order to do things to me that I don't want done - well, I don't care what those things are, that's irrelevant. The crime is in forcing them on someone who is unwilling to undergo them. And given that all of this appears to have been done as a part of a "campaign" to enforce one person's will on other unwilling people, I got no problem with the person responsible getting a 15 year sentence.

I agree. This problem goes deeper than hair cutting. Sentence well deserved.