Search: Judge orders mom to lop off daughter's ponytail in court

Valerie Bruno of Price, Utah, received a strange offer from a judge to reduce her 13-year-old daughter's sentence for cutting a 3-year-old's hair off — all she had to do was cut off her own daughter's ponytail in the courtroom (did she do it?). The judge's "eye-for-eye" sentence reduction has been criticized, though some say it was fair (how did the mom respond after the sentencing?).

 

 

Read about how "shame" punishments like hair cutting are reportedly growing more common.

 

Get details on a judge's ruling forcing Nikon to hold a certain photo exhibition.