Flutterby™! : mother acquitted in piercing daughter

Jay sent this along with an "I think this is on your beat" note, but I'm not sure I can come up with anything other than "WTF?": Mother acquitted in case involving daughter's genitalia piercing, the mother did it "to make intercourse uncomfortable", and had previously shaved her daughter's head to make her less attractive. This is one where a few hundred words really isn't sufficient for me to even start thinking about this, the reaction of the jury indicates that the girl was painted in a pretty harsh light:

"Maybe it was not the best decision in the world," foreman Colin Kelly said afterward. "But the intent was to try to stop a girl who was completely out of control... Are you going to put every parent in jail for making a bad decision?"

but it seems like at the very least there are some risk issues here, and a lot of questions over the responsibilities and abilities of the parent that I just don't have answers to.