Creative Punishment

Yikes. Here is an article that I found on Warren Ellis' site:


A 16-year-old Idaho girl was tied up and scalped by an older woman in an attack motivated by revenge, police said.

Authorities are searching for Marianne Dahle, 26, who was visiting Kirkham Hot Springs in central Idaho Jan. 18 with the girl and a friend when Dahle allegedly tied the girl up and cut away the entire crown and back portion of her scalp.

“When I say this gal was scalped, she was truly scalped,” said Boise County Chief Deputy Bill Braddock. “The top of her head, her hair, was completely cut off. The motive, as near as we’ve been told by witnesses, was retaliation for acting in a way that the adult perceived as being offensive to women as a gender.”

“It was an act of revenge. I view this as a case where an adult female is using predatory control – both psychological and sexual – toward juvenile victims. There are definitely sexual overtones to this crime.” Braddock said.

“I’ve been doing this for 32 years now and this is certainly a very unusual case. I’ve never even heard of another scalping. I really do think this is an aberration, of one very controlling female who preys on young juvenile females.”

Though Idaho’s mayhem law bans “depriving a human being of a member of his body,” Braddock said he expected Dahle would be charged with aggravated battery, which carries the same maximum sentence of 14 years but requires a lesser burden of proof in court…