If we’re worried about battery, why not consider giving a child food that er religion forbids? Or suggesting the child pray to another God? Or some other example where touching isn’t a problem.
There’s still a continuum - “It’s ok, fish isn’t meat” or “It’s ok, your parents wouldn’t mind” or “Meat? No, none here, honestly”
re: the witch question, is it in any way analogous to threatening bolily harm to someone? Isn’t there a law against that, such as threatening to murder someone?
A witch’s curse could be seen as an assault, but IIRC assault requires a reasonable belief on the part of the alleged victim that there was some actual danger of harm. That I suppose would be a question for the jury, whether a reasonable person would believe that a spoken curse had the potential of causing actual harm.
OK, in THIS case…
The school suspension would come under the classification of an administrative sanction for violating conduct regulations, which could simply forbid being verbally abusive to other students. No “crime” here, just misbehavior.
Hmmmm…
Hope this isn’t a hijack, but…
I bet, at least in the mid west where I come from, if a child got a Satanic blessing involving nothing innappropriate, then there would be hell to pay, including charges of Satanic abuse.
Any thoughts on it looking from that perspective?
Are you suggesting that it is against the law to abuse satan? (re: “…charges of Satanic Abuse”)
And if so, who would be the complaining party? Would satan actually respond to a subpoena? 