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MONTREAL — A Quebec man was sentenced to four months in the community after forcing his eight-year-old daughter to sit at the dinner table for 13 hours over an uneaten serving of brussels sprouts.

In a case described by a judge as “aberrant and disturbing,” the court heard that both sides dug in their heels over the vegetables in January 2016.

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The daughter was not permitted to go to the bathroom as the standoff continued or change her clothes after she’d soiled herself.

The father described the girl as shivering and suffering from hypothermia. The court heard she eventually agreed to eat what was left on her plate after a sleepless night, only to vomit right after.

According to a judgment handed down last January by Quebec court Judge Jean-Francois Gosselin, only then did the 42-year-old father from western Quebec allow the girl to have a shower and go to sleep.

The judgment also noted the father, who was not named to protect the girl’s identity, kept the one remaining sprout on her plate for her to eat upon getting up.