Fraudulent Punishment
The new corporal punishment legislation has provided a method of income for Lauren, but at what cost?
As she handed over the ID document she'd been given and the summons document along with the Warrant for Corporal Punishment, Laurens pulse quickened. This was the fourth time she had been standing in the reception of one of the newly formed Punishment Centre inside 12 months. The ID was checked against the name on the summons and the warrant and then casually handed back to her, the officer behind the desk, barely taking a second glance after all -- who would be stupid enough to want to con their way into a punishment centre for a judicial caning? Well, she would. Her pulse slowed to not total panic level and she took a deep breath.
The Corporal Punishment (Summary Justice) Regulations (2019) was a piece of legislation that she had become extremely familiar with having studied it at length. This allowed, as the name suggests, for corporal punishment to be ordered by the courts and in some cases, even be offered as an alternative to full prosecution. Then followed an amendment to the Road Traffic act that made anyone caught speeding up to the age of 26 the subject of a Corporal Punishment Order. This was in response to statistics and to discourage speeding by young drivers. There is no option of a fine and no option for any other penalty, unless the person is medically exempt, but the involved a week in solitary confinement in a prison, so most people felt healthy enough to take the basic 12 strokes of the cane.
Lauren had been caught speeding herself in the first week of the new and revised legislation. In a moment of distraction she had passed the police car doing 35 in a 30 and had soon found herself strapped naked over a punishment bench taking 12 strokes of the cane in a room of other young adults facing the same fates. It had hurt a lot. But it also thrilled her. She found herself more sexually aroused by being caned than she had ever been. It surprised and shamed her in equal measure.
While her fellow students at university did bar work around their studies to make money, she had found that people were willing to pay to have her impersonate them and get their caning on their behalf. It was brilliant. She got paid very well for taking a caning and got to enjoy it for weeks afterwards.
So, as she stood in front of the officer behind the desk who was patiently tapping away on her keyboard, she began to calm her breathing and think about what was about to happen to her bum at the hands of the state with a feeling of trepidation and portion of excitement. The girl who should be in her place was someone she vaguely knew from uni -- a girl in her senior year of her degree. She had been introduced by her friend and agreed the fee that would see A complete the repayments on her student loan and perhaps have enough money for that new dress she'd seen in preparation for the ball at the end of next month.
She was snapped out of her thoughts when the officer said something that almost stopped her heart and sent a spike of ice right into her tummy. "Rebecca Cooke, having pleaded guilty administratively to a speeding charge of level 2 and being of prescribed age, you have been sentenced to receive a level 2 corporal punishment. You will be collected by an officer in a few minutes. Please take a seat". Lauren nodded to the officer, dazed and sat down. Her mind raced, how could she have been so stupid. She's assumed that the girl, Rebecca, had been caught marginally above the speed limit. She hadn't thought to ask. Her friend had introduced them.
The punishments were graded. For up to 15% above the speed limit, a person would get 12 strokes. This was level 1. A level 2 offence was for 'greater than 15%' and the penalty for that is graduated. So, she had no idea what she was to expect. Her breathing sped up, she began to feel faint. She needed to calm down quick. She hadn't read the warrant -- she had just assumed...
She thought about going back to ask the officer, but that would surely give away that she was not Rebecca. She rapidly thought through her options which were pretty much non, unless she wanted to go to prison for fraud.
She forced herself to calm down. How bad could it be. The whole point of this system is to be a deterrent for speeding -- it's hardly the crime of the century. The caning hurt like hell at the time, but each time she had been caned it had aroused her and she was wet when she got dressed again afterwards. She had enjoyed her stripes for a couple of weeks and it was sore to sit in lectures but that wasn't the end of the world.
She wasn't sure if she'd been conned or whether it was a genuine misunderstanding on the part of Rebecca. She was wondering how she could increase her fee now that she was here, when she heard Rebecca's name being called. Well -- is too late now she thought -- here we go.
A male officer was stood at the door out of reception into the changing room. She needed to remember that she wasn't supposed to know what was what, Rebecca having never been punished before, so she fixed what she hoped was a scared look on her face and walked towards him.
Once through the door, it locked behind her. There was a desk in the room with a senior female officer sitting behind it. She looked Lauren over as she walked across the room to stand in front of the desk as directed by the male officer.
"Are you Rebecca Cooke of 22 Bibly Road?" the senior officer asked?
"yes" lied Lauren.
"You are here to face a level 2 corporal punishment. There is some paperwork to be done and then I will give you a briefing which I am sure will address some of your questions."
Lauren was handed a medical declaration form and signed Rebecca's name that she had no medical conditions that would prevent her taking corporal punishment.
As the officer looked over the form, Lauren felt a familiar excitement begin and began to anticipate the bondage and the punishment that was to come.
"Ok. All that seems in order. So, you are now going to need to strip. From this point forward you will be naked until your release from the centre upon completion of the punishment."
This came as a surprise to Lauren as the last times she had done this, she had been required to remove her clothes much later in the punishment room itself. That said, this is the first time she had been at this particular centre. She hesitated a bit, the first moment of dread arriving sooner than anticipated, but began to remove her clothes.