Mae Confensiwn y Cenhedloedd Unedig ar Hawliau’r Plentyn yn ei gwneud yn glir bod gan blant yr hawl i gael eu diogelu rhag niwed a rhag cael eu brifo, ac mae hynny’n cynnwys eu hamddiffyn rhag cael eu cosbi’n gorfforol. Mae’r hawl honno bellach yn rhan glir o gyfraith Cymru. Dim mwy o ansicrwydd. Dim ‘amddiffyniad cosb resymol’ bellach. Mae hynny i gyd yn y gorffennol. Does dim lle i gosbi corfforol mewn Cymru fodern.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child makes it clear that children have the right to be protected from harm and from being hurt and this includes physical punishment. That right is now enshrined in Welsh law. No more grey areas. No more ‘defence of reasonable punishment.’ That is all in the past. There is no place for physical punishment in a modern Wales.