In a stunning illustration of what happens when politically correct and biased judges, driven by leftist social agendas, are put behind the bench, one jurist has ordered two homeschooling parents to jail for 50 days for failing to teach their daughters the judge’s version of “gender” education.

The parents now have convictions for “intellectual neglect,” issued by the unidentified Brazilian judge, according to a report from ADF International.

The legal team reported the judge issued his wild opinion that was opposite of even recommendations from prosecutors, who listened to witnesses and results of the social and academic development of the girls, both accomplished pianists who speak multiple languages, and then said the parents should be acquitted.

The judge was accepting no evidence, however, and said the parents were “using their daughters as pawns in an ideological struggle, subjecting them to a form of unregulated education, the effectiveness and quality of which lack adequate metrics within the Brazilian legal system, while completely excluding the State’s involvement.”

The report identified the parents as Audato and Ieda Denardi, and their sentences are suspended while they appeal to a higher court.

The judge also ranted against the parents because he thought the girls, ages 11 and 15, didn’t like Brazilian folk music, leading him to assume that they weren’t educated properly in “diversity.”

Their sentence, from a lower court in Sao Paul in April, now is pending before the 7 Cãmara Criminal do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo, the highest state court, the legal team said.

“As a mother, I cannot conceive a more dictatorial state than the one that wants me in jail because I chose to exercise my right to direct the education and upbringing of my daughters. My husband and I are hopeful the court will recognize our right to choose the best education for our children and overturn this unjust conviction,” Ieda Denardi said.

The case already has attracted the attention of lawmakers in Brazil, with recent hearings on the issue of homeschooling. A law specifically allowing those actions was adopted in the House of Representatives in 2022 but has not moved through the Senate, leaving homeschool families in Brazil in a legal gray area.

Julio Pohl, who works with ADF International in Latin America, said, “The prosecutor examined the witnesses and recommended for acquittal. An independent educational psychologist found no sign of neglect. The girls themselves described rigorous daily education. The judge convicted anyway – because a fifteen-year-old said she finds some music lyrics morally questionable, and because the curriculum didn’t include state-approved content on gender.”

He called it a “grotesque abuse” of the law.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has said homeschool does not violate the nation’s constitution, but a federal law is needed to regulate it, which lawmakers have yet adopted.