An army corporal, Jorge Rodriguez Contreras, and a civilian lawyer, Gloria Urrego were taken along with the general, but a soldier who piloted the vessel escaped and alerted authorities, the minister said.
A review of 88 studies investigating the effects of corporal punishment concluded that although punishing children physically often leads to immediate compliance with parental demands, this "good behaviour" was rarely maintained in the long term as children failed to internalise moral norms and social rules.
But corporal punishment in the home is legal in all 50 states, with murky caveats.
According to the office of the attorney general of Texas: "Any form of corporal punishment may be abusive if it results in injury".
Jayant was also hailed for outlawing the use of corporal punishment in schools, in Naushad Ali v State (2002), which has been cited by children's rights organisations including Save the Children, and used in Australian parliamentary submissions.
For five years he had served as a corporal in Joseph Kony's ranks, tasked with leading groups of 11-year-olds in attacks on vehicles and, on occasion, clubbing prisoners to death.
There are state laws against corporal punishment in schools in all but 19 states, but almost all of the states in which it remains legal are in the south – including Texas.
Over there!" a corporal from the west African state of Sierra Leone, one of the smaller contributors to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), shouted.
Alzate, who was travelling as a civilian along with a corporal and civilian lawyer, was approached by a small group of men shortly after arriving in the village of Las Mercedes on Sunday afternoon, residents of the village told local news media.
An Old Bailey jury found him guilty along with Paul Brunt, a former lance corporal in the Household Cavalry regiment, who tipped him off with stories about Prince Harry.
The ruling has not been re-tested since, and there are still no federal statutes governing corporal punishment in children.
