True, and it set an example to her other pawn in the palace that even she can't save them when the Emperor take the matters to her hand.Cruel, and the mother deserves those lashes more. But this reduces her power in the court, if she could not protect the people she made do her dirty work who, in the future, would be willing to carry it out. They should have ratted out the mother but they relied on her being able to save them.
yeah, in a code geass fanfic i've read it's just 22 lashes80 lashes is wild lol