Submitted to being punished for a second offence (4,3)

'submitted' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'punished for a second offence' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'for' could be 'to' (eg both can mean 'in the opinion of') and 'to' is found within the answer.
'second' could be 's' (common abbreviation) and 's' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'to being' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?