No, it is quite a bit more worse sounding when he is accused of "tying" her hair to the handle. It requires considerably more effort and considerably more "meanness", and I'm sure that is why the busy body made that accusation. She wanted what he was doing to appear worse than it was.
If you want to play word games with that find someone else interested in such lunacy.
That some people think this rises to the level of abuse is already lunacy. "Lunacy" is baked into this cake.
Forget CPS, to heck with them. Anyone with a functioning brain and a conscience can see from the photos that what he did isn’t right, that it was abuse.
It is unconventional, but hardly "abuse." The girl will suffer no serious injury, and have no serious trauma over this. She will laugh about it years later.
All he needs and deserves is a trial by his peers who, if they have the aforementioned brain and conscience, after seeing these photos, would do the right thing and issue a verdict of “guilty of child abuse”.
I would prefer to see charges filed against anyone accusing this man of "abuse" for such a silly thing. It does a disservice to the concept of "abuse" to equate it to such a frivolous thing. This is little different than filing a frivolous lawsuit and their ought to be punishment for people who assert these frivolous accusations.
It’s TORTURE!!! Bypass the courts and send him straight to the chair!
I guess I torture my daughter every Saturday when I put her hair up for ballet. Dumb move on this dad’s part, but I would be happy to take folks on some field trips if they want to see or hear about real abuse. Bad diagnosis and criminal malpractice on the response, folks.
You may as well sell the child to an Eastern European slave trader as call CPS. That is one sure way to ruin a family and ensure the children are actually abused and 90% more likely to become criminals themselves.