[Cincinatus' Wife]

Girl's tantrum paints picture of failing home - "a brat in a snit"

VIDEO LINKS: Mom, 5-year-old girl in video fires lawyer, moving out of state

[poobear]

"There's going to be bigger and better things."
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[Mad Mammoth]

Mom, 5-year-old girl in video fires lawyer, moving out of state

Watch out kid, the next scam might involve you donating a finger for a bowl of Wendy's chili.

[BigSkyFreeper]

WOW!! Just Damn!!

[This Just In]

"...she's an inexperienced and unsophisticated young woman who is being taken advantage of..."

She may also be an inexperienced and unsophisticated young woman taking advantage of the situation by exploiting her daughters story.

By all accounts, it appears the mother carries at least some of the blame for her daughters behavior. But to be fair, we should not discount the fact that the absent fathers in this case are responsible as well. God created both mother AND father for a great reason.

[MisterRepublican]

What? You mean the liberal news media's campaign to make her the new Rodney King isn't working?

[garylmoore]

I saw the video and I think that after they handcuffed her they should have put her across the knee and given her an old fasion spanking. Spare the rod, spoil the child. Let's face it, the kid is a brat that needs more than handcuffing.

[King Prout]

Trevena said. "She may be the best mother on the planet."

wow... well, MY mother raised two kids on her own for eight years, both by the same father, never went to jail, never associated with drug users/dealers, neither I nor my sister ever had this kind of disciplinary problem in kindergarten or elementary school, oh - and my mother can speak proper English (which this woman, as one can tell by listening to her taped remarks rather than reading a heavily redacted hardcopy, clearly cannot)... what does that make her, the best mother in the Universe?

geesh, what a dumbass remark... even for a lawyer.

[MissEdie]

I am really happy someone is placing the blame where it needs to be, it was obvious from that child's behavior she has not been taught to respect authority or how to behave in public. I had a good friend who is a teacher attacked by a 5 year-old in a school hallway, she was hit, kicked, bitten, and clawed to the extent she needed medical attention (which involved an HIV and a Hepatitis test). This same 5 year-old has attacked other school personnel- sending an Assistant Principal and 3 other teachers to hospitals for x-rays, etc.

[ViLaLuz]

"In addition to the 5-year-old girl, Akins has a son, 4, and another daughter, 3. Pinellas court records show she has been trying without success to collect child support from two St. Petersburg men who are the fathers of the children. The father of the 5-year-old has been arrested more than a dozen times since 1995, mostly on drug charges."

Yet another example of the result of going against God's plan for family.

[Dustbunny]

I am outraged that the mother had the audacity to sue.

How dare she put the blame for a child that was totally out of control on others. She is clearly to blame for not teaching her child the difference between right and wrong behavior. Maybe the cuffs will make the child think twice before pulling something like this again.

[TalBlack]

- the embattled assistant principal, the crying classroom teacher, the tough-talking police officer, the irascible kindergartener - Akins' role as the serious single mom seeking justice for her child has been widely panned.


A society that doesn't know right from wrong (anymore) goes down the crapper.

50 years ago there would be no story here. The teacher would have had the power to discipline unruly kids. If that failed the parents would have been told to come and get their kid. The cops were only called if some law had been violated. But then the "mother" would not have even had custody of the kid in the first place because she would not have been considered fit to raise her.

Once children were seen to be as-yet unformed assets to society's future and as such their environment was protected to the greatest degree possible. Now they are just little people, thrown out there among the big people to pretty much shift for themselves. What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to PC... Every iota of this sad story (sadder to the society that no longer has the moral perspective to truly appreciate it) flows from left-wing PC lies.

[JoeGar]

Akins appeared with Jesse Jackson, who asked her, "What are you doing now about it, Inga?"

Actually, Jackson asked, "What are you ... going to do ... when you are through ... cying boo-hoo, ... Inga Poo?

[JoeSixPack1]

Well, her inability to take the time to tend to her daughter because of her employment obligations didn't stop or even slow her down from traveling to NYC and tending to her TV interview schedule.

[alicewonders]

This kid doesn't have a chance to grow up to be worth anything. She's being told by her mother & others that teachers & principals are bad.....police are bad.....she's going to grow up to be another criminal that the taxpayer will get to support her whole life through.

These children should be taken from their worthless mother. The problem is that it's probably too late to change their behaviour. How many taxpayers will it take to support this child throughout her life?

[Freee-dame]

Asked what she tells her daughter now, Akins said: "I tell her to try to keep her head up. There's going to be bigger and better things."

What happened to "Behave yourself" ?

[Xenalyte]

On Monday evening's show, she said problems between her daughter and the assistant principal, Nicole Debenedetto, forced her hand. "I tried getting her school changed. I tried getting her class changed. (The school district) wouldn't do anything to help me."

Then you know what, Inga? You HAVE TO make her behave in class.

It's your job as a mother - and ONLY your job, as a single mother - to ensure that your set-up little baby learns from a very early age that you can't always get what you want.

Now go forth and blame us not for your failings.

[Xenalyte]

Wow, I get further down and find out that Miss Atkins is quite the scofflaw.

I should not be surprised to learn that she was never married to either baby daddy.

[dljordan]

"On those who say she's trying to make money from the case: "Get paid for what? I want justice."

No justice, no peace!

[ImaTexan]

ping

[sandydipper]

If that had been me throwing the tantrum - the next scene would have been of my dad beating me with his belt while he apologised to the school - the teacher and the cops. No GMA no Current Affair - no attorneys - no settlement - just blisters on the butt.