Posted on 08/23/2011 5:53:52 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska woman was convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor child abuse after squirting hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son as punishment in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on the "Dr. Phil" TV show.
Prosecutors also said defendant Jessica Beagley, 36, of Anchorage made the 7-year-old boy stand in a cold shower when he misbehaved. Both actions were recorded on videotape.
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There are hungry bears in the Alaskan wilderness...
So what’s the over/under on this kid becoming Man vs Food’s newest Adam Richman?
Gave my kids a mouthful of vinegar for no-no words when they were little. Guess that’s a crime today also.
My Russian parents always did their best to nonviolently explain what I was doing wrong. But after repeat failure, the belt was the only thing that made me listen.
If I grew up in today's America, I would probably be drugged and my parents arrested for “abuse”. I grew up dirt poor and would have ended up as a bottom feeder or criminal, like so many youth today.
If it wasn't for that discipline, I wouldn't be who I am today...
“Gave my kids a mouthful of vinegar for no-no words...”
But you didn’t do that to get on t.v. Sounds like this woman poured hot sauce into the child’s mouth and made him hold it in there for a full minute just to get on the Dr. Phil show. People will do crazy stuff to get their “fifteen minutes of fame”. I personally think she should have been convicted if she did this stunt (not as a true punishment) but to get on a television show. IMHO
Yes, well, if she was doing that to the kid to get herself on TV, then she deserves to have her stupid—and cruel—ass kicked.
>>She put the sauce in the kid’s mouth, right?<<
And had him hold it for a minute with his mouth shut. Seriously, I got hot sauce for bad words when I was a kid, but it was just a spot on the tongue and holding it long enough to run to a faucet.
She followed it with cold showers.
All to get on Dr. Phil.
I remember my Grandma making me chew a chili tepino. I learned to watch my language.
Geez, what’s with the hot sauce punishment? Creepy - and dangerous. My mother had only to stare at me to shut me up.
One afternoon after Dr. Guillard had left for his tea, Émile and I were sitting at his desk reading the lesson. François came back into the room. He seemed startled to see us there. He went over to his desk and fumbled around in it for a few seconds. He turned to us holding his grandfather’s silver pencil case then said, “Eh heh! Now I know what you’re doing. You’re cheating. You won’t get away with it. You will see. I already know what I am going to do. You will see!” Then he ran out the door and we heard the Peugeot roar off.
“You will see” was one of the many verbal cudgels used by Liberian mothers to create a sense of guilt and foreboding. It was not as immediately threatening as “I was the one who borned you. I will pepper you tonight.” That had power because one knew what it felt like to be awakened by the burning of powdered red pepper in any or all of at least five sensitive places. The anticipation made the prospect of falling asleep itself a nightmare. Another favorite was, “I will put a slap up against your ear and you will cry blood.” That was threatening, but had little power because we had never seen anyone actually cry blood. But it was the undefined threat of “you will see” and “I already know what I am going to do” that gave them their power. You knew it was going to be something bad, but you didn’t know what. If the person levying the threat had sufficient power, as a mother or a bossy female cousin or a son of a police chief did, the something bad could be very bad indeed. And since it wasn’t yet realized, you felt motivated to do whatever you could to forestall it. This usually ranged from groveling to running away and spending the night in the bush.
I must have looked scared because Émile patted my shoulder and told me not to worry about François. He said that François couldn’t hit very hard and, besides, I was the one doing the punishing now. But I knew that François, as small and bitter as he was, had a more wicked imagination than Émile and that he would find a way to inflict pain that didn’t depend on the velocity of his down-stroke.
The next morning I found out what it was.
Just saw the videotape of the mother shoving her little boy into a shower. And what did I REALLY see? A future woman-hating gay man and/or a sociopath. The humiliation that woman inflicted on her child was disgusting.
Why did the nuns of the ‘50s and ‘60s have 50 children in one room and scare us all half to death without raising a hand? And some of us were craaaaaaaaaaazy.
Humiliation is NEVER an option.
>>In Africa, the mouth is the least of the places you have to worry about getting ground red pepper. I know one boy who was covered in it and had to stand in the sun for hours. <<
Goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s horrible!
What was it?! I can’t stand the suspense!
I can’t keep the hot sauce OUT of my 20 year old son’s mouth. Man, can he pack that stuff away. He sure didn’t get that from Mom & Dad.
It was not just a dap that she was putting on her child. I am glad that she was convicted. Not because of this necessarily but because the idiot went on Dr. Phil to spill the beans. How dumb is she.
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