[Texaggie79]

Can anyone find a link to this video? They showed it on FNC a few times and just at the end when the mom is leaning back out of the back seat, you can see the kids legs kicking happily like nothing happened. I'm confused.

[GirlNextDoor]

If store security was following these women out via their surveillance cameras (in order to watch if they caused any damage), as FOX reported, why on earth didn't they go out and STOP her??!!

[wardaddy]

I couldn't tell as much from the video as many here claim other than the the mother was obviously furious.

[TamiPie]

Here's another story out of Long Beach, CA:


http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/091902_nw_child_injured.html


Young Boy Severely Beaten
LONG BEACH — A four-year-old boy is in extremely critical condition. Police say he was severely beaten and he may not survive.
He was rushed to the hospital early Friday morning and taken into surgery.

The boy was visiting his mother in Long Beach. He is possible victim of child abuse, police said.

Paramedics sent to the 400 block of South Street shortly after midnight found the boy unconscious and suffering from "head trauma," and took him to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, said Long Beach police Officer Jana Blair.

A 5-month-old child who was at the South Street location was taken into protective custody, Blair said. That child apparently was unharmed, Blair said.

The boy, a Japanese citizen, had been living with relatives in Japan, but had come to this country to visit his mother, Blair said.

Police interviewed his family members this morning but made no immediate arrests, and the investigation was continuing.

[GovernmentShrinker]

you can see the kids legs kicking happily like nothing happened

Not inconsistent with a seizure resulting from brain injury.

[wardaddy]

I watched it again. I counted around 20 strikes....many at first looked like spanks. The latter ones after she's in the booster chair are harder to tell....they could be fists...I don't know.

20 swats is way more than enough. I usually get my manchild's attention with one or two if the old collar bone pinch doesn't work. And no, I don't do "it" in public.

That's part of the split reaction I'm having to this. If the woman is closed fist striking her child then of course I find that horrible. However if she has just had a mad spanking episode which is no doubt over the top then I question all the hyperbole and nationwide manhunt talk.

Will it come to the point where parents are criminalized for corporal punishment?

There are some children that simply do not respond to verbal persuasion. It's your will against their's. Very tough balance.

This video leaves me with far more questions than answers.

Parent of 3 and 8/9ths children. I spanked my girls with my hand maybe 5 times total in their entire lives (now 13 and 14 and too old to spank...cause they are girls). My 2 and a half year old manchild could be spanked as a matter of course daily. Time-Out is like the proverbial briar patch.

Parenting ain't easy. I'd sure like to know more about this episode other than the woman's hysterical tantrum spanking/striking??

[SerpentDove]

>>...you can see the kids legs kicking happily like nothing happened.<<

How do you know they were kicking "happily?" Could it be they were kcicking "painfully?"

Although I'm sure her defense lawyer will assert the former.

[DallasDeb]

you can see the kids legs kicking happily like nothing happened

Rather, the kid kicked rapidly because she was crying and upset.

[John Lenin]

Just saw the video on FOX. It was a pretty brutal beating for a 4-5 year old little girl.

[KDD]

Can anyone find a link to this video? They showed it on FNC a few times and just at the end when the mom is leaning back out of the back seat, you can see the kids legs kicking happily like nothing happened. I'm confused.

I agree.

You are confused.

[rockfish59]

You have tattoos?