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Man slaps stranger’s crying kid
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | September 2, 2009 | Katie Leslie

Posted on 09/02/2009 5:45:31 AM PDT by GoldStandard

A Gwinnett County man is in custody Wednesday accused of slapping a stranger’s crying toddler in a Stone Mountain Wal-Mart.

Witnesses say that Roger Stephens, 61, warned the mother of the child that he would “shut up the crying child if she couldn’t,” WSB-TV is reporting. Stephens is accused of slapping the 2-year-old multiple times in the face and then walking away.

A bystander held Stephens until store security came to assist, according to the story.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: brat; childabuse; freeroger; rogerstephens; walmart
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To: The G Man
He looks like Harrison Ford's ugly brother.

And folks, I would bet that this is not the first time this guy has come to police attention (domestic problems? assault? DWI?)...

41 posted on 09/02/2009 6:16:43 AM PDT by Pharmboy ("When I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself..." Prof. G. Thorogood, Univ. of Delaware)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I totally agree. You remember the scene from “Kindergarten Cop” where Arnold confronts the abusive father? After Arnold decks the scum he says, “You hit him, I hit you.”

Heck, I have an 8 year old who has caused us to stop taking her shopping because she still wants to touch everything, and when we try to stop her she causes a scene. Well, no shopping for her.


42 posted on 09/02/2009 6:18:01 AM PDT by fredhead (Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
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To: armymarinemom

If the old codger didn’t want to deal with kids, He should have been shopping at Sax and not walmart. I hope they throw the book at this guy.

Everyone has been agrivated by someone elses kid, hell everyone has been aggrivated by their own kids crying. However you don’t just go slapping someone elses kid when their parent is around, no matter how much you think they deserve it.

This guy is the jacka$$ who always stole your ball as a kid if they landed in his yard.


43 posted on 09/02/2009 6:18:16 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Tax-chick
Walmart, where there are - egad! - families with young children

Depends on the Walmart you go to. There is one near here that's bad. Kids are out of control, over-sized moms cruise the bakery section and not a father within 5 miles.

44 posted on 09/02/2009 6:18:21 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: wardaddy
My boys are in their 30's and still get pinched when out of line. 38 and 34 and still run when they see Mom coming. My 24 yr old girl seldom got a swat.

With the grandkids, I just look at them and say "Hey!" and they stop. Must be cause they've seen Dad run. :-)

45 posted on 09/02/2009 6:19:09 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: HamiltonJay
Everyone has been agrivated by someone elses kid, hell everyone has been aggrivated by their own kids crying. However you don’t just go slapping someone elses kid when their parent is around, no matter how much you think they deserve it.

And if you're going to slap anyone, slap the parent for not controlling their kid. But of course this guy wouldn't have the 'nads to do it.

46 posted on 09/02/2009 6:20:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Pharmboy

Exactly, a man that will walk up and slap someone else’s kid, is a dangerous man with major temper and control issues.


47 posted on 09/02/2009 6:20:24 AM PDT by kara37
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To: Drango

Some people won’t take it that way.

Rightwingers want to beat other people’s kids, on Huffington Post tomorrow.


48 posted on 09/02/2009 6:20:39 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: GoldStandard

because, you know, slapping a two-year-old always helps calm them down.


49 posted on 09/02/2009 6:21:47 AM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: dfwgator

But why slap the parent if the child is crying because they are hungry or tired? Life doesn’t always follow a schedule.


50 posted on 09/02/2009 6:23:30 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: GoldStandard

because, you know, slapping a two-year-old always helps calm them down.

I suppose for Huffington’s sake, I should post a sarcasm tag.


51 posted on 09/02/2009 6:23:59 AM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: wardaddy
it’d be interesting to see who on this thread has children and who doesn’t.

I agree. Don't people realize this is a TWO year old child...a little girl who was slapped by a strange grown man. They don't simply stop crying because someone wants them too. This man should have had the tar slapped out of him before security got there. He had no business disciplining someone else's child. Even if it was his child, he should never hit a two year old in the face. Where are the REAL men in the world these days...far too feminized an America we live in when grown poor excuse's of men can slap someone else's children and some other real man doesn't beat the tar out of him immediately. Slapping tiny children in the face and then getting accolades for it...disgusting.

52 posted on 09/02/2009 6:24:44 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: dangus
because, you know, slapping a two-year-old always helps calm them down.

LOL!!

When we are shopping and there's a crying child, Hubby always says "Somebody's unhappy".

53 posted on 09/02/2009 6:25:10 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: armymarinemom

Thing is, that man had the option of leaving, the poor mother was stuck.


54 posted on 09/02/2009 6:28:09 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: GoldStandard

I certainly hope this guy never had any kids of his own. If he could do this to a stranger’s kid in public, think what he would do to his own. And thank goodness for the bystander who detained him.


55 posted on 09/02/2009 6:28:45 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: jacknhoo

well said....I have sure never slapped a two year old in the face


56 posted on 09/02/2009 6:30:49 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: GoldStandard

I shudder to think what my wife would have done to that guy if it was one of our kids.... he’d be taking a ride in an ambulance, without a doubt.


57 posted on 09/02/2009 6:34:12 AM PDT by AussieJoe
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To: DJ MacWoW

lol...we alwasy say “somebody ain’t happy”

you can tell by the cry if it is pain, tired, fear or temper


58 posted on 09/02/2009 6:34:19 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: DJ MacWoW

I’ve found that some encouraging words to a parent obviously stuck in that situation helps. Somebody did that for me when I was a brand-new parent and it gave me the strength to get through it without doing something stupid.

Now that girl, who screamed for an hour outside of the laundromat when she was about a year old, is perfectly behaved.


59 posted on 09/02/2009 6:37:39 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: wardaddy
you can tell by the cry if it is pain, tired, fear or temper

Yup.

60 posted on 09/02/2009 6:41:11 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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