Posted on 02/24/2015 1:06:50 PM PST by redreno
The child arrived at a Florida school Friday with bruises all over. But it was the T-shirt the child was wearing that gave it away.
“I currently have all F’s in all of my classes. I am not aloud to have a boyfriend no time soon,” the shirt read. “So back off before I get another good woopin like I got last night.”
That attempt at public shaming led to the arrest Friday of Melany Joyce Alexander, 31, who was charged with child abuse. She posted a $2,500 bond a day later.
“She beat the child with a belt, and the belt had some sort of metal on it,” said Hernando County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Denise Moloney.
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Shaquanta etc...
Melany Joyce Alexander
I don’t think ‘mom’ is going to be very much help with the homework.
Yep - right where the feelings of the punisher turn from sorrow to enjoyment.
another question, was this kid 10? 13? 16?
She probably got the F’s because she was taught by mommy. Maybe mommy should have hit herself with the belt buckle in the neck.
Don’t think so. Look at the pics of the shirt in question.
dear red reno,
in one report card cycle, in junior high school, I did receive one grade less than a ‘c’, and yes, my active duty GI father (mech eng. the real USC) did dispense his displeasure in said manner.
Needless to say, my grades improved.
The article does not say, does it?
I would guess somewhere between 13 and 15 based on the context of the crap written on the shirt by her mom, but...
I’m not against corporal punishment within reason-but hitting a child with the buckle of a belt, metal or otherwise crosses the line into abuse. My mom, grandmother and aunts used fresh-picked switches from a dogwood bush-lots of sting, but no harm...
Right, child abuse is not corrective at all.
I wouldn’t send a daughter to school with a thin white t-shirt like that. Of course outside of Florida, its winter.
” How many step-fathers are there?? “
NOBODY knows....
I agree-none of us were ever harmed-other than our dignity-and for a bunch of kids on a family ranch, we usually did just fine without close supervision. Today, of course, someone would have arrested my relatives for those few blows of the switch, and for not hiring a nanny to follow a gaggle of kids all over 60+ acres...
Put her in a prison cell with a 300 lb lesbian and force her to wear a TShirt, “I love buckles”
I think those who say parents are too soft on their kids today absolutely do have a valid point. And I think the movement against spanking, and the pathological need to link it with real, severe child abuse, is an atrocious one in all kinds of ways.
However, I think addressing it this way does show a problematic lack of common sense, But that’s just my two cents.
I have mixed feelings about this one.
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