Posted on 06/30/2016 10:43:43 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard
An Arkansas woman was taken to jail for using a switch on her great-granddaughter, who she says was misbehaving.
Police say the girl has visible welts on her arm.
Norma Toussaint, 70, says she's not a bad person, but says she did pull a switch off her front hedges, stripped the leaves and used it to punish her 12-year-old great-granddaughter.
"I went back in the house and whooped her on her arm," Toussaint said.
Upset, the girl threatened to dial 911.
"I asked, I said, 'You want to call the police on me?' And she said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Call them then,'" Toussaint said.
At least four Hot Springs police officers showed up to the home Monday morning, KARK-TV reports. According to an incident report, Toussaint and the girl both told police it stemmed from the 12-year-old not throwing away food and talking back.
"I said, 'You gonna give me some lip by what you're not going to do?' They do this to you; they think they can do anything with it and get away with it," Toussaint said.
KARK reports hundreds of people disagree with the decision to arrest the grandmother, commenting on the Facebook post about the arrest. The most-liked comments include one who said, "She has learned that she can be a brat and the grandmother or any adult can't punish her!"
Another wrote, "I had a switch used on me so many times when I was young that it kept the trees pruned in the yard."
Yet another wrote, "Reading this article just angers me. She disciplined her granddaughter. That's it. This world is backwards."
Toussant said an officer told her she should have done it on the girl's bottom, but she says she's not going to do it again.
"I don't think I want to go to jail again, but she got to learn some kind of authority, you know what I'm saying?" Toussaint said.
The great-grandmother is now facing a felony domestic battery charge. A no-contact order was also filed against her. She has more than two dozen great grandchildren, a number of whom she has helped raise. The girl is staying with another relative in the meantime.
Better to be beaten up upstairs than in jail. Just sayin.
If I was one of the cops I would have warned the little brat that if she ever disobeyed her great grandma again, she would get arrested and thrown in jail.........
Thank you! One of my greatest questions answered!
Sicilian heritage?
I wonder what the statute of limitations is on getting switched. I have about 3000 counts to file against my dad, including mental cruelty for making me cut my own switch.
LUCKY YOU!
They make awesome switches!...................
I think it was Hope, AR.
Cucchiara means “TABLESPOON” in Corsican....................
Yup. All 4 grandparents.
My grandparents were from Sicily.
So do the damn dogwood ones-I always hated the way they were very flexible-whistled through the air and was like a bee sting you could feel through shorts and on bare legs...
I sent this as a private reply to someone. I meant to make it public.
Johnny wants to be a builder
Did you hear about little Johnny? He is four years old. He was bugging Mother so she said, “Johnny, why don’t you go across the street and watch the builders work. Maybe you’ll learn something.”
Johnny was gone about 2 hours. When he came home his Mother asked him what he learned.
Johnny replied, “Well, first you put the ******* door up, then the son of a ***** doesn’t fit, so you have to take the **** sucker back down. Then you have to take a **** hair off each side and put the Mother ***** back up.
“Johnny’s Mother said, “you wait til your Dad comes home.”
When Johnny’s dad got home, mom told him to ask Johnny what he learned across the street.
Johnny told his dad the whole story.
Dad said, “Johnny, you go outside and get the switch.”
Johnny replied, “**** you, that’s the Electrician’s job.”
“Anyone here remember them switches? You used to have to go get off the tree yourself and take them leaves like that? I see them trees today, I will kill one of them m####f#####s, I will stop the car—say, ‘Wait, hold it!’ *Starts violently shaking the tree* You ain’t never gonna grow up! You won’t be beating nobody’s ass!”
-Richard Pryor
I’m always snippy! I’m sure you’ve noticed that by now.
I’m sorry, but the fact that the police involved seem to be OK with this is just another example of an out of control state. I’m sure you don’t see it that way, but I do. I’m sick to death of unaccountable brownshirts that want to micromanage every single aspect of our lives.
Makes sense. Not far from Corsica....................
Here in The South, dogwoods are practically considered holy, so no dogwood switches to be used. Hickory is common, I have one in front of my house I need to get rid of..................................
I had a switch used on me many times. Had stripes on the legs from it. Boy did they sting and yes they left little welts.
Lotta people really dote on the grandkids, but then it’s open season on generations after that.
LOL
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