Mother to surrender in videotaped beating of girl

Associated Press ^ | September 21, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Mother to surrender in videotaped beating of girl

09/21/2002

Associated Press

MISHAWAKA, Ind. - A woman seen on a department store security tape punching her 4-year-old daughter plans to surrender Saturday, her attorney said Friday night.

Police have been searching for Madelyne Gorman Toogood since Sept. 13, when a camera in a department store parking lot videotaped her punching and shaking her 4-year-old daughter.

The attorney, Stephen Rosen, said Ms. Toogood is on her way to Chicago and will surrender. She is charged with felony battery to a child.

Indiana police took the search nationwide Wednesday when they released the tape. "We want to get the girl the medical attention she needs," Police Chief Anthony A. Hazen said. "We want to get her to an emergency room and let them examine her."

Ms. Toogood is also wanted in Texas on at least two warrants. Fort Worth police said one warrant involves a shoplifting charge in March. Authorities in White Settlement, a Fort Worth suburb, issued an arrest warrant on an unspecified Class C misdemeanor.

Ms. Gorman's sister, 31-year-old Margaret Daley, who authorities say was present at the time of the incident, was arrested and charged with failure to report child abuse.

Police received more than 1,000 calls about the video, which was first aired Wednesday night.

Staff writer Laurie Fox contributed to this report.

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Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/092102dnnatbeating.86c.html

[Conservative til I die]

Maybe I missed something in VRWC's post. I'm a firm believer in corporal punishment—but how can you confuse spanking with what this woman did? Perhaps he's reacting to the lack of discipline all around us, which upsets me too.

I think what it is with a lot of conservatives is a knee-jerk reaction. There's too much black/white thinking on FR, where if you don't swing to one extreme (beating kids is good ol fashioned parenting) then you must be a child grabbing, secret CPS agent liberal Marxist who wants to abolish the traditional family structure.

[EllaMinnow]

http://www.wndu.com/news/092002/news_16252.php


"Incident inside Kohl's department store

There is also more information on the story behind the security tape at Kohl's department store. The tapes were rolling when Gorman and Daley left the store because, according to the prosecutor, the suspect tried to return some items in exchange for money but she was denied. Toth said, "We believe it was just part of a scam to try to just get some money where no money was due. Because they had their suspicions about her, then obviously they followed her into the parking lot with a camera. Thank God we caught this on camera."

[Conservative til I die]

start around post #5 actually. Good guess !!

Thanks. ANd just so no one thought I made that post *after* seeing post #5, in this case I responded to each post as I saw them. So I was in fact responding without reading past the first response.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Frightening, isn't it.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

He's going on the word of a mother who shoplifts, lives as a gypsy and beats her child...hmmm, real credible.

[EllaMinnow]

From the same article:

Det. Chief Mike Samp of the Mishawaka Police Department said, "The sister felt that we misinterpreted the video and that it wasn't as bad as it appeared on the video. She was not really striking the child. She was brushing something off the headrest."

"Brushing something off the headrest"

Beyond satire...

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

"I think we all need to put our tin-foil hats on and realize how much that "unobtrusive" camera in the KMart parking lot can forever change your family's life."

If you beat your kid in a public parking lot, your family's life should be changed!

[budwiesest]

If a camera had been in the parking lot of a Kmart a few years ago it would have captured a man beating his son in the front seat of his truck. I mean wailing on him (10-11 yr. old).

The camera would also have captured my friend Danny pulling the father out of the truck and beating the crap out of him with a club that he usually reserved for his rowdy bar patrons. Danny had been beaten by various 'friends' of his mother while growing up. It took his younger brother to get him off the guy.

Moral of story: go ahead, lose it with your kid ('cause it's easy) but you might want to be looking over your shoulder once in a while.

[Cultural Jihad]

Imagine that. Self-avowed libertarians who are defending both fraud and the initiation of force. Their whole moral construct is based upon one idea alone, and is shared by Trotskyites: "If they're fer it, then I'm agin' it!"

[Paul Atreides]

Yep. That's right. Because, those cameras, in a public place mind you, are a deterrent to a lot of criminals, just as free gun ownership deters a lot of criminials. Now, a lot of people are killed accidentally, by others with guns, or by themselves. Does that mean I am going to say that all gun ownership should be abolished? Nope! By the same token, if I have a mother, sister, or daughter walking through the parking lot, by themselves, I will feel a lot safer knowing that some rapist/murderer/thief is wary about trying something there, because of those cameras.

Which brings to mind: why are such paranoid people, such as you and the others you agree with on this thread, even on the Internet? Don't you know that Big Brother is watching?

[eddie willers]

"she was brushing something off the headrest"

The head.

[Paul Atreides]

Ha! They're just p.o.'ed because that camera could have caught someone flaming up a joint, and they're scared it might have been them.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

It's their video. They can run and show it to whomever they'd like.

I think we have some guilty consciences here on FR today. It's morphing into a support for a woman who punched her little girl in the face repeatedly.

[Cultural Jihad]

Yep. It's a knee-jerk reaction they seem to have with any story which reads: "Police searching for ..."

[MeekOneGOP]

You are an idiot.

LOL !! Let's put some music to that.....

[Paul Atreides]

You should have heard the excuses yesterday!

"She might have been swatting at a bee."

"She was working with the car seat."

Now, we are hearing "Sure she punched her kid. So what?"

[Under the Radar]

I post this with no malice. However, I do invite you to investigate your local CPS. Unfortunately, the reality is very different from the the ideal. And I think you will find that placing children in foster care places them in more danger than they would be had they stayed with their parents.

Your response may be: "Severely physically, sexually, and mentally abused in foster care is better than dead at the hands of your mother." That may be true, but be aware that that is what we are saying when we scream to have a child removed from his parents.