You fellows are just not thinking this through very well. Let us see how you will feel if your kids or grandkids are taken by CPS for frivilous reasons and you go broke fighting to get the kids back from a system that holds all the cards.
Do not let the details of a single case warp your standards of right and wrong.
If you believe that the government, state, federal, or otherwise, has the power to remove child from natural parent, then anything else you claim to believe as an supposed individualistic, non-intrusive government "conservative" is meaningless. If this mother is guilty of aggravated assault, then arrest her and charge her with aggravated assault. If she is convicted, then she should go to prison, and the child goes into the sole custody of the father or next of kin, aka closest living relative. If the mom is found not guilty, then she is not guilty, and she goes home with her daughter. At NO TIME should a child be in the custody of a government agency. Government has not been delegated that authority by the people.
You are making this a CPS issue. This is no frivilous case, no systematic starving of kids to prove or anything of the sort. This is a questionable merchandise transaction turn felony child abuse with eyewitnesses. I don't care who takes her kids away from her and places them in a safe environment. Just do it! She needs to be dealt with severely, if it's CPS who does it, so be it.
Don't think patrons in the parking lot who witnessed the beating and have seen the tape will not come forward.
BTW the child is with Dad not the CPS. Mom in custody.
You're telling us that Kohl's should have minded their own business while this female beat the crap out of a little kid.
Your "excuse" for such a stupid statement is that the CPS are "gestapo," which is also a stupid statement -- even though I grant there have been too many CPS excesses.
And you're still defending your stupid statements, even when it's clear that they're stupid. If I were you, I'd realize I was already in a hole -- and that it'd be best to stop digging.
Semper Disgusted
You're talking apples and oranges here, and you full well know it.
This all has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the out-of-control CPS structure in this country (and it IS out of control). It has EVERYTHING to do with a "mother" beating the living s**t out of a toddler in the parking lot of a department store.
The bitch deserves to lose her kids AND her freedom.
Mike,you have very valid points,and there is no doubt there is a LOT of truth in them. None the less,sometimes children ARE being criminally abused. Let's even go ahead and make the wild assumption (obviously wrong) that CRS is wrong in 99 out of 100 cases. This does nothing to alter the fact that they are right in that one case.
Nope,ya gotta seperate the wheat from the chaf. Dump all over them for the wrong they do,and insist they do right.
Do not let the details of a single case warp your standards of right and wrong.
This seems to be what you are doing.
Okay, so let's say a little girl is being raped and beaten by her father. You want her to stay with her father until the trial is over, even though she'll have to testify against him? Pedophiles will love this change in the law!