It's amazing how we make celebs out of uneducated, illiterate, and inarticulate people like Ms. Toogood.
Every movie on Lifetime has the following basis... Husband beats wife, husband cheats on wife, husband beats wife, wife kills husband.
If you are saying that you want to eradicate the gypsy culture/lifestyle, then I may agree with you in theory, however, you would have a long, hard battle before you. You would probably have an easier time eradicating the Catholic Church. The gypsies have been aroud for millenia, and every nation on the face of the earth since then has tried to rid themselves of them. They are going to be around, lying, theiving, stealing and conning for longer than you or I will be on this planet.
So it looks like we will have to deal with them on an individual basis, and individually, I have not seen any hardcore evidence that a real beating took place in this instance. What exactly has the mother confessed to??