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Manure Shoveling Leads to Abuse Charge

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Manure Shoveling Leads to Abuse Charge

By SCOTT CHARTON
.c The Associated Press


LA BELLE, Mo. (AP) - One youngster at a community for troubled children says he benefited from being made to shovel cow manure in a punishment community leaders nicknamed ``school appreciation day.''

But the local sheriff calls it child abuse, saying kids at the Heartland Christian school and community were forced to stand in filth for up to two hours.

Corday Thomas, 13, was one of the youngsters who shoveled manure for breaking strict rules against being disobedient, disrespectful or unruly.

``Yeah, it smelled pretty bad, but I am thankful they cared about me to make me do right. It didn't hurt me,'' said Corday, who said his mother sent him to Heartland from Kansas City because he was violent and using drugs.

Since his experience shoveling manure, Corday said he made all A's and one B on his last report card.

Lewis County Sheriff David Parrish says the youngsters were forced to stand for up to two hours in manure, urine and cattle afterbirths brimming with bacteria.
 
Well, I guess the question here is did the kids learn that whatever they did was wrong? Or are they just fearing the manure?

It's pretty sick, though, and I don't agree with it as a form of punishment.
 
Somebody had to clean the mess up. Nobody would WANT to clean it up. So would it be abuse if you told your least favorite employee to do it?

What a load of crap, literally and figuratively.
 


<< Somebody had to clean the mess up. Nobody would WANT to clean it up. So would it be abuse if you told your least favorite employee to do it?

What a load of crap, literally and figuratively. >>



These kids weren't getting paid to do it. They are young teenagers and shouldn't be forced to clean up horse manure as punishment for something they did in school.
 
At this type of youth camp, the children do ALL the chores. Therefore SOMEONE was going to have to do the job, so it makes sense to have it be used as a punishment for their behavior while at the camp (whether it be during school hours or outside them).

If they were given hip waders and gloves and whatever other protection farm workers are given, then it's not abuse, it's a chore that they had to do. If they were just thrown in naked or in pants and sneakers, then yes, that's abuse because of the dangers from bacteria.
 
Ok, so let me get this straight. They'd have to go out and pay someone to clean up the manure at this camp because the little brats would be &quot;abused&quot; if they had to do it?? sheeeeeesh.... what the heck happened to discipline? We're raising a bunch of whiney weak leeches in this society.
 
How bad can it be? Farmers have been doing the same type of work for centuries. The kid himself harbors no hard feelings (rather positive in fact) and he's doing quite well. &quot;Brimming with bacteria&quot; - yes, that's why one washes up afterwards.
 
It's not that bad.
As one who has much experience in the area, (grandfather and uncle were farmers) it sounds as if the folks in this particular county in Mo. have elected themselves a city boy, candy ass, bureaucrat as sheriff. He'll also be the first in line to request a bigger budget from the taxpayers.


 
Ok, so let me get this straight. They'd have to go out and pay someone to clean up the manure at this camp because the little brats would be &quot;abused&quot; if they had to do it?? sheeeeeesh.... what the heck happened to discipline? We're raising a bunch of whiney weak leeches in this society.

EXACTLY.
 
I've done it. Not as a punishment, but as part of chores on the farm. I turned out OK (for the most part). I think the sherif needs a reality check on what constitutes abuse.

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pulse - abuse? Man, what about all those poor farm kids? You gonna throw all their parents in jail?

Perhaps if children were not pampered to the brink in today's society, they would have some respect and discipline.
 
I'm sure that Sheriff will not be around long over there.....

The sad thing is that every time you see something rediculous like that come up, it takes away from the terribly REAL cases of abuse out there. Many kids are truly abused, physically and mentally, and the Sheriff is wasting time (not to mention tax dollars) going after people that are doing nothing wrong. Ooooooh, not THAT, not making them do hard work! Oh my goodness no.
 
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