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Jzero

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Originally posted by: CPA
MSNBC has video also. . It made me almost cry for that little girl. I admit I spank my children, but I would never punch any of my kids or grab them by their hair and furiously shake them. I wonder what kind of lame excuse this woman is going to have.

I agree with whoever stated that it's people like this who give the occasional smack on the arse a bad name. This lady is sick in the head. From the little you see of them walking out, the little girl doesn't appear to be carrying on at all.....

It's also embarassing that Fox News can't stream a video...even the low bandwidth one came down horrible, but the MSNBC one works fine.
Go figure.
 

Stratum9

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Why don't these motherfvcking news sites provide a download link to the video in addition to the stream? I'm on a dialup but don't mind waiting for the video to dl in the background while I do other things. Whereas with streaming I sit there while it buffers for about 60 seconds just for 10 seconds of video that is too small and too pixelized by compression to make it worth watching! Asshats!
 

Gaard

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This b!tch broke the golden rule of parenting. Never hit/spank your child in anger. Discipline is a must, but if you feel the need to hit your kid because you're angry at him/her, send them to their room instead. This woman needs help.
 

Chaotic42

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Skin her alive, displace her blood with iodine, or cover her with honey and put her in a giant ant mound.

Any one, or combination of those three. There is no excuse. She deserves torture.

 

TurtleMan

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dude give me a break, I was born in taiwan, and beating is not really a problem there. Unless the mom frequently beat the kid or something.
But typically, i was brought up beaten by my mom, my dad, my teacher. Im still fine, "beating " in my way of thinking, it is a way to control a kid, not excessive beating tho ,bc sometime, we are human, we are just like animal, we need to take a beat to know that we are doing some wrong. Like a slap in the face you know, then you know if you did something wrong
So you take a beat, and you learn from it.
It is sort of like learning from your error. so i don't think it is that big of deal.
just my thought with my broken english..


But on the video, that woman just sort of go crazy on her little kid, I think that is not really good, since that kid is probaly very little
and doesn't know wtf is going on ..
 

kt

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A lot of you have been saying that beating a child is a form of discipline.. that is a big load of horse manure. There's just no justification for beating a child, especially in anger. Using fear to discipline a person is just wrong. When I saw this video shown on Thursday night news, I was beside myself and couldn't believe how a parent could beat his/her own child like that.
 

Kadarin

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From MSNBC: ?She?s very remorseful, very upset, very apologetic and ashamed of those actions,? her attorney said Friday night.

Riiight. Just because she got caught, and now billions of people know that she's nothing but a worthless excuse for a human being. How many times did this happen where it didn't get caught on tape?
 

Spagina

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My younger brother is the posterchild for what happens if you don't discipline your kids. When I was younger I received PLENTY of discipline and I turned out damn fine, but I think my parent's lost the heart for discipline with my younger brother. All I will say is he is way out of friggin' control now. He is 18 now, and proceeds to act like a 3 year old brat 24 hours a day. He has never held a job, sits in his room and plays games all day, milks my parent's for cash, curses and verbally abuses anyone and everyone, and goes to school for 2 hours a day. This isn't even teenage angst, this is unaccountability for his behavior and actions and this is how many of the new kids are being raised, so be VERY AFRAID and hope some of them get the sense knocked into them sooner than later.

That being said, this mother lost total control. In no way does a very young child like that deserve that kind of abuse. My brother on the other hand though :D
 

kt

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Originally posted by: Spagina
My younger brother is the posterchild for what happens if you don't discipline your kids. When I was younger I received PLENTY of discipline and I turned out damn fine, but I think my parent's lost the heart for discipline with my younger brother. All I will say is he is way out of friggin' control now. He is 18 now, and proceeds to act like a 3 year old brat 24 hours a day. He has never held a job, sits in his room and plays games all day, milks my parent's for cash, curses and verbally abuses anyone and everyone, and goes to school for 2 hours a day. This isn't even teenage angst, this is unaccountability for his behavior and actions and this is how many of the new kids are being raised, so be VERY AFRAID and hope some of them get the sense knocked into them sooner than later.

That being said, this mother lost total control. In no way does a very young child like that deserve that kind of abuse. My brother on the other hand though :D
One case doesn't justify the whole population. All my siblings turn out fine w/o our parents laying a hand on us. What's more surprising is the fact that I am Chinese and you know how Chinese parents are known for using beating as a discipline.

 

AdamK47

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I'm seeing a few posts here with people saying they are in favor of being beaten or beating their kids. The PC word is reprimand. Something I doubt was justified in this womans case.
 

iamme

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There's a HUGE difference between spanking your kid on the butt, and cocking your clenched fists to pummel him/her.

:|

Sad thing is that the mom was probably beat when she was a kid, and they'll probably use that in court to lessen her punishment....
 

Paunchy

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That wasn't discipline or even beating. That woman seemed like she was honestly trying to hurt that little girl. My mom, who I've sometimes suspected of being slightly manic, was quick to hit when she got mad, but it was one quick flareup and it was over. Either a spank on the ass, sometimes a slap, a shoe or hanger if she had to chase me. ;)

This lady was PUMMELING that little girl. I'm all for smacking your kids when it comes down to it, but I think *I* would probably cry if I was getting romped like that, even at 25. I mean come on, she even looked around before she started in on the kid to make sure no one was watching, and after she finished the first time, WENT BACK FOR MORE!

They oughta find some of the chicks from GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, for those of you not born yet or with no interest in watching hotties wrestle :p) and let them "discipline" the bvtch.
 

globalstud

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I've heard of this, and for the first time watched the video. The woman is just taking out her aggression on the defenseless child. What is the sister or other woman doing while this is going on BTW?

The biggest problem is that he gave most men and women functioning sex organs without any consequences. There are people in this world that would treat a beautiful little girl like that the right way but are denied because of physical constraints. The ability to get someone pregnant or get pregnant does not constitute you being a parent. And this woman needs to have her children taken away in order that they may be brought up in a more loving home, hopefully.

The mother was abused as a child? I don't care those excuses need to go by the wayside. You become an adult and you know what's right and wrong.

I do not hit women. As for this woman, since she can so beat on a defenseless child, I would like to beat her just to show her what it's like.

I hate freaking lawyers too two quotes:

?It was a bad choice, and it was captured on Candid Camera,? Rosen said. ?She?s very remorseful. She regrets it.?

Yea, she regrets being caught on camera.

?There?s nothing wrong with this mother. The mother obviously used very poor judgment; I?m not here to defend the videotape or justify the videotape,? Rosen said.

All that schooling to become a slime sucking scumbag. I don't get it.
 

geoff2k

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This b!tch broke the golden rule of parenting. Never hit/spank your child in anger.

I completely agree with this. If your child makes you so mad that you feel the only way to make things right is to hit them, then you've just earned yourself a timeout. Let the other parent handle the situation, and go cool off somewhere.
 

Tallgeese

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Some interesting tidbits about the woman:

Toogood grew up as part of a group of Texas-based Irish Travellers, itinerant laborers who often make their living with home-improvement and business-repair work, such as paving, painting and roofing
Professional con artists actually. "Travellers" and a history of theft and fraud have been well-documented.
Mishawaka authorities said they had no indication Toogood has ever been accused of abuse. However, they said she did have a history of retail store fraud.
Common for female "Travellers."
In May, Fort Worth police issued another warrant for Gorman's arrest after she failed to appear in court to face theft charges stemming from an alleged March 27 shoplifting incident at a Kohl's store there.
KIM: This incident happened after leaving a Kohl's store.
The episode happened after the woman left the store angry over being refused a cash refund, authorities said.
OK...here's what I think happened.

The women--the mother and her sister--were trying to run a scam...prolly trying to return some shoplifted stuff. The 4 year old may have even been used as part of it...dunno. But in some way the little girl prolly flummoxed the deal. Mother takes it out on her for blowing the scam, just like she herself was prolly "trained" to become a con artist.
 

MacBaine

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Originally posted by: flavio
So do they have this piece of sh!t yet?

She turned herself in today. Doctors who examined the girl said she had no signs of injury (???). Her lawyers said this was a one time episode, and that there isn't a history of abuse.
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gopunk

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Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: flavio
So do they have this piece of sh!t yet?

She turned herself in today. Doctors who examined the girl said she had no signs of injury (???). Her lawyers said this was a one time episode, and that there isn't a history of abuse.
rolleye.gif

ahaha do they think we're idiots or something. it's just too bad there isn't death penalty for this b!tch. people that abuse are the lowest scum of the earth... it doesn't matter what they abuse, children, wives, animals, i have nothing but contempt for such people.
 

FoBoT

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Originally posted by: MacBaine

She turned herself in today. Doctors who examined the girl said she had no signs of injury (???). Her lawyers said this was a one time episode, and that there isn't a history of abuse.
rolleye.gif

its probably true, she let her anger go out of control and now the child will end up in foster care (where worse things might happen) and grow up without a mother and the mother , because of the publicity of the case will end up getting long jail time, while most child abusers get off easy

but at least the 98% of the people posting here to lynch her will be satisfied
 

gopunk

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: MacBaine

She turned herself in today. Doctors who examined the girl said she had no signs of injury (???). Her lawyers said this was a one time episode, and that there isn't a history of abuse.
rolleye.gif

its probably true, she let her anger go out of control and now the child will end up in foster care (where worse things might happen) and grow up without a mother and the mother , because of the publicity of the case will end up getting long jail time, while most child abusers get off easy

but at least the 98% of the people posting here to lynch her will be satisfied

probably true? i'm sorry, but you don't just go psycho like that just one time. my mother never had such a "one-time" episode... was she just lucky? or perhaps she's not insane like that woman.

she SHOULD get long jail time and she SHOULD have the child taken away from her. as should happen with all other child abusers. scum of the earth.
 

FoBoT

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yes, and the child will be better off growing up in foster care, it is such a wonderful thing to put kids into state custody , to be shuttled from home to home, nobody to love them