Mother Gets Felony Conviction for Spanking Child

Don't spank your kids!

http://www.volunteertv.com/national/headlines/Mom_pleads_guilty_to_spanking_own_child_124072014.html

 

I'm guessing there's more to this than meets the eye. Common sense tells me so.

 

Coporal punishment is still used and is legal in Texas schools.

Apparently in the state of Texas, government employees can spank your child, but you can't.

FWIW, I've never spanked my kids, but I'm not against it as long as it doesn't injure or bruise the child, and if it is only used in rare instances. Sending our girls to their rooms seems to have worked well for us, but not all kids are like that.

 

He is a democrat in an elected position.

 

Actually, now that I think about it, my wife did spank our youngest when she was 4. Our kid had grabbed a marker and written on a wall. My wife caught her, told her not to do it again, and took the marker. The next day, our youngest was scribbling on the wall again, this time with a pencil. A quick spanking, some crying, and two years later, a certain little somebody has yet to write on the wall.

What is funny is that I told my wife later that she had told our youngest not to write on the wall while taking away a marker, and that she had used a pencil the second time. She just laughed and said 'typical'.

Perhaps my penchant for framing semantic arguments isn't just a board thing.

 

What does your youngest think of Andre Miller and his performance against the Suns?

 

In Mexico they're saying, "Those loco Americans!" In China, they're laughing as usual at how easy it is to overtake the corrupt U.S. The whole world's thinking, "THIS is the crappy system they kill a million people to force on us?"

 

When I was a kid, sometimes the only thing that would really correct my behavior was an ass beating with one of those thick 70s belts.

This judge needs to retire.

 

Sounds like the paternal grandmother is a real battle axe.

 

She thinks you're a douchebag. Not my thoughts, though.

If you want to address me, do it like a man, and not through my kid.

 

A 2-year-old is too young to get red marks. But the legal system is an ass to spend tens of thousands of dollars investigating and lawyering, stealing her kids and paying for their support, and most despicable of all--turning her into a felon who can never get a job without lying that she's not a felon, forcing her into only short-term unemployment the rest of her life till her employer finds out, while she hides out in fear the rest of her days, never producing what she could have in the work world.

Every time you advocate that someone be convicted, think of the costs, financial and human. Think of how you're taking one more taxpayer out of the system. Think of how all that was necessary was have the police talk to her and like most first offenders, she would have been shocked into compliance. No need to take it any further for first offenders.

That's how it used to be, but nowadays the legal system has unlimited money to burn, so they destroy everyone they can. Every crime is now a felony. Every first offender must become a felon. When you hear of China or North Korean prisons, just remember that the U.S has a far higher incarceration rate.

This is what I mean when I criticize you "law and order" types. This is what "sentence reform" means. Much of this stuff should never get beyond the police talking to the person once.

 

So you support child abuse?

Beating a 2 year old is the act of a sadistic moron.

There were marks still visible later, after the abuse was discovered and she was taken to the hospital.

 

Think of crimes as a pyramid. The top 1% are what make the papers. In the bottom quarter or so are large numbers of first offenders as I said, who only need a scare of police talking to them. Sometime you should sit in a courtroom where, long before the trial stage is reached, hearings are conducted (about half a minute each) for a hundred accused. You will see a college student wearing glasses, staring at the judge in curiosity as to why he has to go through this for selling drugs to his dorm friends. You will see a young farm buck with his father there to help him, because he had a scrape with someone. You'll see a lot of sad people.

Your examples are top of the pyramid, 1% of the top 1% stuff. Instead of relying on the media for your knowledge, try sitting in that room and watching. Not the trial itself, because only the top 10% go that far. I'm talking long before that, when the defendant is bravely fighting a 2-year sentence and not accepting the 30 day offer from the prosecutor because the prosecutor knows the defendant is harmless. When the hearing is done, they all walk free outside to their cars, wondering why, when the system knows they're not dangerous, their lives must be destroyed. Many, many people go through multiple hearings for long periods, not kept in jail because the system knows they're harmless. It's just another reason why this country will die in a generation from its government deficits. If you think government employees are expensive, that's nothing, think of the multiple lawyers there.

 

Your youngest knows what a douchebag is and calls people that? Clearly you should spend less time arguing on the internet and more time working on your terrible parenting.

Is that Nerf gun in the avatar loaded? You must feel incredibly threatened.

 

she pleaded guilty? what an idiot, a jury would have surely acquitted her

 

I agree. It just doesn't add up. Especially this:

And this happened in Texas??!?!?!?!