A Man Slaps 2-Year-Old Girl at Walmart
A Stranger Repeatedly Slapped Crying Child at Walmart After Telling the Mother to Keep Her Quiet
Roger Stephens is charged with felony cruelty to children.
Let's face it, most of us have been in a store and have seen children "acting up." Some times, as you enter a store, you see the parents standing outside, trying to clam their children down. There are times when you are in the stores and there are crying children and the parents are looking the other way. Yes, this can be upsetting, but do we have the right to step in and use abuse to get our way?
We do not know the whole story, but most of us will agree that no one has the right to slap our children. There are other ways of handling this.
1. Ask some one who works there to talk to the person. (I know, most times it is hard to find some one who is a worker at most stores.)
2. Offer some advice. (They might not take it, but you tried.)
3. Talk to the child. (I found this some times works. The child is so taken by me being clam and some times funny, they forget why they were crying.)
4. Just walk away. (You might not like that the child is crying, but it might not help if you interfere.)
No one has the right to abuse anyone. A day hardly goes by when we do not hear about someone being abused. Roger Stephens seemed proud that he abused the little girl, "See, I told you I would shut her up." Has he abused someone before? When I was growing up I was told to keep my hands to myself. Then I got older I was told, "Your rights ends were the next nose begins." With that in mind, yes Stephens has the right to ask the mother to keep the child quiet, but he does not have the right to slap the child. We have to control ourselves and ask ourselves, were we perfect little angels when we were children?
Published by DZBO
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5 Comments
Post a CommentWell said, Leela...I totally agree with you.
I just don't get the hatred some people are spewing about other peoples' kids crying. It really isn't anyone else's business if someone's child is having a temper tantrum. If you don't like the noise, exercise the only right you have and walk away. In daily life we all have to put up with things we may find annoying; it's the price of being in public with other human beings who we cannot control. I have to listen to people swearing in front of my kids, which I hate; I can't go smack that person, as much as I might like to.
Another great report by DZBO! Were do people get off on abusing children? I am not sorry for the old man, but hitting a child, that's going to far. We don't know what was really said but we know what he did and it would seem that he was proud of it.
To any other people who might be considering assaulting a small child because you don't like their behavior, just MYOB.
It's not your kid. You don't know why they're fussing. The mother is probably already embarrassed and frustrated and wants to get out of there as soon as possible.
I've had 2 experiences with people putting their nose in where it doesn't belong.
When my oldest son was about 1 1/2 years old I was in the line up at the grocery store with him in my arms. He reached out and innocently *touched* one of the bags belonging to the senior citizen in front of us. She turned around, waved her finger in his face and told him in a very stern voice that if he did it again she'd call the police and have him arrested! She wasn't teasing him; she was trying to scare him into "behaving". I stood there and, right in front of her, said to my child that her behavior was inappropriate, that he shouldn't believe her and that the police are our friends, who are there to help us
I am a single father of 2 daughters and have been for over 20 years. I once owned a retail record and tape store in the 70's and 80's.
When an out of control child couldn't be resoned with by the parent< i would either calmly tell the child that there are RUles.. "NO CRYING IN THIS STORE, Please wait til you get outside to cry" . It takes improvisation to deal wiht little kids out of control.
Some times I would ply on theirt sympathy and let the screaming child know that it was giving me a terriable head ache and ask them to stop.I dont think iit lwas what I was saying, but rather the fact that they were addressed unemotionally . Just matter of fact : there is no crying in baseball . and there is no crying in Wal Mart or any Store .. Kids need to think that they are just as important s as the other shoppers.
It is all physocology .. or is it reverse ..
Hitting anyone is unacceptable and gets nothing accomplished.
This GUY (s&%m bag) needs to spend a few months in lock up and mayb