Punishment too weak for hurting her son.

[Monster2]

What do you guys think? According to this article her maximum sentence will be a year. Personally, I think she should be charged with minimum felony aggravated assault. Really.... She needs to be locked away for at least 10 years, I think.
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I also just can't but feeling that if it were man who did this the charges would be much more severe.

MASSILLON —

Neighbors were alarmed when they saw a 35-year-old Massillon woman grab her 5-year-old son by the ear and scream into it.

Then she slapped him across the back of his head, swept him off his feet and slammed his face into the cement so hard that the severe lacerations he suffered required stitches, Stark County Jail records said.

The child was taken at 8:50 p.m. Friday from his home in the 700 block of North Erie Street to Affinity Medical Center in Massillon, the jail records said.

His mother was booked into the jail on charges of domestic violence and endangering children.

Both charges are first-degree misdemeanors, punishable upon conviction by a maximum sentence of 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

 

[ChefChiTown]

Do you know how many parents hit their kids? Lots of them. I'm not talking about parents who beat the crap out of their kids for no reason, rather the ones who spank their kids, slap their kids, etc. Do all of them deserve to spend 10 years in jail too?

I don't agree with her tactics (nor do I condone them), but it's her kid and she can raise him (which includes punishing him) however she wants. Giving her 10 years in jail - hell, even ONE year in jail - would be total overkill.

 

[Sunflower2]

but it's her kid and she can raise him (which includes punishing him) however she wants.

Surely you can see that there is a difference between punishing a child and assaulting one to the point of hospitalization? That's abuse. I used to get a smack when I was a little shit when I was a kid but NEVER anything that caused me prolonged pain or gave me cuts/bruises. That's taking it too far. If I saw a mum smack her kid on the bum in the street I'd thinking nothing of it, but beating him like that? I'd ring the police.

Do all of them deserve to spend 10 years in jail too?

No, of course not. But the two are completely different. Smacking a kid and smashing a face into a wall so hard he needs stitches are worlds apart, in my opinion.

 

[Monster2]

She could have killed that boy.

 

[ChefChiTown]

Surely you can see that there is a difference between punishing a child and assaulting one to the point of hospitalization? That's abuse. I used to get a smack when I was a little shit when I was a kid but NEVER anything that caused me prolonged pain or gave me cuts/bruises. That's taking it too far. If I saw a mum smack her kid on the bum in the street I'd thinking nothing of it, but beating him like that? I'd ring the police.



No, of course not. But the two are completely different. Smacking a kid and smashing a face into a wall so hard he needs stitches are worlds apart, in my opinion.

I looked up the article in question - what Monster posted was the entire article - there is no more information than that. So, as far as we are concerned, we are left to assume what happened. We have to fill in the blanks all on our own. We don't know what happened before the incident took place (What did the boy do? Maybe it was serious - we don't know) and we don't know the true severity of what happened either.

And, who is to say what the mother did was "beating" her child? Everybody has their own definition as to what punishment is - what is acceptable and what is not? And, unfortunately (unless it is OBVIOUSLY uncalled for) it is up to the parent to decide how they will punish their child.

Personally, I'm all for spanking a child. Not just for shits and giggles, but if the situation called for it - if the child NEEDED it in order to learn. I would never do what this mother did, but that's just because I have a line that is drawn which I won't cross. Maybe her line deems her actions to be acceptable. Who knows? Not me. Not you. Not anybody but her.

Once again, I don't condone or agree with what she did to her kid, but she's the parent of the child in question and can raise him however she pleases.