is charged with battery? WTF?

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/dollar-store-clerk-whipped-unruly-boy-cops-say/

Quote :

"A Georgia clerk is facing a battery charge after she was caught on tape allegedly whipping a customer’s child at least 25 times with a belt behind the counter of the store where she worked. Emilia Graciela Bell, 39, was arrested on Thursday at the Dollar General in Wrightsville, Ga., for aggravated assault for whipping 8-year-old Logan Ivey, who was at the store with his mother. According to a police report, Bell admitted to whipping the child with her belt after he had thrown a battery and a cookie at her. On Monday the charge was elevated to cruelty to children after investigators saw additional footage or her hitting the child 16 to 18 more times than was originally thought. “There were two different angles from different cameras in the store,” Wrightsville Police Assistant Sheriff Bill Thompson told ABCNews.com. “They’d only watched the first when they arrested Ms. Bell. After finding out another camera had caught it, you could see her striking the child 16 to 18 more times.” Thompson said that the boy, who had been at the store with his mother, was struck by Bell a total of 25 to 28 times. The police report indicates that Logan was trying to hide from Bell behind the counter of the store. “She had him behind the counter,” he said. “She had him on the floor at one point. It was pretty bad, looking on the video.” When contacted by ABCNews.com, Bell was unavailable for comment. Calls placed to the Dollar General were not answered. Wrightsville police said that Bell posted $5,000 bond on Friday morning. She had not yet entered a plea, and the case has been transferred to Georgia Superior Court."

4/17/2013 9:22:47 AM

Should have been charged with an AC Adapter

4/17/2013 9:24:14 AM

Spare the rod spoil the child.

4/17/2013 9:25:50 AM

Should have been charged with possession of cookie.

4/17/2013 9:27:40 AM

should of been charged as an upstanding citizen and the parent should be arrested for letting their spawn act like a dick, in public, to an elder.

4/17/2013 9:36:56 AM

I'm sure the kid was being a dick, but whipping someone else's 8-year-old 25+ times with a belt is a little extreme.

4/17/2013 9:38:06 AM

You ever seen corporal punishment at a elementary school?

4/17/2013 9:40:00 AM

clerk just did what the rest of us want to do, but are too scared to do

4/17/2013 9:40:59 AM

Clearly she learned nothing from Dubya.

4/17/2013 10:09:20 AM

Good for Emilia Bell. An 8 year old behaving like that without fear of consequence is a dangerous fucking thing

4/17/2013 10:27:54 AM

Too bad 8 year old Logan didn't have a concealed carry permit.

4/17/2013 10:53:17 AM

i'da beat that motherfucker too

4/17/2013 10:55:11 AM

Quote :

"I'm sure the kid was being a dick, but whipping someone else's 8-year-old 25+ times with a belt is a little extreme."

she should have then beat the fucking parent 25+ times with the belt

i have no respect for unruly/disrespectful kids and their POS parents

4/17/2013 10:55:47 AM

^

4/17/2013 10:56:29 AM

I would literally go to jail beating someone's ass for laying hands on my child.

Even if my child was being a brat. It's a line you don't cross. That's the parent's job. If they won't handle their kid you have all the right in the world to ask them to leave. You can call the police and threaten them with trespassing. But nobody has the right to physically punish anyone else's kid without consent from the parents.


also...You're a fucking idiot if you think one instance of corporal punishment is going to have any effect on a lifetime of bad parenting.

[Edited on April 17, 2013 at 11:47 AM. Reason : l]

4/17/2013 11:32:56 AM

should of been charged as an upstanding citizen and the parent should be arrested for letting their spawn act like a dick, in public, to an elder.

[Edited on April 17, 2013 at 12:42 PM. Reason : 50,000 sorry dje i forgot]

4/17/2013 12:42:33 PM

if you want, i will go back and delete an old post and get you back under the mark

4/17/2013 12:44:51 PM

nah its cool

4/17/2013 12:45:16 PM

Just catch the palindrome coming up soon.

4/17/2013 12:46:04 PM

5005

4/17/2013 1:35:31 PM

It doesn't sound like corporal punishment to me. It sounds more like this woman snapped and beat up a child, which is somewhat understandable since the kid threw a battery at her. But kids, especially those without decent parents, have a tendency to do stuff like that...it's not okay to just go about "punishing" them.

But it would be cool if there was a class of unruly, weak people that you could punch in the face whenever you needed to blow off some steam.

[Edited on April 17, 2013 at 4:07 PM. Reason : ]

4/17/2013 4:03:26 PM

I would literally go to jail beating someone's ass for laying hands on my child.

4/17/2013 4:08:03 PM

I would have thrown a capacitor back at them. Resistors are too small.

4/17/2013 4:20:46 PM

Just couldn't resist, could you?

4/17/2013 4:21:59 PM