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Man Charged With Biting Girlfriend’s Child As Punishment

August 22, 2012 at 8:45 am by Morbid

WEST HAVEN, CT – Police in Connecticut have arrested a man after they say he bit his girlfriend’s 5-year-old child as a form of discipline.

Brian Keil, 25, was watching his girlfriend’s two children, ages 5 and 8-years-old, when the siblings got into the fight over a toy. In response to the 5-year-old biting the 8-year-old, Keil figured he would teach the younger child a lesson — and bit the child on the arm.

I often bite unattended children in the mall, but that is purely for fun. The act of biting a child as a form of punishment for biting is just stupid. It does nothing to prevent the child from doing it in the future and can even make the situation worse. It’s also illegal.

If Keil didn’t know this beforehand, he found out when the children’s father arrived to pick them up. When he learned what Keil did to his child, and saw the mark on the child’s arm, he immediately took the 5-year-old to the police station and showed the cops the very visible bite mark Keil had left.

“It was a 5-year-old child that suffered a bite wound at the hands of an adult,” said Sgt. David Tammaro, West Haven PD, “so it was taken seriously and the person was arrested for it.”

Police arrested Keil and charged him with risk of injury to a child.

Tags: Biting, Brian Keil, Child Abuse, Connecticut, Crime

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sugarpie

Holy shit – he really nailed the kid to leave a mark like that! What a douche.
CT

I know someone that once bit their dog on the ear as a punishment for biting and I thought they were a dumb ass.
Sam

“You should never bite ANYONE!! Now c’mere so i can bite you back.”
ShelbySP

When my sister was a kid she had a MAJOR biting problem, like walk up into preschool, bite ERRBODY, and the pediatrician told us to bite her back when she bit. Not hard enough to leave a mark like that (which she usually did, she was like a lamprey) but it worked!
EveryVillainIsLemons

If my boyfriend did this to one of my kids, I’d solve the problem by removing his teeth.
DixieNightmares

This is a common disciplinary measure I’ve heard of in the small, backward, Southern (not Florida!) town in which I live. Also, I’ve heard of putting cayenne pepper on children’s tongues who mouth off. This manny here probably thinks he’s done nothing wrong.
JGo555

I suggest daddy fight for custody since mommy can’t find a boyfriend NOT stoopid. This is the beginning of what child abuse looks like, people. The kids WILL die since shit always escalates instead of decrease.
I do not stop my children when they fight until I see them picking something that could draw blood or they are going for the head. Let them resolve their conflicts. And if I’m tired of the bickering, I take the toy away.
JGo555

While I don’t advocate violence my boy & girl like to bite. We smacked them lightly on the mouth, now they don’t bite each other. It was ONCE that we smacked them btw, and it was after the time outs, the stop it’s, the no candy and other methods tried.
daMonBrooks

I wasnt too outraged until I read the part about leaving a mark. What a dick :/
Pyncky

When I was a toddler I apparently thought crawling up behind my grandmother and biting her in the back of the leg was a fun game. After she knocked me across the floor, not so much. She did it in reflex not on purpose, but I didn’t do it again. Sorry, but I don’t think what he did was so bad, just that he did it too hard.
“OW! Brian bit my arm. Brian, that hoorts”
JohnQknowitall

What? Was the mother at the dentist having her tooth the boyfriend broke the night before repaired? I cannot believe he displayed no anger issues prior to this crime.
JohnQknowitall

Cayenne pepper on a child’s tongue is really borderline torture since their sense of taste is much are much more sensitive. In Asian countries where hot spicy food is generally preferred, the children must be and always are introduced slowly to the spices.
abbys_mom

I don’t completely agree that biting a child back is bad discipline. My
grandmother was a wonderful woman, not abusive in any way, and she did it to me
when I bit my sister…I never bit again after that. Of course, we’re not
talking a bite of the sort this man obviously did, that left a mark…it was
closer to a light pop on the mouth for biting or a spank on the bum…just a
little nip that was shocking enough to show me that what I had done to my sister
hurt her. When my daughter started biting, my pediatrician also recommended a
nip on the arm, or a light pop on the mouth, and it worked. I think the main
thing here in this situation is that 1) it wasn’t this man’s place to do any
real discipline regardless, aside from separating the two kids and taking away
the toy, reporting the biting to the father when he arrived, and 2) he actually
hurt the child and left an obvious mark, leading me to believe this wasn’t for
discipline anyway, but done in an abusive way that gave him pleasure in hurting
the child, which is sickening.
MyHovercraftIsFullofEels

My grandmother (Louisiana) put pepper on my fingers to stop me from biting my nails. It didn’t work, I just washed it off. I still bite them to this day (Thank goodness for gel manicures). I would by no definition consider what she did child abuse though.
ultracreep

My sister was a biter too. A sneaky one. Once, I was lying on my bed, reading a book, listening to some music, and my sister crawled up behind me and bit the hell out of my shoulder. It made a huge, deep, slightly bloody mark. When I could stop screaming and crying, I told my dad, who promptly said “you ain’t hurt” and went back to reading the paper. When I showed mom when she got home she was appalled, and went and bit my sister back (but nothing near like I was bitten.) My sister squalled and threw a fit and NEVER bit anyone again. So I guess sometimes it works like a charm.This guy probably shouldn’t have done it to a kid that wasn’t his though.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1069158605 Randy Whisnant

Biting back, while not a first use measure is something that can work. After the “no’s” and the “go stand in the corner” and such as that a light bite, (not enough to leave a mark beyond a few minutes) teaches consequence and in a good way. I know as an adult that if I hurt someone they are liable to do something back. I knew that as a kid, I even knew that going into preschool. I knew that because my mother taught me that. People in the real world are not going to look at you and point their finger and you and say “bad Randy, you can’t do that”. They are going to bite back. The earlier you learn that the better off you will be.

All that being said, the guy got less than what he deserved. He bit a child that was not his blood, and he did it enough to leave a lasting mark. It does not take a lot of pain to get the point across. But none the less, it should always be the choice of both parents, not a babysitter boyfriend.
JohnQknowitall

It is painful and not really effective in the long run. Cayenne pepper has a much stronger bite (and pretty painful to an uneducated pallet) than black pepper which is most often the only pepper found in most American kitchens. I would put cayenne pepper up there with forcing a child to eat a jalapeño pepper.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

Omg, it’s like you are channeling my 8 year old daughter right now! Except she was laying in her bed sleeping, when my 3 year old climbed up in her bed and bit her on the upper back. She was bleeding a little and my husband told her to stop screaming. But Joshua has been biting for some time, so I looked and it was pretty bad.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

Damn thing wouldn’t let me finish.. Anyway, I bit him to show him it hurts like hell! I misjudged how hard I bit, or how tender his sweet young flesh is, and it let a bruise like the little girl’s arm
in the pic:-( it was awful, and I felt like a failure, but 3 days later I realized he hadn’t but her since, lol. She is 18″ taller than him, an weighs 2 more pounds, do she has pretty thin skin on her thin body, and he was chomping on her 3-5 times a day. He’s smart enough not to bite anyone bigger than him, lmbo
http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Hall-Grillot/100000054600337 Anna Hall Grillot

discus and autocorrect are plotting to make me look like an inbred, illiterate fool…can’t even edit!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Cindy-Crawford/13964421 Cindy Crawford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOlznuyPOeM
Abroad

Apparently that is part of sheep-dog training in some places. Better never to have to do it, obviously.
Angelica correa

The problem here is that this man is not the father of the child, so it was wrong for him to discipline the child, he should have just told the father and let the father handle the issue.