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Dollar Store Employee Used Belt On Customer’s ‘Demon’ Son

February 6, 2013 at 9:30 am by Morbid

Wrightsville, GA – A Dollar Store employee in Georgia is facing multiple assault charges after she took it upon herself to discipline a customer’s unruly child by beating the 8-year-old with a belt.

According to reports, 8-year-old Logan Ivey was in the Dollar Store with his mother, allegedly running around being a little shit. He was confronted by one of the store’s employees, 39-year-old Emilia Bell, who called him a demon.

“So I said ‘I’ll show you bad’ and I picked up a cookie and I threw it at her,” said Logan. “So then she starts chasing me around the Dollar General with her belt and takes me behind the counter and starts beating me with her belt.”

Police reviewed surveillance footage and say it doesn’t show what led up to Bell’s disciplinary measures, it clearly shows Bell hitting Logan as many as 26 times with a belt as he screamed for his mother and tried to squirm away. Wrightsville’s police chief Paul Sterling told reporters these strikes were not in one area of Logan’s body, but were all over Logan’s body.

Bell was immediately arrested and charged with simple battery, but that charge has since been upgraded to aggravated assault. Authorities have also added a charge of cruelty to children after viewing the assault from a different camera angle and consulting with the Johnson County magistrate.

Dollar General has since fired Bell after seeing the video footage and released the following statement:

“Dollar General strives to provide a safe and welcoming place for our customers to shop,” The statement said. “We are deeply shocked and saddened by the reported incident at our store in Wrightsville, Ga. and have expressed our sincere apologies to the child’s family. This incident is contrary to our core values of serving our customers and communities and does not reflect the commitment of our nearly 93,000 employees to treat everyone who enters our stores with kindness and respect. The type of behavior described in this incident is unacceptable, and the person responsible is no longer employed by Dollar General.”

Bell is facing up to 20 years in prison and has declined to comment on the incident.

Even if Logan’s mother was allowing him to run around the store like an animal, and even if Logan did throw a cookie and a battery at Bell, it doesn’t excuse her beating on him like she did. But I understand why she did it. There have been many times that my desire to never go back to jail has almost been superseded by my desire to beat the shit out of a kid acting up in public, along with the parents that were allowing it.

Tags: Assault, Beating, belt, Child Abuse, Dollar Store, Emilia Bell, Georgia, Logan Ivey

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daMonBrooks

I understand the employees frustration, but disciplining a strangers child at your place of employment is just beyond stupid, even more so if you’re going to get physical.

I wonder where this Wrightsville Is, I lived in GA for a brief period, and nobody I met sounded like that.
Simplyatomic

Where the fuck was mom? If Mom was paying attention to her kid there would not have been time to throw a cookie, chase the kid and get in 26 slaps with the belt. In my opinion the mom needs the fucking belt as bad as her bratty kid did.
http://www.facebook.com/chasity.lawson.3 Chasity Lawson

You know what, if his mom would have kept her eye on him and not let him running around the store like a wild banchee this would have never happened. Yeah the store employee was out of line and she went overboard with the spankings, but that little boy needed to take a chill pill and learn respect for adults and people in authority.
Sam

It sure sounds like he was long overdue for a spanking.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1156526963 Robert F. Savio

Typical reaction in this permissive society where disrespectful children who are not taught common manners at home, run wild in stores while parents allow it by simply ignoring it. Undisciplined children become undisciplined adults and the cycle continues and worsens. Once again the suggestion that most people who HAVE children, shouldn’t, proves itself to be true.
duper

if the employee goes to jail or gets any kind of punishment at all…. it’s still worth it to give that little shit a good beating!
Cassy_Again

Seriously, if some snotty kid tossing a cookie or a battery at you can cause you to reach this level of rage, you have no business being in public. What does she do if someone cuts her off in the grocery line, stab them? I’ve raised three children, and I’ve worked with children whose behaviour makes this boy’s look mild (VERY mild) and I’ve never once felt an urge to beat someone. Cripes, my own step brother could have done better than this on a typical day in school, before recess and he grew up in the 1960s and 1970s when schools did whoop your ass, and no one ever lost their shit with him like this. Ridiculous that a full grown adult has so little self control.
Lana Li

What a little shit (the kid). The other commenter are right though– where the fuck was the mother or father during this to let this situation even start? God damn.
duper

stop acting like you’re better than everyone else. you might not approve what she did, but how do you know what she went through in her life?
Guest

cute kid though. he’s like that movie…Problem Child
Cassy_Again

“Discipline” does not mean whipping someone all over his body 26 times. Discipline would be getting barred form the store.
duper

if anything, the employee may have made him worse.
LeaveMeBe

IKR? It would have been more effective coming from his parent, though. I can freely admit that there have been plenty of times I’ve wanted to snatch up a stranger’s kid and wallop them on their behind. Of course, I would follow that up by doing the same to their parent for being such an ass and putting the rest of us through that shit. Damn people, you are not doing your kid or the rest of us any favors by not discipling them.
kimbev69

so you are one of those that gives excuses to baby killers who were abused growing up….i don’t give a shit what she went thru in her “life” she had no right to put hands on someone elses kid, i don’t care if he whipped out his pee pee and pissed on her…she should have alerted the manager or called out to see whose kid this was…Dollar General is not that big of a friggen store
LeaveMeBe

I don’t think Cassy was acting like she was better than anyone else, I think she was using her life experience to make a point. And it doesn’t matter what the employee went through in her life, she has poor judgement and impulse control and if she can’t control herself better than an 8 yo little shit running helter-skelter around a store than she shoudn’t be allowed in public either. We don’t need to know what someone went through in their life to form an opinion on what is or isn’t considered socially acceptable behavior in our society.
newstarshipsmell

I had the same reaction yesterday when I saw the interview. The lesson the kid seems likely to learn from all this is that acting up to provoke adults can gain him all sorts of positive attention and sympathy. He didn’t seem to express any remorse for his behavior that led up to the incident.
Miss_Ann_thrope

I think that it is obvious that his mom should be charged with failure to protect, neglect and child endangerment. It is not as if she rushed to the aid of her little shit erm . . . I mean darling angel. She clearly wasn’t watching of taking care of her child. The kid is not in the hospital and I doubt he has any serious injuries – 20 years seems a bit much for giving this kid the discipline and attention he clearly needed . . . He looks and sounds like a little asshole – no matter how hard I try I can’t feel sorry for him.
myironlung

Damn, and lost her job at Dollar Store. I’d be missing those employee discounts for sure.
ultracreep

Admittedly, I’m from the “old school” but when I was a kid, the whole neighborhood was basically allowed to “discipline” you (aka whip your ass). If this had been me, my mother probably would have said to the woman “what did she do?” Then after finding out, she would have probably said I deserved it and whipped me again.
Gsweater

Good for the employee. Bet that little punk doesn’t sass back to strangers ever again in his life. Street Justice Bitchez!!!
techsupp0rt

Kid whips it out and pees on me, he’s probably going to get punched in the face, followed by whoever is responsible for him at the time.
techsupp0rt

Sounds like they little bastard got exactly what they came for, cheap discipline! Sure, maybe it wasn’t right to hit him 25 times (I’m sure 5 would have sufficed fine, or maybe divided the beating between the boy and his birth vessel, for fairness!), but that’s pretty much what you’re asking for when you act out like that. If the parent won’t react, then the ‘victim’ needs to. If she didn’t, he would have continued on, because apparently his mother is fairly worthless. If this kid was about 10 years older, what he did would have been grounds for an arrest.

Kids can’t be really held too accountable for their actions, but they can be taught. This is 100% the fault of the parents, because not only were they not present, they raised the little shit to be like that. Too bad you can’t charge someone for negligent stupidity.

When I worked in retail, people used to leave their little brats unattended all the time. It was a Ross store. People assume that because there’s a toy isle, the store staff are baby sitters. Wasn’t interested. Every single one of them, I’d ask the kid what their mom’s name was, and call them by their full name over the loud speaker to come and collect their child at customer service. I don’t care what you’re doing or what you think your kid is doing, don’t fucking leave them unattended!
Heather_Habilatory

Oh, holy shit. That kid has some ginormous undropped balls. If I told an employee, “I’ll show you bad!” and threw shit at her, my mom would kick my ass. She’d do that NOW, even though I’m 30 years old! I never recall my mother spanking me, but oh my god. I know not to test that crazy lady. This kid’s mom needs to try parenting!! It’s HER fault her kid is a fucking terror, and she should be made to pay for this lady’s court battle.
techsupp0rt

She’ll pay for it later in bail money.
Heather_Habilatory

Her own and her shitstain sons.
JohnQknowitall

I understand the feelings of the employee completely, but I believe that if there should have been a beating it should have been the asshole mother who saw fit to share her poor parenting skills with the rest of the world.

People if your kids are screaming then take them out of store, restaurant, party, wedding, theater, etcetera. Not everyone enjoys the fruits of your loins when they misbehave.
http://www.facebook.com/denise.madej Denise Madej

up to 20 years? shit. that’s ridiculous! his mom should serve that time.
Buffettgirl

Wrightsville? Sounds like it was Wrongsville for the little Butt-munch left unattended…

Back in the Dark Ages (OK, it was the 70′s) anyone in the ‘hood could whoop a kid and no one batted an eye. Jeez, when I would be dropped off at friend’s houses my Mom would say to their parents “Whatever you do for discipline applies to this one as well. And if you have to discipline her, she’ll get it again at home.” Where did that go? I wish todays kids knew the concept of consequences….
http://www.facebook.com/shelia.alexander Shelia Lee Ann Alexander

I wonder if he still acts up in the store.
Cassy_Again

I don’t give a rat’s ass what she went through in her life. You don’t get to whip and abuse small children. A good percentage of child rapists were abused, shall we just give them a hug and send them on their way? In fact, I think almost 100% of people in prison for violent crimes were “spanked” as children. And exactly when does “discipline” end and “abuse” begin? Twenty-six whippings with a belt? Even public floggings were usually capped out at half that many lashes in medieval times.
JGo555

Where were the parents to let this child escalate to this behavior. “I’ll show you bad” speaks to me of a precosious child that runs his mouth without discipline and that store clerk was outta line and deserves what she has coming to her. Her punk ass could’ve told the child to point out his parents and proceeded to ask their asses to GTFO of the store.
Cassy_Again

OMG. It was a cookie people. He did not toss a grenade at that crazy woman. He’s an eight-year-old shit disturber who probably has more issues than the NYTs. He’s eight. We’re supposed to guide him on the right path, not beat him senseless with a belt. I don’t care where the mother was, she was probably hiding from that little terror she raised, but that does NOT give anyone the right to beat another person. Ever. It’s why we live in a CIVILized society.
JGo555

And I’ve gotten spanked and getting a belt DOES NOT feel like getting needles. It feels like a fucking belt and it burns.

Also, “2 days before my birthday” sounds like the kid is repeating whatever he heard from adults. I got spanked on MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY and my mother (even now that I have my own kids) still tells me she regrets having me! How’s that for fucking special!?
http://www.krashthrills.wordpress.com/ Anthony Mandich

This kid is a demon. Fits really nicely with my whole demon theory actually. Holy water would have worked a lot better than spanking with a belt made from a cow. Everyone knows cows are controlled by Satan….
tkaz

Last time I was in the Dollar Store some woman was telling her 2 yr old she didn’t like her because she was rude (child was bashful in front of an adult they knew). The Dollar stores are like WalMart…unruly children & parents co-mingle there. When I leave I feel lucky I didn’t beat anyone.
http://www.facebook.com/Leashaness Alicia Lynee’

I hope the nasty bitch rots in prison. Worthless piece of trash.
Buffettgirl

Shit – I’m sorry! My Mom had to make sure I knew I was an extra-marital oopsie, but she was never quite as cruel as your Mom… And I not only got spanked ON my birthday, DURING my party, but that was also the moment Mom picked to have my puppy picked up by it’s new owners. To be fair, we were moving overseas and didn’t want to quarentine the dogs for 6 months, and she thought I’d be distracted by the party and I wouldn’t notice that Liesl (German Shepard puppy) was missing until it was too late. I got spanked for putting up a fuss when I realized what was happening with the dog…
http://www.facebook.com/minizilla David Richter

I have two thoughts. One, yea, the kid was out of control and definitely needed some discipline. That word – discipline – leads me to my second thought. What the cashier did wasn’t discipline. It was abuse. Hit a kid with a belt? I got no issues with that. Hit an 8 year old not just on his tush but all over his body and TWENTY-SIX times? THAT I have issue with. THAT is abusive. Not to mention the fact it wasn’t her kid to do anything to, except maybe other than to scold him and/or kick him and his mother out of the store.
Wolf_of_Mars

Man, if I’d even considered throwing something at ANY adult as a child, I’d not have survived to tell the tale.
Athena

If you’re using a belt, it’s not a “spanking”. It’s a “beating”. I do wish folks would differentiate between the two.

Here’s why this woman and, really, anyone who reacts to an unruly child like this, is a moron: You just gave that little shit the right to feel like the victim. You just took the focus off his bad behavior and placed it on yours. Instead of being disciplined, he’s being rewarded with attention and god knows what else. You’ve probably even justified in his mind why he acted like that toward you to begin with.

Don’t get me wrong… It’s not that I believe this kid would have gotten disciplined in some other manner. But actions like this do the exact opposite of what’s intended.
http://www.facebook.com/schofieldmisty Misty Sue

Lmfao, its official I am warped…..seriously…I find myself giggling a bit. I too have wanted to throttle a child in public before. But, I am also curious as to where the mother was during this.
brandi

yes! my exact thoughts were, now the kids all over the news, and everyone is feeling sorry for him, so do you think your so called “discipline” did anything but motivate him to act that way to the next cashier? Mom should have gotten the beating, and not the child. but, you just can’t put your nose where it doesn’t belong, and for that she lost her job…
EveryVillainIsLemons

Agreed, but it wasn’t that crazy bitch’s job to do that.
brandi

stupid woman! now she’s going to jail, and the little brat is getting sympathy and exposure. she only enabled him to act this way again, and is going to expect the same result. next time he may even push harder to provoke someone.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Sure, that kid acted like a brat, but beating him with a belt was NOT her job. She could have grabbed her manager, grabbed the kid’s mom, and told her to keep her kid with her or risk being kicked out of the store, but she didn’t. Now she’s out of a job AND facing jail time.

In addition, Bell should have kept her mouth shut. In customer service, you’re not supposed to call the customer’s children demons, even if Satan himself is pushing a cart around the store. You’re supposed to plaster on your smile and do your job, then vent when you get home. If she had just bitten her tongue, the situation with the bratty half-pint wouldn’t have escalated, and she will still be employed and residing in her home instead of cooling her heels in the graybar motel.
JGo555

At 8y.o. I knew better than to run my mouth or be disrespectful. I am NOT saying the kid is right but neither is the clerk. His ass should’ve been backhanded in the mouth BY MOM to learn respect and then the clerk should’ve kicked their asses outta the store and banned them. THAT is how shit should’ve gone down.
JGo555

*Hug*
creamofflicka

I’ve worked retailed. I’ve dealt with asshole kids. Embarrassing the parent is always the best solution. My favorite tactic as a retail employee dealing with shitty little assholes?? The bad cop method. Grab the shit and grab something off of a shelf, the loudly start in with ” I KNOW you’re you didn’t just steal that. You little shop lifter, you’re going to jail,…” I think you can guess how the rest goes.
JGo555

NAILED IT!! But Junior was a mix of being missunderstood with a parent that wanted a doll (mom) & a dad was a bit blind but loved him. THAT kid needed an outlet activity mixed with A LOT of attention.
creamofflicka

Firstly, you’re totally right about where the attention has shifted, Away from the little prick of a kid and on the asshole DS employee.

If a belt means beating, then I beat mine. I don’t have the same problem as this kid’s mom, either. However, if someone else raised a hand to my children, the attention would be on me, ‘Cuz I might go a little psycho if someone else (not immediate family) beat/spanked my kids.

Also,..what’s the proper tool for spanking,.. and don’t say “hand”,.. here’s why. Say I hit a person in the head with a belt folded in half,.. now say I hit a person in the head with my hand…. Now apply the same physics to a child’s tiny ass….
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XA4RDSRSUX3XRSCPRR7XNGSPUQ Joshua

I think everyone needs a crazy mother who freaks out and loses her shit when you mess up. Otherwise you’re just going to grow up and be a bad person.

I behaved because I was scared to death of that woman. I’ve seen her swing a purse around like a fucking nunchuck and beat a guy to keep him from beating up his girlfriend outside of a gas station. My dad sassed off to her once and she clubbed him in the head with a stiletto heel. I pissed her off once and she threw a glass tea pitcher at me which shattered…and then a week later she asked “where’s the tea pitcher” because she wanted to make tea. She had a friend who was getting beat up by her husband and she flat out told her not to bother her about it any more because my mother had already tried to help the girl out of the situation once so she must obviously be happy where she’s at since she went back to the guy.

I cussed at teacher when I was in middle school and the principal called my mother at work, she demanded that they spank me, when we got home she spanked me again.
Buffettgirl

I think our Mothers are somehow related! You are so dead-on, kids crave structure, if they know Mama has the capacity to go batshit in the blink of an eye if they misbehave, they tend to make better choices. I know I did. She might be tiny, but the arm on that woman was powerful, and it HURT when she spanked!
Andyman

Wow, bet she didn’t figure on getting up to 20 years for that! I never have understood how/why some adults use a belt. It seems just as effective to swat them on the behind with your hand; well mine anyway. While not as painful, it still sends the same message. And doesn’t leave bruises. But of course you have to discipline your child to begin with and sounds like mom is taking the saying, “it takes a village” literally.
Athena

With all due respect. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered an adult with as little physical control as you claim to have. My father was 6’3″ and 275lbs of ex-football player. If he could spank us (I was only spanked 3 times, and never again after the age of 5) with the right amount of control, surely you can, too.

And the only tool for spanking is a hand. An open hand, to be exact, because that’s what the term “spank” refers to: “To slap or smack with an open hand, esp on the buttocks.”

Lastly, just something to think about: “…As 5-year-olds, the children who had been spanked were more likely than the nonspanked to be defiant, demand immediate satisfaction of their wants and needs, become frustrated easily, have temper tantrums and lash out physically against other people or animals.

The reason for this may be that spanking sets up a loop of bad behavior. Corporal punishment instills fear rather than understanding. Even if children stop tantrums when spanked, that doesn’t mean they get why they shouldn’t have been acting up in the first place. What’s more, spanking sets a bad example, teaching children that aggressive behavior is a solution to their parents’ problems.”

I’m not one of those people who equates spanking (or most variation thereof) with child abuse, but science has compelled my husband and me to find different ways to discipline.
G.I.R.L.

And, unfortunately, no one will realize this.
VilulaNat

Ok, so while there is never any excuse ever to put your hands on another person’s child I can understand that a person could be driven over the edge and just crack under the pressure. I want to know how someone is able to chase a kid, haul him behind a counter and swat him 26 times with a belt before the mother notices! The mother should be sharing a jail cell with the employee in prison for the next 20 years, perhaps the child would then have a chance at reform with a person with actual parental skills. Just in case you are a parent and you are wondering, no one thinks your kids are as cute as you do, no one wants to hear their spine wrenching squeals, no one wants to babysit them for you while you get your shopping on!
G.I.R.L.

I’ve been saying this for years. My mother used to beat and speak us as children; however, she’d do it for totally off the wall reasons (excuse me for digressing a bit here) like accidentally spilling sugar when trying to seal the bag. I never became a delinquent because of it but i knew other kids that were (especially bullies) due to the physical beatings they received at home.

That’s counter-productive; you’re teaching him to not be a tyrant by being tyrant. I wouldn’t dismiss some form of physical punishment (like a spank if it is truly necessary); however, their are alternative forms of discipline as you implied. Parents tend to want to instill fear rather than self-control and respect.
LeaveMeBe

Totally agreed! And that crazy bitch didn’t spank him, she beat him. By no means was I sticking up for her.
G.I.R.L.

What she went through in her life is not relevant to this discussion nor this story; she’s an adult; she should’ve aimed to teach him a life lesson that would make him a better person, not stoop down to his level of lack of self-control. She was pretty dim in her decision making.
GGMon

I understand the frustrations of having to deal with someone’s little brat. With children, you need a lot of patience and while she wasn’t right in her way of dealing with the situation, the little brat should have known better than to talk back to an adult. At 8, my mother would have killed me if I dared to do that. I would sympathize withbell if she whipped his mom!
Athena

Well-stated. Especially that last sentence.
lespacino

You could totally substitute “religions” for “parents” in that last sentence, and it would make just as much sense.
lespacino

Honestly, if it was me, I would’ve called the police and pretended I didn’t see anyone accompany the kid into the store, so thought he was abandoned, then I would point out the assault I received at the little shit’s hands (cookie and battery). Then, I would have them barred from the place, too. That way the kid sees the cops come to respond to his bad behavior in stores, throwing shit at people isn’t cool, and his mother suffers the embarrassment/repercussions for her bad parenting.
melb1970

Totally agreed.. totally. Where was Mom when this little hellion was acting up? Now the clerk was outta line for sure but i highly doubt the monster child was beaten within an inch of his life and if he was.. mom was in the store what the hell was she doing snorting cold medicine?
melb1970

I have to admit this.. I am that mother. I’m also the mother of an angel ( i brag on now who knows what tomorrow will bring but she’s 20 and I’m proud). i only had to go bat shit 4 times.. in 20 yrs ..the evil eye is all it takes.
melb1970

Now, I have to say I got spanked with a belt legit like.. you assumed the position and took your licks. I as a reasonable adult who was one hell of a jerk as a kid realize that I deserved those whippings and if you’re busy victimizing yourself instead of taking responsibility for your actions exactly when will you ever reach adulthood with full accountability..
melb1970

there comes a time when folks behavior becomes their own choices blaming it on childhood is a lame excuse.. a very lame excuse in my experience and quite frankly several other productive adults experience. If you wish to grow outside an experience you must do just that.. not lean on that experience as an excuse for bad behavior..
duper

oh, trust me. she’s acting like she’s better than everyone else.
duper

oh please. don’t spew that garbage around me.
duper

i never said she was abused. maybe the mafia has her husband hostage, and will kill him unless she beats up a kid. all i said is that we don’t know what she went through.
duper

maybe she’s al Qaida. like i said… we dont know.
duper

maybe she was hypnotized.
LeaveMeBe

I don’t know you so I don’t trust you but that’s beside the point. What the store clerk did is inexcusable, regardless of what she’s been through. Capiche?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1616336316 Mary Mahi Mahi

You’re right Simplyatomic. His mom should’ve kept her little boy right by her side not allowed to use Dollar Tree as a playground then he wouldn’t have gotten whipped 26 times. It appears the Dollar Tree employee finally snapped after enough brats came in making unbearable conditions to work in. The mother needs to be FIRED as a parent. Can you imagine this same mother taking this brat out to eat at a restaurant? You won’t have a peaceful meal that’s for sure.
newstarshipsmell

I think @Cassy_Again:disqus is better than everyone else.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1616336316 Mary Mahi Mahi

His mother Miss_Ann_thrope should’ve thanked the Dollar Store employee not called the police right? Next time Dollar Tree if you see an unattended child in your store make an announcement then dial 911 for the parent to be arrested for child neglect. It only takes a second then some pedo bear can kidnap then kill your child.
G.I.R.L.

Yes; unfortunately, responsibility isn’t as forced as it should be in our society. People don’t know how to let go; blaming something from the past is comfortable ground while finding something new for the future is uncharted and dangerous territory.

I recommend this article for those people that need a wake-up call: http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/?fb_action_ids=4270707725479&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=like&fb_source=feed_opengraph&action_object_map=%7B%224270707725479%22%3A321157011332074%7D&action_type_map=%7B%224270707725479%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%7B%224270707725479%22%3A%22like%22%7D&ref=feed_open_graph&refid=28&_ft_=qid.5842051422778707588%3Amf_story_key.-4908629780069090027
G.I.R.L.

Yes, by ridiculously low prices. That cookie the boy tossed at her, only 15 cents! I would be pissed if someone missed that deal as well.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1616336316 Mary Mahi Mahi

His mother Miss_Ann_thrope should’ve thanked the Dollar Store employee not called the police right? Next time Dollar Tree if you see an unattended young child in your store make an announcement then dial 911 for the parent to be arrested for child neglect. It only takes a second then some pedo bear can snatch then kill your child. Adam Walsh was kicked out of the Hollywood Mall in South Florida with some kids by store security acting up after his mother left him at age 6 to play video games at a store while she shopped. His head was found floating in the canal that’s how AMW with John Walsh got started.
Twisted1

I always find it strange when people comment to me about my kids manners. I think it is absurd that my child having good manners is such a big deal. I have had numerous parents tell me my kids have better manners then all of their kids put together. I have taught my kids to respect others and to say please and thank you. How hard is that to do? Apparently too hard.
LeaveMeBe

Me, too, mostly. Except she’s not better than me.
Twisted1

I spanked when my kids were younger. I ALWAYS spanked with my hand and never in anger. I would discuss why they were being spanked with them as well. Spanking was reserved for dangerous behavior or very bad behavior. They were rarely spanked. I remember all too well being beat with a belt for the smallest of transgressions and would never want to inflict that kind of pain on my own kids.
DsMommaBear

I spank my son when called for, but i also sit him down and talk to him. I tell him why he got spanked and how he can avoid it. He knows he is loved

And i agree with an above post, if i caught some employee beating my child, theyd catch a face full of that belt!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dawn-Miller-Giang/100001093293223 Dawn Miller Giang

What a little brat. Useless parents. I hate that $h!t stupid cow should have been watching her child. She really was not paying attention if the store associate was able to hit the “screaming demon” 20+ times before she was able to get to him. Worthless bitch.
Digited

My first thought was: “You probably deserved it, you little shit.” And, speaking from experience of raising two of my own and two from someone else’s womb, I think I get a little credit. While I wouldn’t want a DG employee to take it on themselves to discipline my monsters, I certainly would consider a thank you card for the lesson.
Digited

Precisely what we need LMB.. People spanking other people for being shit-hole parents! That’d learn ‘em! Damn dirty apes.
ShelbySP

Where can I donate to this woman’s defense fund?? She probably saved the little shit some jail time later on in life.
takurospirit

I think it’s funny so many people are suddenly cool with a child being smacked TWENTY-SIX times with a belt. If a story came out on here that mom had beat her kid 26 times about his back and buttocks with a belt you all would be calling for her torture.

Once. Fine. I don’t think spanking does anything but produce aggression and rebellion (going by my own being smacked with a belt so many times it’s just one big blur) but I know people allegedly spank out of discipline and not their own anger and frustration. And once again, going by my own life experience I’ve actually never witnessed purely discipline driven spanking. And obviously a woman beating a stranger’s child while on the clock reeks of rage. But I’m just saying, I could let once go. Though using implements to strike a child seems barbaric. Once, fine. But to just keep doing it over and over. Nothing but abuse.

I don’t understand how it even happened. Where was this child’s mother? If someone grabbed my daughter and started beating her that bitch better have a gun. Because I’d be slamming the cashier’s head into the checkout counter. 26 times.

Quick note: Everyone with children, you know there are times be it you’ve dragged a toddler around to 10 stores and they’re bored shitless, they need a nap, they’re hungry, etc. that they’re going to freak the fuck out. They don’t need to be beaten. They need to be taken home and put to bed or whatever. I’ve had my child, to be blunt, to be a huge fit throwing bitch, but I just take her out of the store. Which is a consequence she does not like as I somehow ended up with a toddler that loves shopping.
LeaveMeBe

It would certainly be a deterrent. Sometimes I’m not so good at getting across what I am thinking when I type. This is one of those times. Just because I have wanted to do this doesn’t mean I would do it because I have better impulse control than that. I don’t mind admitting that I have these feeling though. But I have never called or alluded to another human being as a ‘damn dirty ape’ so I am not sure what you meant by that.
LeaveMeBe

Not to be rude, but WTF is up your butt?
http://www.facebook.com/steve.p.davis.1 Steve Paige Davis

Just give the kid another 6 or 7 years when he shows up in juvy courts-and his mom will be the one having to repeatedly bail him out. Maybe then she’ll back on these moments to figure out why her kid is such a fuck up. Beating him was not okay-it sounds like the employee snapped. If I had thrown a cookie like that, with those words, that would have probably been the last thing I remembered for a few days. The problem is parents have for yeas treated stores like playgrounds for their brats while they shop. These are also the same parents that, when their kid is taken, can’t explain why their child wasn’t by their side. Child abduction is a crime of opportunity-all it takes is one distracted cell phone call and your kid’s head is floating in a canal. this kid and his parent both suck. 20 years is ridiculous though.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

Now usually I don’t whoop my kids unless it is super bad but in public I sure as shit would not let my midgets act like that and even though I wouldn’t beat them I’d make them apologize and that mother should be ashamed of letting her kid act like that.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

Sure does…..he sounds like a little turd. My 8 year old has ADHD and doesn’t act like that in the store even when he is off his meds.
Athena

If you’re going to spank, that’s the way to do it, for sure.
Lena60

Unfortunately I see this too often, children running around the store with no supervision and mom and dad are clear on the otherside of the store.I hate bratty kids, but I hate parents who allow this behavior even more.
Lena60

You are absolutely right Athena, I think how I would have handled it, is get on the store loud speaker, called the mother to the front, and told her to leave my store now and take the brat with her.
Lena60

20 years in prison is hardly worth it. Pfft!
alphatroll

Unfortunately, all the attention is more likely just to encourage more bad behavior out of the brat.
creamofflicka

I may have created a little confusion on my last statement. I don’t hit my kids in the face. I was making the comparison between a hand and a belt. Hitting someone in the face is all about anger. Spanking my kids with the belt on the ass is about discipline. . Why the belt,.. the belt stings, but it will give way under force. I can put the belt away. My hand will never give way to force like the belt will. I will always have my hand (i hope). Open hand you say? When you fight open handed you’re less like;y to hurt your hand, you don’t do any less damage. Self control?, I have plenty. I do discipline my kids with the belt. However, its the last resort and not the on tool for discipline in my bag or tricks. If I break out the belt, the warnings and discussion have stopped and Shit has gotten Real, so to speak. Its measured and controlled. When the belt Then the discussion, again. As a result, my kids aren’t little brats that run wild every where they go. Its not the only method, but it worked for me and it worked fast. And 9 time out of 10 I get results with a look.

As far as defiance goes,.. I don’t use the belt enough to create a behavior like that. In 15 years with 3 kids it’s maybe happened 10-12 times. maybe less… I don’t think that’s horrible. And honestly,… my wife orchestrates most of the discipline in her house. I have no problems with that. I’m just waiting to see what happens when my oldest calls her a bitch. You know,.. the teenage “I’m tougher than my parents” defining moment. I’ll laugh my ass off, I’m sure.
kimbev69

what does it matter what “she” went through? who gives a fuck she beat a kid not once on the but but 25 fucking times with a belt a kid that was not even known to her…how bout we dont’ know what the kid has been through to be acting like that in public…who knows what his home life is like..obviously he isn’t taught right from wrong…
Digited

They remind me of the ‘humans’ in planet of the apes. Just wandering around, eyes glazed, oblivious to the destruction being caused around them. That and their children act like wild monkeys. Thus the term. I’m sure everyone in the world has wanted to do something they didn’t but there have been a few featured here that do exactly what they’re thinking.
BEastDuo

If that was my child, ( not that mine would act that way without consequences) I would have been arrested for assault on any person that raised their hand to my kid.
http://www.facebook.com/sue.waddell.56 Sue Waddell

The shitty part is this MOM probably wanted to do what the clerk did give that child the ass whippin he needed , She did’nt stop this because she seen $$$$$$$ sign’s for every lick he got. I say good for the clerk at least someone was willing to give the little shit some disciline . I don’t think she deserves up to 20 years , Hell murder’s don’t hardly get that !!!
JustBrowsingLife

Amen Morbid.
JustBrowsingLife

I agree mash the parent right square in the mouth and then 86 them and their little angel of hell out of the establishment..
LeaveMeBe

Oh, I get it now. Thanks for clarifying that for me. I wondered if I had said or done something. Haha!
http://www.facebook.com/Artistica2011 Brittany Riptrayvonmartin Land

Little bitch ass boy the parents of coarse thinks that everything their kid does is cute and that he can do no wrong im glad that someone did it apparently the parents were not around watching him when it happened and even if they were they probably wouldnt do anything idots he could get away with murder and they would still take up for him.
duper

true. the kid should’ve been paralyzed. then and only then would it have been worth it.
Gus_Cox

Well, if I were on that store employee’s jury, I sure as hell wouldn’t convict her.
Evangelos

As a veteran of back to school retail, this woman has my deepest sympathy. Lucifer knows I’ve been tempted to drown some little shits in the mall fountain before. Nothing is more aggravating that some little hell spawn messing up your sections pristine displays, smearing whatever congeals on their face and/or hands, and using the changing rooms as their own little peep show… All this while the mother smiles and says how cute they are, as she drops more than we make in a month on these gremlins in one trip (Gap Inc: GAP & Banana Republic), and then expects you to agree. NEVER AGAIN!