Juanita Baker, on probation for child abuse, arrested again

**oddball** · February 11th, 2010, 04:43 AM

EL MIRAGE – Al El Mirage mother of seven is accused of whipping her children with a belt.

Juanita Renee Baker, 31, was arrested on Tuesday after her 8-year-old daughter showed a counselor at her school her welts and bruises.

3TV has learned Baker was already on probation for a previous child abuse conviction. Her kids are now with Child Protective Services.

http://www.azfamily.com/news/Mom-alr...-84073842.html

her myspace: http://www.myspace.com/juanita_baker

I am catching up on homework and enjoying the kids! How is everyone! Im back!!! I have my laptop up and runnin!Mood: determined

this is her blog, i couldn't get it up : XXXX

**oddball** · February 11th, 2010, 04:50 AM

EL MIRAGE, AZ -- Authorities say an El Mirage woman has been arrested for child abuse after a school counselor found cuts and bruises on the woman's daughter.

According to police, officers responded to Riverview Elementary School last Friday for a report of child abuse.

A school counselor told police that an 8-year-old child had scrapes, welts, and light-colored bruises on her left leg.

The child apparently told the counselor she received the injuries when her mother "whipped her with a belt" the night before.

During their investigation, detectives also determined that the 31-year-old woman had also struck her 5-year-old twins with the belt.

Officials say detectives also learned the woman is currently on probation for a previous child abuse conviction and alerted her probation officer to the recent incidents.

The suspect was called to the probation officer's officer on Tuesday where she was arrested. During the interview, the woman allegedly made statements about striking all three children with the belt.

She is charged with three felony counts of child abuse and was booked into the Maricopa County Jail.

Police say Child Protective Services assisted in the investigation and has removed all seven of the woman's children from her home.

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/we...u_GgWipUg.cspx

**Dakota Valkyrie** · February 11th, 2010, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by oddball

this is her blog, i couldn't get it up : XXXX

I deleted that link. It's not her blog. Her MySpace got hacked and that is a spam comment post. So is the one inside the blog on her MySpace.

**Okeebc** · February 11th, 2010, 12:15 PM

Stories about kids/young adults who obviously have never had a good old fashioned whippin...

Stories about parents who get arrested for disciplining their kids...

Damned if you do and damned if you dont.

My mom whipped the shit out of me for cutting the hem off of her brand new drapes. They made perfect sleeping bags for my GI Joes...
Do you think I ever did that again? NO!

**sleepingwithghosts** · February 11th, 2010, 03:25 PM

None of those kids look unhappy and abused in those pictures. Maybe her kid needed a spankin. I think light bruising can occur even with a regular spanking.. How big is this town?

**thehesbomb** · February 11th, 2010, 10:11 PM

An El Mirage mother of seven was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of striking her children with a belt, El Mirage police say.

Juanita Renee Baker, 31, is accused of child abuse after her 8-year-old daughter told a counselor at Riverview Elementary School last Friday that the scrapes, welts and bruises on her left leg were from a belt her mother used to whip her, according to a news release issued by the El Mirage Police Department.

The school counselor notified police, who reported the situation to Child Protective Services, the release said.

An investigation by El Mirage detectives, with aid from CPS, led to the discovery that Baker had also hit her 5-year-old twins with the belt, the release said. During the investigation, detectives became aware that the mother was on probation for previous child-abuse convictions and informed her probation officer of the situation.

According to the release, the probation officer called Baker to his office near 59th and Glendale avenues, where El Mirage detectives arrested her when she arrived.

Baker later discussed striking the three children with a belt in a police interview, the release said. She was booked into the county jail and charged with three felony counts of child abuse.

CPS has reportedly removed Baker's seven children from her home.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/s...abuse0212.html

Officials say detectives also learned the woman is currently on probation for a previous child abuse conviction and alerted her probation officer to the recent incidents.

The suspect was called to the probation officer's officer on Tuesday where she was arrested. During the interview, the woman allegedly made statements about striking all three children with the belt.

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/we...u_GgWipUg.cspx

Juanita Baker's MySpace:

http://www.myspace.com/juanita_baker

**Nell** · February 13th, 2010, 02:59 AM

Originally Posted by sleepingwithghosts

None of those kids look unhappy and abused in those pictures. Maybe her kid needed a spankin. I think light bruising can occur even with a regular spanking.. How big is this town?

The size of the town matters why?

And I think sometimes spanking is appropriate, but never bruising. I have never bruised my kids with a "regular spanking." If you bruise that is a beating and not ok.

**sleepingwithghosts** · February 13th, 2010, 07:01 AM

The size of the town doesn't matter.. I was just asking. I don't really spank my kids anymore.. as they are too old for them. I do however remember getting spankings as a kid, sometimes with a belt. I even remember occassional light bruising, but I don't feel I ever recieved a beating.

**this is going badly** · February 13th, 2010, 08:49 PM

Hitting a child with a belt is NOT a spanking!

A spanking is an occassional slap on the ass through clothing when all other measures have failed. For example, I might spank a kid who keeps running out into the street because getting hit by a car can kill him/her. Using a belt as a wepon is not a spanking, it's abuse. Anything that leaves whelts, cuts and/or bruises is abuse. No one "deserves" to be abused.

I would not hit an animal with a belt much less a child. Perhaps this "mommy" should have considered how difficult it is to raise kids before she had SEVEN of them?