Stranger slaps toddler in Georgia Walmart
Let me set the scene… you are in Walmart and your 2-year-old is tired and crying but you are trying to squeeze in a last minute shop. A guy in your aisle tells you that “if you don’t shut the baby up, I will shut her up for you.” You ignore him because although he may be an ass you don’t expect him to actually do anything. Then, when your little girl continues to cry into the next aisle, this strange man grabs your baby and slaps her across the face four or five times. That’s what 61-year-old Roger Stephens did in a Georgia Walmart.
The article on CNN doesn’t tell us how the mother reacted but I am curious as hell. Ever since a friend in college played the “what if” game with me, weekly for four years, I always ask myself how I think I would handle random situations other people are faced with — like this one. So, what if that was my kid? Would I be too stunned and freeze with fear. No way. I can say with 100% confidence that I wouldn’t freeze. And now that this has happened to someone else I will be prepared with a reaction should some unlucky fellow try to do this to my kid. I think I would immediately try to gouge out his eyes. I am small so I have to go for a weak area and I am guessing his testicles weren’t easy to reach since he was facing the little girl. I certainly would have cursed him out and aggressively gone after him, even if it meant pulling his brown hair out of his head. Maybe I would be lucky enough to be in an aisle with baseball bats. In fact, I think I might end up being the one arrested if it was my kid he decided to take out his superstore-rage on. Don’t they sell guns at Walmarts in Georgia? Now don’t get me wrong – I don’t think this crime warrants Roger’s inclusion in this website’s weekly column People Who Should be Killed This Week; however, he should get a good beat down.
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…gauge out his eyes, curse him out, pull his hair out, and then that talk about baseball bats and guns, all in front of you little girl? If you are put on notice by someone that they are considering doing something to your child, please, don’t ” try to squeeze in a last minute shop.” Take her and run!
I realize that crying, whining kids are sometimes irritating. But guess what? Kids cry because they are tired, or hungry or both. I think the mom and the child need our sympathy, and definitely not a slap.
There are children I think need discipline when they are running through the store and creating all kinds of havoc – completely out of control. And, I’ve scolded with my disapproval more than once, but I would never slap a child – even mine. There is nothing as pleasing to see a mother with her kids walking along side her basket with one of their hands on the basket – a real good mom’s rule.
But for a stranger to strike an already tired and cranky child – that guy deserves a charge of assault.
If the man would have struck my child you would be attending his funeral.
Do people forget that they were once little children who may have cried or screamed or did something that someone else deemed unsuitable in public? I’m sure I cried as a child whenmy mother took me out in public as did my children and my grandchildren. You try to quiet the child but sometimes they just can’t help crying. That’s what babies and small children do. If ever, someone told me they would shut my child up, they better hope they can run like hell because they’ll pay for that action like they wouldn’t believe. Big, bad MAN (?) slapping a 2 year old. Says a lot about this piece of garbage. Bet your bottom dollar this guy wouldn’t have the guts to walk up to another man and say and do this to him for fear of what would happen to him.
I agree………Mama should have been smacked.
If that had been me and my child the headlines would read “mom in jail accused of killing the guy who dared to slap her child”
I wonder if the little girl stopped crying after being slapped by a stranger.
Headline should read: Nutcase Runs Into Lazy Parent at Store, Child Pays for It.
To some extent I agree with the first post — it’s generally not a good idea to resort to violence in front of your child. However, I think it’s perfectly appropriate when someone is physically assaulting your child. I am a tree-hugging, peace-loving hippie but I would have beat that crotchety old man to a wrinkled pulp if he laid a finger on my little girl.
Should a stranger take things in their own hands? no. Should mothers learn to take control of their children? YES. It is unacceptable for parents to let their children cry and disturb others. No, I didn’t cry in stores when I was a child. If I started crying, my mother took me and left. When i was old enough to understand, I knew it was unacceptable, and if I did it or threw a tantrum, it was my ass. I would not get my way. Period. Now, a call to all mothers. Man up. A call to the stranger to hit a random child…go to hell.
I would have knocked his false teeth out the minute he said it.
sorry s.o.b.
This was not a movie theater, quiet restaurant, or an airplane. It was a Wal-mart. You have no right or reasonable expectation of silence in a Wal-mart. FFS, is there any Wal-mart in this country that isn’t loud?
A crying child is just one noise on top of 50 other noises going on. Let it go!
I don’t get why some people are jumping on the mother. We don’t know that she wasn’t trying to calm her baby down. We don’t even know how much time passed between the threat and the attack only that it was described as ‘a few moments’.
I think it is horrific that this man would take it upon himself to say he would shut the baby up and especially to hit her. It’s assault pure and simple.
That being said…the way people allow their children to act many times is in itself horrific. Not sure where the concept of discipline has gone but I see it rarely. In college I worked in cafe where we sold coffee beans. A mother and her toddler were sitting at a table in the cafe. At one point the kid got up and started running around. He was sticking his hands into the beans, throwing them on the floor and just being disruptive. I made a comment to the mother because I really was afraid the kid would pull one of the 15 lb canisters onto his head but she did nothing. After 10 more minutes of this I yelled at him myself and told him to stop. The mother had a fit, cursed at me and then proceeded to let the kid go at it again. IMO, don’t have children (or, don’t take them out in public) if you cannot be 100% responsible for their behavior. This includes screaming, crying, kicking etc…it happens, yes but good parents know how to minimize or stop this sort of behavior. There’s almost never an excuse.
No, “good parents” do NOT always “know how to minimize or stop this sort of behavior”. That kind of statement can clearly be made only by someone who has either never had children or has been fortunate enough to have only the kind of children who are easily distracted and calm. Some kids rarely tantrum. Some kids tantrum 15 times a day, no matter WHAT the parents do about it. Running around a coffee shop and throwing beans is one thing; crying in a Wal-Mart is a completely different thing.
When my 5-year-old daughter was young enough to tantrum, I did not leave the store every time she got upset enough to cry. We need food in the house, for one thing, and she cried every time I made her sit in a basket, yet refused to stay with me if I let her out (a common problem for 2-year-olds, for those of you judgmentalists who think “good parents” can stop that kind of behavior in a kid that young). Since my husband’s job in the military kept him gone for long stretches at a time, while I was alone in a strange city, just leaving the store was not always an option.
Restaurants are one thing – you can always leave. The grocery store? Sometimes you need food, for crying out loud.
I do not condone what this man did AT ALL. and i don’t think he is “old” by today’s standards…61 is the new 51, and 51-year olds can be as fabulous as people 20 years younger (my mom would be glad to hear that). obviously, he is impatient and a bully and may even be mentally ill, which are characteristics that should be considered indpendent of his age.
i have been at the breaking point with other peoples’ children in public places for some time now. since when did Target or Trader Joe’s become Romper Room? i think a lot of parents don’t try hard enough to quiet and control their children in public because many of them have an enormous sense of entitlement. they think that because they created life that the world now owes them something, among those things are automatic respect and acknowledgement as well as patience. NEWSFLASH: i don’t owe any parent anything. if you chose to create a family, that is your business. let’s keep it that way. your child’s actions should not trickle over into my arena of obligation or tolerance.
imagine if an adult ran through the aisles of Walmart being disruptive and possibly belligerent. would we ignore that? probably not. while little children cannot be expected to act like mature adults, their parents certainly should live up to that expectation and do all they can to control outbursts or any other behaviors that can be deemed undesirable and grossly inappropriate. PARENTS: it is not your “right” to inconvenience others by way of your children’s antics. let’s take a step back and reexamine the “I have a child and it’s my right and just deal with it” attitude.
while i am not at all condoning violence (i, like Bruce, am a tree-loving, recycling, organic, hippie pacifist), i do hope that this horrible incident opens up the door to a greater discussion about parental responsibilities and committments. i’m willing to give you and your children some respect. all i’m asking is for some in return.
Albert, maybe you are right. Gauging out his eyes and going for a shotgun might be a little extreme — but like I said, I am small. A punch in the face from me wouldn’t do much. I really am not a violent person – but we are not just talking about a verbal threat. This guy grabbed onto a 2-year-old (not an obnoxious 10-year-old, which still wouldn’t be right but could have possibly been more provoked) and slapped her across the face… continuously.
I also don’t think we can judge this mother based on the fact her kid cried while she walked the aisles. We don’t know her circumstances. Maybe it wasn’t a last minute shop but it was a shop for her elderly mother. And who knows why her kid was crying (and really, that’s not the point)! The only one that can be fairly judged, at this point, is the ass that attacked a baby girl.
What some posters seem to be missing is that this child is TWO! I have a two-year-old grandson who is naturally very good-natured. But, being two, he will occasionally cry or have a melt-down. Most two-year-olds don’t listen to reason– they are still babies! Hitting them will cause pain and only make them cry harder. The man who slapped this baby’s face should be put in jail. He’s obviously dangerous and unbalanced. How dare he assault a small child, no matter what the child was doing!
Who is gonna watch this guy’s lawn while he is jail–there may be a lot of kids in his neighborhood that he needs to keep off of his lawn,
BTW, he photographs like Donal;d Rumsfeld–angry old white dude–yikes!
I was at Target when a 3 or 4 year old child was sc reeming “I want that toy” for 20 minutes. I was furious. I would have never been able to “Ask can I have that toy more than twice” . I went to the lady and glarred at the lady and said ,”you know what lady, if you were a parent instead of this childs friend, she would not act like this and bother everyone. I then told her what my parents would have done if I even thought about acting like that. Her mouth dropped to the ground, picked her chid up and the chid was silent after that.. If you don’t like my opinion hate it for you all !!! Maybe if more parents were Parents instead of trying to Buy your childs love as a friend the children woulod know their plast in this world!!
Instead of blaming the short tempered man, blame the hapless, stupid mother, who has no control over her kid. It would have been better had he slapped her.
I completely agree with Raquel. There is no way that I would have been allowed to get away with the behavior exhibited by the two year old in question. My mother would have, and did on one occasion, picked me up and leave the store. I was then disciplined in private. After I settled down and understood that only if
and when I behaved myself, we returned to the store. Needless to say, it never happened again. And, no, my mother never laid a hand on me but she did make it clear that my behavior was unacceptable and that she was prepared to take me home if I did not behave myself. My mother was strict but also fair not just to me but also those around us. But then when I was growing up children were seen but not heard.
Why is this attitude that it is okay if you are in a “Wal-Mart”,a child should be able to act like they are at the playground ?? What kind of idiots are you? some of the comments say it is not an airplane or the movie theater. I worked at McDonalds, same type of mentality. You would NOT be surprised how many people show up with their brats and act like they have never been out of the house, parents or children. We are not talking about people living in a trailer park, rollin up in the piece of junk auto. These are people have have nice within 5 year old vehicals, live in very nice homes. With the attitude I don’t live here so I don’t care what kind of mess the kids or I leave this place.Some times it would be easier if we just built a new building after these types of people left the building. A child only has their parents to teach them how to act in public
I have three kids of my own, and I have been in the position of my kids crying in public. Now, I do what I can to stop the crying, but depending on how bad it is and what there crying about is what you need to look at in handling the child. Also, I have been around other parents kids screaming to where is does strike a nerve in me, I try to just leave the area till their under control. Now I have a short fuse and I try to put myself in others positions, and if a stranger came up and threatened me or my child. I promise you everyone in the store would know it and there would be more of a scene than what any child would make. Now, if someone had the nerve to strike my child or just grab one of them, I would snap whatever elbow was attached to the hand that touched my child. I would deal with the consequences that would follow for the bodily harm to the a** that would dare man handle a child.
If that SOB had slapped my child, he would have had to have had my shoe removed from his a$$. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior whatsoever. I agree, screaming children in Walmart are annoying as all get out but who the hell do you think you are slapping someone’s child!
Hit a child – Go to jail
There’s no excuse for touching another person’s child – ever. Once he made the threat my next stop would be store security. I’ve heard of mothers spanking a child in a store but never a strange man doing it. He may not be right in the head – hope they do a psyche evaluation on him or a medical scan to see if he has had a stroke that altered his common sense. He was so far out of line there may be something wrong with him. In some measure the mother was at fault – shopping is not more important that reporting that threat. Hope the child got a scan to rule out brain damage or damage to the spine in the neck.
I applaud someone that finally has the nerve to do this.
I can not tell you how many times I have tried to do my OWN shopping and have to deal with unmanaged and out of control children.
Don’t blame the man because he finally got fed up. BLAME the parents for not having control over their kid.
I say it to each person I encounter while shopping with their kids and I will say it here – if you can’t control them, don’t bring them.
People should not have to tolerant bastard children in public because the parents don’t want to “traumatize” their precious snowflake.
It’s about respect. Something that clearly you know nothing about.
All of the self-righteous people saying the MOTHER was to blame, grow up and look around. There was no indication the mother was lazy, a poor parent, or doing anything other than what she should’ve been doing. Sometimes 2-year old children cry and throw tantrums. Sometimes you’re stuck needing to finish shopping.
The idea that the man was even REMOTELY in the right by slapping someone’s child is absolutely ludicrous. So, also, is jumping in to attack the mother when there is NO evidence that she was doing anything wrong.
I don’t care how much yelling my child was doing, and what parenting technique I may or may not have been using to deal with it – if a 61 year old man stepped in and slapped my 2-year old I guarantee you he would’ve come away with broken bones in that hand and arm. There’s no indication that the mother did anything wrong, don’t turn HER into the bad-guy in the situation to satisfy your need to be superior and judgmental.
Danman, you APPLAUD this guy? You applaud a 61 year old man physically abusing a 2-year old stranger?
Congratulations. That makes you a complete tool, and the kind of person the planet would be better without.
What if…..ole boy would have gotten ‘beat down 101″ and I say that even NOT being the mother. Babies crying drives anyone and everyone crazy, yet you don’t hit someone else’s child, unless you were a parent on my block, in which case, you get caught doing wrong, that mother gave you a spanking, called your mother, who in turn gave you another spanking for a)doing wrong and b)making someone else have to discipline you. But for what he did…he’d be carried out on his back calling the police for protection.
I am pretty sure that most of the comments stating that the mother is to blame is from people who either don’t have children or are miserable human beings who think the world revolves around them. In that case, who wants to hear what you have to say. I have a 5 yr old daughter who is very well behaved but she still has had her moments. If she ever cried because I said no to something, I let her cry it out. It’s an emotion that she needs to release. When she is crying because she misses her poppy, I let her cry it out. I never want to discourage her from expressing herself. Since when has crying hurt anyone?? Yeah, it’s not my favorite thing to hear when I’m out in public either but hey, it’s life and I can think of a lot of other noises that I wouldn’t want to hear before a crying child.
DANMAN…PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO TOLERATE PEOPLE WHO CAN’T SPELL TOLERATE!
LAURIE…..YOU AND YOUR MOM SHOULD BE SMACKED!
RICHALENE AND AMY…I HIGHLY DOUBT YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE TWO YEARS OLD AND NEVER CRIED IN PUBLIC AND ALWAYS DID WHAT YOU WERE TOLD. PLEEEASE!!!
Stop blaming the mother all of you ignorant individuals!!!
I have three young ones, ages five, seven, and nine. When they were a little smaller, they had their moments. It has nothing to do with how people parent. It has nothing to do with parents who can’t control their kids. ALL kids get like that once in a while. So if you can’t deal with it, ignore it.
I’ve seen plenty of moms being stern with kids in stores, and I go about my business. Kids get tired, cranky, worn out, etc. etc. etc. I would never tell anyone else how to handle their kid. I don’t know that kid, and I don’t know what went on during their day. So for me to take it into my own hands is completely unacceptable. This guy needs to be locked up for life. He ASSAULTED a TWO YEAR OLD, and some of you think that’s OK? What is this country coming to?
Boshnack – well done! Great topic and loads of comments. Nice!
I was going to respond as to what a bunch of assholes most of you are, but VinsGirl went ahead and said everything I was thinking. Well done.
A stranger hit a two year old – it ends there you miserable (obviously childless) bastards.
A stranger touches my kid at any age and I’ll ram my fist so far down his throat they’ll have to surgically remove it.
Oh and Albert R. Killackey, Esq (as if anyone gives a shit that you’re a lawyer) I’m pretty sure Amy’s daughter wouldn’t have noticed her mom beating down the man that just wailed on her face considering both of her eyes would probably be swollen shut after the beating she just received. Idiot
Stop blaming the mother. There is not mention of how long the child was crying and/or why. For all we know, the child was crying because it was sick and she was trying buy the right medicine. Sometimes it’s wrong to leave the store when the kid is throwing a tantrum, too – it teaches them that if they don’t want to be there, they just have to cry and Mommy/daddy will drop everything and give in to their desire to not be there.
As others have mentioned, it was a Walmart – not a restaurant or library where quiet s/b expected.
Sheesh – what if the guy had slapped a crying child on a plane? Young kids don’t understand how to alleviate ear pressure. My 5 yr old niece started crying when the plane was landing because the pressure was too painful for her and was too upset to listen while we were telling her to blow her nose, etc. We (her Mom and Dad, older brother, the flight attendant and I) felt bad, but we were doing whatever we could to help her, but it was just too much for her. Does that make us ‘bad’ for not being able to get her to stop crying?
First off if i am in a PUBLIC store shopping with my kids and they are not breaking , stealing , or robbing the place, i have as much right to be there as ANYone.Even if they are crying or having a fit. Its not that i have no respect for other people, because i will do the best i can to control them,but i am in a PUBLIC place. And i knew before i went to this PUBLIC place(like everybody knows) that in this PUBLIC place will be people from all walks of life. My point is a perfect world can only exist in ones own mind because everyone has their own ideal what a perfect world is.
And 2nd anyone who thinks that what this man did was right for any reason belongs in the same place that old man belongs.
I wonder if this took place in the medicine section because from the photo of this guy it appears that maybe he had a migraine and was looking for something to kill severe pain and nausea when he encounterd a toddler with a diaper rash from Hell and a mom desperately searching for some oitment . No? well ok..
In reply to Jaclyn Roth. I am a children’s lawyer and have represented thousands of abused children in Dependency court. When I wrote above my thoughts were focused on the duty a parent has to protect their child. Now, although I am not saying Mom is guilty of child endangerment for not taking her child and running after being put on notice that her child may be in danger, I do think it is clear that is what she should have done. On the other hand, what do you think a parent should do if they hear a car horn and tires skidding when they are legally in a crosswalk?
I must be honest, this is why I don’t shop at Walmart. The prices might be low but ….the stores are full of weirdos.
I also have to agree with most you. I want to teach my kids to do the right things in life but I also want them to know that I am NOT going to let anybody lay a hand on them and get away with it. A beat down would be in order.
I think that anybody that is talking bad about the mother or any mother I believe needs to have a child of there own and then see if you would say the same thing. I have three kids and my youngest is 5 and he is ADHD and sometimes can not handle his mood swings. Sometimes he is a little uncontrollable but why should us parents stay away from places and restaurants, after all they don’t have signs on doors saying keep your chid quiet or leave. If anything if you don’t like the noise why don’t you people get up and leave. It makes me mad when people think we should stay in hibernation when our children have their tantrums and can not be quiet but I am sorry to say this is one mother that will not stay out of places and if you have something to say hopefully you can say it to my face because I would love for you to. As far as what happened that man better br glad it wasn’t my child because he would be six feet in the ground because I don’t hit my child neither will someone else.
Dude. That guy is such a freak. How dare he hit a child cuz it got on his nerves. As a teenager, I see many of these tantrums at Target and Walmart. It gets annoying, but hold the anger. Its only for ten minutes, so be patient!!!!!!
And seriously, why blame the mother?! All u self-righteous people. Arrogant and prideful. You were a kid. You probably had those tantrums when you were young. I admit having a tantrum at Toy R Us.
And if I had a baby, and that lunatic came across and hit my child, I would beat the crap out of him. I don’t care if other people stare at me. A stranger is abusing a child. It’s cruel. And expect the obvious. Walmart of course will have children crying their lungs out. That guy seriously made a mistake of hitting that child. He should go to jail for child abuse and assualt. If I were the mother, I would sue him for hitting my child.
I do’nt believe in spanking my own child less someone else child what are people thinking?
I can understand the frustration of the man in question – but not his actions. It frustrates me when my child throws a tantrum when we are out (luckily, she doesn’t do that often). However, I think it’s important to know more about the circumstances under which this happened before any self righteous non parents start to blame the mother. My daughter has had a LOT of health problems, and it isn’t unusual for us to be at the pediatrician at 8am and to then have to stop at Wal Mart or Walgreens or somewhere like that to get medicine. If my child is sick, and we’re out, she is going to cry. Should she be slapped for crying when she has a 103 degree fever while we’re at the store to get more Motrin and an antibiotic? I think not.
I dare anyone to touch my child…..I hurt people for doing nothing to me….mess with my child and see what happens
Kids cry….
I’m sure that those of you who say “she or the man should beat the kid”…..well lets just say you were a kid and cried to so get over yourself or STAY AT HOME…..where you can control it
last I knew Walmart was not a classy place….
i think that the man was in the wrong because he had no right to hit some one else child. if it bothers you so much, maybe you should leave the store and come back another day. for all those who say the mother is to blame and doesn’t know how to control her child is intitled to your own opinion, even if it is a stupid opinion. maybe the mother had tried everything in her power to calm down the child, ut’s not her fault that the child just didn’t feel like cooperating. now, if it was my child, old man or not, he would have got a beat down. then id probably take him to court.
children cry for a multitude of reasons….adults get irratated for even more…it all boils down to…no one has the right to put their hands on another persons child….period
OMG! Some of you who have posted comments about slapping the mother whose child was crying, i hope this comes back and bites you in the ASS really hard! Because one day in may be you in the store with a crying child and someone opens their big fat mouths about something that is none of their business. when you see a child crying or acting up do not stop and stare, do not slap the child, do not correct the parents on their parenting…JUST MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS!!!!!! I am a mother of 3 and I will tell you this I am getting tired of people staring at me or my kids because they act up, that is what kids do, they do not want to be “locked up” in a store, they want to be outside playing, runnig off that energy. I know, i have been there with my kids and sometimes it is hard to find a babysitter to watch your kids so you can go gorcery shopping or it is hard to take the kids with you if you just have to pick up a few things and parents should not be stoned to death or publicly humiliated for their kids disbehaving. When I was growing up i got spanked on the butt for not being have in a store, but nowadays if you even spank your child in a store you get arrested! This is why we have kids taking guns to school or killing their parents because they have no parental athorities to teach them right or wrong. Now there is a such thing as child abuse, but giving a child a tap on the butt, is not abuse. This is to warn them they are behaving badly and that they need to stop and not do that again or they will get another spanking. I have tried the time-outs and anything else you parenting experts can throw at me and it does not work; however, if I give my kids a spank on the butt for doing something wrong they DO NOT do it again! This is a warning to all who may come in contact with me or my kids in a store…DO NOT STARE OR COMMENT ABOUT MY KIDS BEHAVIOR OR MY PARENTING SKILLS! AND ABOVE ALL ELSE DO NOT SLAP MY KIDS OR YOU WILL END IN THE MORGUE!!!!!
Danman is the only person who makes any sense on this post. The mother should have taken care of her child’s whining, because it’s ignorant if she doesn’t, and it is rude to other people to just let it continue. I don’t agree with hitting the child six times when once, and once or twice to the mother would suffice.
If people would keep their damned legs closed, we would not have this problem. I’ve been around children my whole life, and I honestly cannot stand them. I think the mother had this coming on her, and maybe now she will be a better parent.
I think many of you are missing the point of this discussion. The point was that a stranger took it upon himself to assault, yes assault, someone else’s child. A two year old at that. Also for those of you who are saying the child was out of control and the mother was a poor excuse for a parent are forgetting something. Either that or you did not read the article thoroughly. The child was seated in the cart and the sorry SOB who assaulted the child later walked up to the mother’s cart and threatened the mother with violence to her child. The little girl was not running around the store unsupervised and the mother was right there with the cart. Perhaps the little girl was having a meltdown, perhaps she was tired. We don’t know the circumstances as to why the child was upset. There is absolutely, without a doubt, no snowball’s chance in hell, that this stranger’s action was appropriate. You do not hit someone else’s child! Where I was raised that was assault and you went to jail for that. Even if the little girl had not been in the cart there is still no excuse for someone other than her parents to discipline her unless given permission by the parents. You DO NOT Hit Another Person’s Child!!!! It’s assault!
All of these other people who are saying that the child deserved to be smacked, even once, or that the mother should have been smacked are absolutely bats–t crazy! You do not go around smacking children who are not yours because they annoy you! I hope to God that piece of dogs–t goes to jail for a long time for assault! If it had been my child this happened to, they would have had to call an ambulance for the guy because he would have had no less than half a dozen broken ribs, two broken legs, and arms, and probably blunt force trauma to the head. And that would have happened before the guy even had a chance to lay a finger on my child. You do not touch other people’s kids!!!
For the people who are siding with the guy: God, don’t you remember crying for no reason when you wanted THAT ice cream sandwich instead of the other identical one? or wanting to sit at THAT table instead of the only empty one left at Starbucks? I don’t know anyone who hasn’t. Would YOU blame your parents because of something you did when you were too little to understand? you might as well go assulting and slapping adults because “they were being annoying and loud”!!!
HOW ON EARTH CAN ANY BODY GET AWAY WITH HITTING ANY ONE ,,,TO SAY THE LEAST A TWO YEAR OLD AND A STRANGER AT THAT ,,,,WELL THE PARENT SHOULD HAVE ASKED ALL THE OTHER PARENTS TO COME TO THE RECUE AND JUMPED ON HIM ,,, TO THE FLOOR AND POUR FOOD ALL OVER HIM AND WASH HIS MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP ,,,,,,,, AND MAY
I ADD THAT WE ARE IN THE LAST DAYS BEFORE CHRIST RETURNS AND THINGS WILL GET WROST ,,,BUT COME ON PEOPLE LETS BE THERE FOR ONE ANOTHER ,,HELP EACH OTHER ,,, PLAY SUPER WOMAN AND SUPER MAN TOGATHER WE CAN WIPE OUT THESE LUNIES BUGERS ” NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AIDE ” OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THEN ATTACK TWO YEAR OLDS LETS UNITE TOGETHER AMERICA
Wow! I have a 13 yr. old that is autistic an frequently melts down in a store. I get a lot of dirty looks from people. I do my best to keep her calm. If someone threatened to harm my child or spanked her there would be a law suit. I would hope that I would not lose it on the person because I would want to throw every thing I could legally at the jerk that traumatized a disabled child or any child for that matter!
The only thing that “Chief Running Jackass” had to do was leave the area,until ethier the toddler had stopped crying,or the mother and child had left the store.
If this uneducated,ignorant moron had any brain cells,he should realize that he could face a civil suit,as a result of his actions. At 61 years of age,not only should he know better,but a judgement for monetary damages against him,could hurt his chances for a halfway decent retirement. Meanwhile,the toddler’s future college education is all or partially paid for.
In the future his shopping outings to “Wally World” could be to pick out what flavors of “Alpo Helper” to purchase,and I don’t mean for his dog ethier.