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[wickedflea]

Am I wrong for being a little annoyed at the coverage of the mother who was videotaped hitting her child? I mean, YES, it's terrible, and YES, she should go down for it, but the feeding frenzy is a little disturbing. Why don't people make a big deal out of other child abuse cases? Sadly, they happen all the time, but they're not big news. But because this one was caught Live on Tape, people are going apeshit. It's just indicative of how our country is -- we're going to ignore something until you put it right up there on the screen in front of us, and then we're going to act like it's the only time it's ever happened.

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Since you mentioned it...

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

...I heard that when she saw all the media coverage, she dyed her hair and took her daughter to a doctor, and had him do a complete physical exam and take photos of the girls' entire body in an attempt to prove tht she was not regularly abused, that she was just in a horrific mood and that this was a one-time incident. Apparantly she was at Kohl's and threw a fit trying to return something, so the security people were already watching her because she made a scene. They just happened to be looking at the monitors when she went out to the car, and then they saw her hit the kid. If she hadn't drawn so much attention to herself in the store, she might never have been observed beating her kid, since many of those security tapes are not regularly reviewed.