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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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Okay, my turn!

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!! I am so glad that someone else brought this up! I feel exactly the same way. The only reason that this case is getting so much attention is because they have the damn videotape. Kids get beat up every single day, a sad but true fact. This particular case baffles me, though. I guess the mother is a member of some sort of wandering Irish tribe (?), and the police consider her and he family to be serious flight risks, which is why they won't release the girl to any of her relatives. Also, the girl apparantly is in tip-top condition: no bruises, broken bones, or any signs of abuse, emotional distress, etc. Like the rest of America, I have seen the tape of the alleged abuse multiple times. This woman didn't simply smack her child across the face, she was wailing on the kid, punching her with her clenched fists. How in the name of god is it that the child is in perfect physical condition?!? Unheard of. ANd the police said that no matter what happens, this girl won't be reunited with her mother for at least three months. I am in no way defending the mother, but I also feel that being yanked away from all of her family members and placed in a foster home for three months will be very traumatizing on a little girl. She won't even have supervised visits with her mom, at least that's what I heard. I don't understand why not, if the childs' best interests are what's being considered.

ANyway, I'm off of my soap box. Bottom line: I'm sick of hearing about it, too!

You know...

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

...I was thinking that, too. Granted what she did was wrong, but what about all the other parents who have abused their kids for years? Uf.

[dangerpest.livejournal.com]

Anybody notice the dye-job?
The sad thing is that this happens all the time, and people get slapped on the wrist for it, and this lady is probably going to get away with it because of these cases. Personally, I would love to punch her the face... If she would offer her face for punching on ebay to pay her legal bills, I would bid on it.

-p

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.

[goatsupreme.livejournal.com]

I think it's funny that her last name is Too-Good.

I saw her on TV this morning talking about how she was all pissed because she was returning something at a store and they were discriminating against her because she's some sort of Gypsy or Carnival Worker.

[saintclaire.livejournal.com]

Im just so damned happy they arent molesting me once again with the "WAR ON TERROR".

I agree with everyone else. The only reason this is getting so much coverage is 1. because it was caught on tape, and 2. because we have seen 3 little girls killed or kidnapped this past summer - I think that children but little girls in particular grab at our heartstrings now because of that. The media knows this and runs with it.

Can you say ratings??

Re: Okay, my turn!

[kytty.livejournal.com]

I've only seen the video once and may have missed important bits, and like you..I have no wish to excuse what this woman did but I didn't notice any signs of the girl cringing or exhibiting fear towards her mother. When she got into the car seat, she bounded in an energetic way. It seems that a child who was consistently abused would cringe in some way.

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty damn ironic, huh?

[splunty.livejournal.com]

I am just excited thinking about Ahmad Rashad debuting the footage on Real TV.

"An ordinary woman putting an ordinary child in an ordinary car? Ordinarily, this would be no big deal. But this was no ordinary day for stuffing this child into a car. Instead, this child got the stuffing beat the crap out of her! And there goes the mother! Wham! Wham! That's gonna leave a mark."