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So this **** in Georgia decided to punish her kid for talking back to her. She heated up a pair of scissors on the stove and cut off part of his tongue. She got 10 years of probation, no prison. Now if I went and cut off part of someone's tongue, I'm pretty sure I'd do some time. Why the double standard? Is it ok to cut pieces off of a person if that person is your kid?

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9613151/detail.html?rss=atl&psp=news

So this **** in Georgia decided to punish her kid for talking back to her. She heated up a pair of scissors on the stove and cut off part of his tongue. She got 10 years of probation, no prison. Now if I went and cut off part of someone's tongue, I'm pretty sure I'd do some time. Why the double standard? Is it ok to cut pieces off of a person if that person is your kid?

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9613151/detail.html?rss=atl&psp=news
how the heck do you find all this stuff?:headbang: :D

Yeah really, was soap really so scarce?

That situation's wrong any way you look at it... makes me sick... :mad:

I guess she was spared prison because "women react differently to prison" (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=494543). :D

But the state's case was hampered when Toby Davis filed court papers refusing to cooperate with the prosecution and asking that charges be dropped. The boy also signed an affidavit saying he did not want his mother prosecuted.

Maybe the father and son want her to get psychiatric help. Granted, I'd lock my own mother up for cutting off a piece of my tongue, but other families might try rehabilitation outside of prison first.

DCD, if someone cut off my tongue, they wouldn't have to worry about going to prison. They would have to worry about the maggots.

First thing I read has to be this thread. :( Fuck, some people are fucking insane.

That will stay with me for some time. Utterly terrible.

Short answer: your sample size is too small.

You can't claim there's a "double standard" based on one case... especially when you're only comparing it to your speculations!! Who the hell knows what was going on in that courtroom?

Short answer: your sample size is too small.

You can't claim there's a "double standard" based on one case... especially when you're only comparing it to your speculations!! Who the hell knows what was going on in that courtroom?
Dude, I've been sent to jail for alot less. I'm positive I'd do time for cutting off part of someone's tongue.

To many people, beating a grown up is assault, but beating their children is "parenting."

Children are simply worth less to these people, who seem to think it's okay to cause them physical pain.

Dude, I've been sent to jail for alot less. I'm positive I'd do time for cutting off part of someone's tongue.So maybe you don't present well in court. :p

Still doesn't prove anything.

to be fair, neither the father nor the son wanted the mother locked up, but I think they are both idiots and I bet the son was pressured by the father to say he didnt want her to go to jail. who knows? maybe the father threatened to cut off a piece of something else. I wonder how big a piece of tongue was cut off :(

this is really sad though and perhaps a good time to actually practice "and eye for an eye" - it's hard to not to want to fuck that bitch up :P

To many people, beating a grown up is assault, but beating their children is "parenting."

Children are simply worth less to these people, who seem to think it's okay to cause them physical pain.


All too true, I'm afraid.

To many people, beating a grown up is assault, but beating their children is "parenting."

Children are simply worth less to these people, who seem to think it's okay to cause them physical pain.
Well, assualt is the same as punishing someone for breathing while spanking is usually punishment for something less horrible than breathing, like, you know, doing something that's actually bad, like yelling at someone for no reason or breaking someone's foot on purpose.

Well, assualt is the same as punishing someone for breathing while spanking is usually punishment for something less horrible than breathing, like, you know, doing something that's actually bad, like yelling at someone for no reason or breaking someone's foot on purpose.

Ah, so it's the child that diminishes its own value as a person, not the idiot that lays his hand on it.

Ah, so it's the child that diminishes its own value as a person, not the idiot that lays his hand on it.


Yeah, it's like the way women "ask" for rape by wearing revealing clothes and being out after dark. :rolleyes:

I wonder that they didn't cut off her fingers for this. :p

Obviously she got a lesser sentence because children have no rights. Duh.

not fit to be a parent, probably has some very serious issues/mental illness.

I guess she was spared prison because "women react differently to prison" (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=494543). :D
*giggle people who think women shouldnt go to prison :sniper: :mp5:

So this **** in Georgia decided to punish her kid for talking back to her. She heated up a pair of scissors on the stove and cut off part of his tongue. She got 10 years of probation, no prison. Now if I went and cut off part of someone's tongue, I'm pretty sure I'd do some time. Why the double standard? Is it ok to cut pieces off of a person if that person is your kid?

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9613151/detail.html?rss=atl&psp=news

I'd hate to think what she would have done if she had caught her kid masturbating! :eek:

I dont hit my kids, but I understand parents that do smack their kid on a clothed rear end. It works for some and I dont see one open handed spank on the ass as abusive.
It cant be done in anger either.

This woman is a sick twisted bitch. She heated scizzors up first?

I'd like to kick her in her ass a few times.

I'd hate to think what she would have done if she had caught her kid masturbating! :eek:

ZOMG! :eek:

I dont hit my kids, but I understand parents that do smack their kid on a clothed rear end. It works for some and I dont see one open handed spank on the ass as abusive.
It cant be done in anger either.

This woman is a sick twisted bitch. She heated scizzors up first?

I'd like to kick her in her ass a few times.

I never really thought of the line between discipline and abuse to be blurred. Obviously, some people come from backgrounds with harsher levels of discipline than others, but I never really had a hard time differentiating between that and abuse.

I never really thought of the line between discipline and abuse to be blurred. Obviously, some people come from backgrounds with harsher levels of discipline than others, but I never really had a hard time differentiating between that and abuse.


There's a difference. Believe me, there's a difference.

There's a difference. Believe me, there's a difference.

That's my point; that the difference between them is easy to spot. The line isn't blurred.

My fault. I wasn't clear. You're right: the line isn't blurred. I think, however, that I fraw the line a little differently than most. To me, physical punishment is all on the same side of the line -- the abuse side. I'm probably being too sensitive about it, but that's how I feel.