Stranger Slapped Crying Child, Police Say

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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (Sept. 2) - Police say a 61-year-old man annoyed with a crying 2-year-old girl at a suburban Atlanta Walmart slapped the child several times after warning the toddler's mother to keep her quiet.
A police report says after the stranger hit the girl at least four times, he said: "See, I told you I would shut her up."
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Roger Stephens of Stone Mountain is charged with felony cruelty to children. It was unclear if he had an attorney and a telephone call to his home Wednesday was unanswered.
Authorities say the girl and her mother were shopping Monday when the toddler began crying. The police report says Stephens approached the mother and said, "If you don't shut that baby up, I will shut her up for you."
Authorities say Stephens then grabbed the 2-year-old and slapped her. The child began screaming and Stephens was arrested. Police say an examination showed the girl's face was slightly red.
A call to the girl's mother, identified in the police report as Sonya Mathews of Grayson, was answered by a woman who identified herself as Sabrina Mathis, the victim's aunt.
Mathis said Wednesday that the girl is doing fine.
"As of today, she has really forgotten about it," Mathis said. "She's been playing."
Mathis said the girl's mother was shaken up over the incident.
"She's as well as to be expected," Mathis said. "Right now she's just trying to calm down."
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Anyone else ever been tempted to do this?
 
tempted? hell yea.. more like with a rocket launcher. some people can't control their kids or at lest be polite enough to take them outside if they can't quite them within a reasonable amount of time. And I like kids.
 
hell fuck yeah anytime you ride a bus theres some dumbass kid or kids running their mouths or screaming and then you have their parents preending not to hear it or not caring that it annoys everyone else.

the one joy i had in a moment like that was this kid who kept jumping on the seats and the mom kept lazily telling him to sit down but he wouldnt so as luck would have it the bus had to make a quick stop the kid bounced off the seat in front of him and then hit the floor and started crying.
 
Every time i go out to eat there is always someone there with a screaming child. I'd like to go slap the parent personally.
 
yeah id blame the parent......but you can't go around smacking toddlers for crying...........thats insanity.
 
When I'm in Walmart, there's never a shortage of people beating their own kids. But this is the first I've heard of someone beating another person's kid.
 
2 movies I went to this summer had crying/disruptive children in them. Children should be neither seen nor heard. Either hire a fucking babysitter or wait for the dvd.
 
If your kid starts acting up, take them outside until they calm down and if they don't, then leave. Parents today ain't got the stones the last generation did.
 
anyone picture a clint eastwood type of dude that just back hands the shit out of the kid? lol

i hate kids that are disruptive in public. but you can't blame the kids because its the parent's fault for failing to properly teach them how to behave.

as someone said earlier, kids crying at the theatre is the fucking WORST!
 
Yeah, dude, slap the parents. The child is just doing the only thing he knows to do in the situation.

At least he just slapped the child. He obviously wasn't trying to harm the child too much. Just became a bit angry.
 
If it was a K-Mart, the mother would have beat the tar out of the kid and the old man would never have been inconvenienced.
 
[quote name='daphatty']What ever happened to "It takes a communitiy to raise a child"?[/QUOTE]
That is the first thing I thought of. It is sad how people let their children act out nowadays.
 
It's not like they were in a library or movie theater. The dude has serious issues if he can't handle a crying child in a grocery store. All he had to do was move away from the aisle in which the child and mother were shopping. Unless they were in the check-out, in which case he could have sucked it up and had a bit more patience.
 
[quote name='spoo']This wasn't uncommon 25+ years ago, boy have times changed.[/QUOTE]

Not uncommon for a complete stranger to slap a 2 year old? You guys are fucking idiots.
 
Wow..most of you are complete tools. My 19 month old loves to sit in the basket area of the cart but hates the seat and tries to get out, so we buckle her in. Same was the case with my now 3 year old. If a toddler doesn't like something they vocalize. Period. If my kid is upset she has to sit in a basket for 30 minutes while we buy food, im not leaving a cart full of groceries to take her outside so that some asshole doesnt have to listen to her. You were once that annoying kid too. I can understand loud kids in a semi nice restaraunt (chili's/applebee's/etc arent in this category) or in a movie. Parents should excersize some judgement on where they take their kid but fuck you if you think I am gonna get a babysitter for every day routine errand running. If you touch my kid be prepared to go to the hospital.
 
The guy was definately at fault, but the fact of the matter is that people are just poor parents if they dont know how to handle their children. As stated above, if you cant pacify the child, take them outside or something. Ive gotten my ass kicked by my mom and dad all the time when I was younger and am not worse off for it. Sometimes a child needs to be shown some authority. Although at 2 years old I dunno how much the kid understands. Reminds me of that episode of Boondocks when grandpa helps the single mother in the grocery store by whipping his belt out. Classic.
 
[quote name='Malik112099']Wow..most of you are complete tools. My 19 month old loves to sit in the basket area of the cart but hates the seat and tries to get out, so we buckle her in. Same was the case with my now 3 year old. If a toddler doesn't like something they vocalize. Period. If my kid is upset she has to sit in a basket for 30 minutes while we buy food, im not leaving a cart full of groceries to take her outside so that some asshole doesnt have to listen to her. You were once that annoying kid too. I can understand loud kids in a semi nice restaraunt (chili's/applebee's/etc arent in this category) or in a movie. Parents should excersize some judgement on where they take their kid but fuck you if you think I am gonna get a babysitter for every day routine errand running. If you touch my kid be prepared to go to the hospital.[/QUOTE]

^ This. What the hell is wrong with people.
 
tempted many times, but never have done it. the closest i came was one time at a movie there was a crying kid and the parent would not leave the theater, so i yelled out to "take your damn kid outside" after which other people in the theater joined in saying similar things. sure enough they walked out. of course it was dark, they werent sitting right next to me and we never saw eachother.
 
For those of you without kids, sometimes the fastest way to get a young child to be quiet is to ignore the behavior.

That being said, my son once screamed so loud it hurt my nuts. So, I understand why you might somebody's obnoxious noisemaker to leave the area.
 
[quote name='pacifickarma']
Anyone else ever been tempted to do this?[/QUOTE]

Tempted to shop at Walmart? Never.

Seriously though I may have been annoyed by someone elses child but I'd never say anything about it, I'd certainly not think about hitting someone elses kids, that's crazy.

Dude should get the book thrown at him. Just shows you the class of people you get shopping in Walmart.
 
[quote name='shieryda']It's not like they were in a library or movie theater. The dude has serious issues if he can't handle a crying child in a grocery store. All he had to do was move away from the aisle in which the child and mother were shopping. Unless they were in the check-out, in which case he could have sucked it up and had a bit more patience.[/QUOTE]

THIS.

If you are bringing a kid to a theater and the kid cries, you need to take the kid outside. If you are in line in a store, people around just need to act like adults and deal with it. Do I like it when kids cry in my store? Of course not, but sometimes a kid will cry. It happens.

If anyone laid a hand on my nephew I would lay two on them. Trust me I'm probably one of the nicer people on CAG, but I'm I large man and if you fuck with my family I can make it hurt badly for you.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']
If anyone laid a hand on my nephew I would lay two on them. Trust me I'm probably one of the nicer people on CAG, but I'm I large man and if you fuck with my family I can make it hurt badly for you.[/QUOTE]

This also sounds sexy :whistle2:k
 
[quote name='munch']Not uncommon for a complete stranger to slap a 2 year old? You guys are fucking idiots.[/QUOTE]

I didn't read the article and it states that this guy slapped the toddler 4 times on the face, that is way overboard. I was assuming it was a slap on the bottom. I remember when I was preschool I was with a play friend and his mom at the grocery store. We ran off in the store (I'm sure we were being destructive) and the worker slapped our bottoms then returned us to my play friend's mom. No one thought anything of it and I'm sure we behaved for the rest of the day. I was assuming it was something like that.

I would never lay a hand on a child but I have wanted to have a talk with many parents that can't keep control of their offspring.

I have been told before mid-seventies or so that a slap in the face to a child by a non-family member (stranger) was very common around here. I know kids will be kids and they will cry and throw fits but that is no reason for the mom not to do anything about it especially after she was asked to do something. It is rude to everyone around you and if you can't get your child under control then you need to leave to take your child outside or home until things are under control. We all live in this same world, I try to be courteous in public and I expect the same from you and your children.

/29 year old married man that knows how to use birth control.
 
Some of the answers I've seen in here seriously make me ashamed to be a part of this community. What a bunch of unbelievable, immature morons who obviously don't have children or don't deserve the ones they do have.
 
There sure were a lot of CAG's in this thread who thought slapping that kid was AWESOME.

Step away from the controller/keyboard and join us in reality; it's not socially accepted to SMACK other people's kids. It wasn't funny, it wasn't necessary, it was wrong.

That grandpa had some issues smacking a little girl in public. Send him to prison and death row, we don't need dumbass lunatics roaming in our precious Wal Marts.

Parents could beat their kids all they want, because I got my ass whooped every single day and now I'm a fucking champion. Ass whoopings build character when done properly--hitting random kids is not proper.

If you even think about beating some random baby, toddler, kid, etc for essentially living (ie. CRYING), go get your head check because something is fucking wrong with you.
 
What the old guy did was wrong.

But it's depressing to see all of the "I don't give a fuck about mah kids throwing a tantrum in the supermarket, you deal with it and if you look at them funny I'll lay a boot in your ass" comments. Bad parenting is also wrong. As a former neighborhood pool lifeguard, I know you bad parents because you always get 110% defensive and then back down 5% with some BS about how it wasn't a movie or fancy restaurant where you would actually make a half-assed show of disciplining your kid (yeah right)
 
[quote name='mis0']
Parents could beat their kids all they want, because I got my ass whooped every single day and now I'm a fucking champion. [/QUOTE]

Quote of the year.

But yeah, that old guy had no right laying his hands on someone else's child, but the parent should have taken more responsibility for their child.
 
I remember this past winter we didn't go out to eat for three months because every fucking sitdown dinner ended with me taking a forty pound boy out to the car and me standing outside while slowpoke eaters MOC and Caitlyn finished their lovely meals.

"You've ruined IHOP again!"
 
How the fuck does me not telling my kid to shut up bad parenting?! Seriously?! Not changing my kid when his diaper is dirty, bad parenting. Letting my 4 year old steal; bad parenting. Using my kid for prostitution; also bad parenting. Letting my kid cry in a store cuz he's tired, annoyed or bored and I can't do a thing about it; not bad parenting. Just reality. Remember when you were that annoying toddler? Facts of life. If you can't dig it, don't have any kids. You'll be in for a rude awakening.
 
I can't stand crying kids out in public. My parents never tolerated it and I won't tolerate it when my baby comes in January. I think our current generation reeks of bad parenting skills. I, too, got my butt whooped by my parents when I was a child and I turned out just fine. One or two spankings early on will train the child for life. That being said, I don't think it was the old man's job to hit someone else's kid in the Mega-Lo Mart. I'm just saying that if the mother of that child had done her job as a parent, the situation never would've presented itself.
 
[quote name='pacifickarma']I can't stand crying kids out in public. My parents never tolerated it and I won't tolerate it when my baby comes in January. [/QUOTE]

First to lol.
 
Bad parenting to let your kid wail in public? No.

Impolite to the other people around you if you let it continue without at least taking the kid outside if you can't calm them down? Yes.

Wrong for a stranger to slap another stranger's kid? Definitely.
 
[quote name='vasco']How the fuck does me not telling my kid to shut up bad parenting?! Seriously?! Not changing my kid when his diaper is dirty, bad parenting. Letting my 4 year old steal; bad parenting. Using my kid for prostitution; also bad parenting. Letting my kid cry in a store cuz he's tired, annoyed or bored and I can't do a thing about it; not bad parenting. Just reality. Remember when you were that annoying toddler? Facts of life. If you can't dig it, don't have any kids. You'll be in for a rude awakening.[/QUOTE]

I don't think you understand. My parents actually took their role seriously, and didn't take any shit from me. I'm not talking about the Chris Rock "I take care of my kids" parents (great skit btw) - the type who settle for "hey he's not stealing or prostituting, so what do I care" parents. I was one generation away from "children are seen and not heard" so yeah, not quite that disciplined but pretty damn close to it. The only thing my parents really did wrong was forcing me to go to church, I wouldn't repeat that mistake. Everything else was right on, right on.
 
[quote name='camoor']As a former neighborhood pool lifeguard, I don't know a fuckING THING about parenting and should keep my fuckING MOUTH SHUT[/QUOTE]


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[quote name='pacifickarma']I can't stand crying kids out in public. My parents never tolerated it and I won't tolerate it when my baby comes in January. I'm just saying that if the mother of that child had done her job as a parent, the situation never would've presented itself.[/QUOTE]


You are in for a RUDE awakening. You THINK you know what you are going to do with your kid but you don't - turns out you don't know SHIT. Trust me. I was there too. 2 kids later I still wing it sometimes cause you never when and where your kid is gonna throw a curveball at you.

We were at a restaraunt one time and my son got food on his neck and down his shirt so I grabbed a wet wipe and started cleaning off his neck and he yells "Daddy don't choke me!" and my wife and I were like "Where the fuck did that come from!?!??!"

Also, it is generally frowned upon to spank/smack/whatever your own kids in public. No one does it. If they do they are probably shitty parents. So to say the mother should have been the one doing the smacking also shows that you don't have kids or are a shitty parent yourself. There is also nothing to keep someone from calling the cops on you if you choose to spank your kids in public.
 
[quote name='Malik112099']

Also, it is generally frowned upon to spank/smack/whatever your own kids in public. No one does it. If they do they are probably shitty parents. So to say the mother should have been the one doing the smacking also shows that you don't have kids or are a shitty parent yourself. There is also nothing to keep someone from calling the cops on you if you choose to spank your kids in public.[/QUOTE]

Corporal punishment by a parent or family member is legal in all 50 states as far as I know. Frowned upon by some? Yes. Get the cops called on you? Only if you are leaving bruises/beating your child or because of an ignorant citizen that can't distinguish unlawfulness from personal opinions.
 
[quote name='spoo']Corporal punishment by a parent or family member is legal in all 50 states as far as I know. Frowned upon by some? Yes. Get the cops called on you? Only if you are leaving bruises/beating your child or because of an ignorant citizen that can't distinguish unlawfulness from personal opinions.[/QUOTE]


An ignorant citizen is what started this whole thing. A simple spanking to you might seem excessive or unneccessary to someone else which can in turn lead to a phone call to the police. Yes, spanking your child is legal in all 50 states but child abuse is not and an ignorant/snobby/whatever citizen seeing you do that in public can still call and say that they are witnessing child abuse and cops will show up. Spanking your cild in public is just, in general, bad all around.

Some of you are speaking purely on the basic law and that everyone witnessing is of sound mind and judgement and all have the same personal opinions about all the same things. Shit doesn't work that way. Stop being so ignorant.
 
[quote name='pacifickarma']I can't stand crying kids out in public. My parents never tolerated it and I won't tolerate it when my baby comes in January. I think our current generation reeks of bad parenting skills. I, too, got my butt whooped by my parents when I was a child and I turned out just fine. One or two spankings early on will train the child for life. That being said, I don't think it was the old man's job to hit someone else's kid in the Mega-Lo Mart. I'm just saying that if the mother of that child had done her job as a parent, the situation never would've presented itself.[/QUOTE]

You seem to be under the impression a 2 year old is a rational person that can be reasoned with. Bill Cosby has made his living on the subject of kids and their behaviors. Just watch and laugh, then brace yourself because whether you tolerate it or not, you'll go through this. Until you have been around infants or toddlers 24/7 you have no idea what you are getting into and you will have a Jeffrey. I'm just an uncle, but my sister her husband and I share a house and I see my nephew all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGC5ICPxIQQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg6PsBbwErY

[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']First to lol.[/QUOTE]

Second.
 
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