Mother Stages fake Arrest of Son Aged FIVE...
Outcry as U.S. Mother Stages fake Arrest of Son Aged FIVE...
Because He Played With Matches
Cruel: Deputies bend down to speak to the handcuffed five-year-old boy
in a mock arrest staged by his mother to scare him in to good behaviour
'If more parents did what I did, we wouldn't have the crime we have now':
The unnamed mother defends herself on U.S. TV
Appalled neighbours looked on, unaware the whole thing was a stunt, as officers handcuffed the crying child - who was barely tall enough to reach the wheel of their patrol car - and put him on the back seat.
They threatened him by saying: 'You want to go to jail?' over and over again before finally releasing him back to his mother.
The incident took place outside the 7-Eleven convenience store in Florida where the unnamed mother works.
It later emerged the mother was friends with the deputy sheriff who slapped the cuffs on her child.
An outraged witness, not realising that the arrest was staged, snapped a photograph on her mobile phone.
Critics have claimed that the mother's actions were wrong and that the boy was too young to be given such a punishment.
But the unnamed mother in her 20s, from Lehigh Acres in Florida, was unrepentant.
A TV reporter asked her 'Do you feel that may have been over the top?''No, absolutely not,' she said.
'If more parents did what I did, we wouldn't have the crime we have now.
'I hope it scared him to not play with matches or lighters again. That was the whole point of it, it was to make him afraid he was going to jail.'
Witnesses disagreed, with one neighbour bursting into tears as she recounted the incident.
'That's not a way to treat a child, that's not a way to teach a lesson to a little boy,' said the woman, in her 30s, said.
Child psychologist Omar Reiche told ABC News: 'No matter what the details are, when you see that picture it says so much.
'The age at which this is being done is inappropriate. This is misguided.'
But local residents threw their support behind the mother on internet message boards.
One who called herself Kim wrote on one local paper's website: 'We have gotten too soft on our children and wonder why we have all the problems with crime. Good for that mom!
'Hopefully this will teach her son a valuable lesson.. at least we are not reading about him burning his house down.'
Another reader, Renee, added: 'I think this is a wonderful way to teach a child. Anyone who thinks this is cruel has either never had children or have kids I would not want to meet.'
Juanita posted on another website: 'I stand by the mother. Wasn't it just 4 to 6 years ago that many residents in Lehigh lost their homes to fires caused by arson??
'This happens every dry season, some kid playing with fire ends up burning acres of land.'An editorial in a local newspaper said: 'We sympathize with the frustration many parents and others feel about out-of-control children, and about the perceived limits on parents' freedom to discipline.
'Further, we do not know how far this child's misbehaviour with the matches had gone.'That said, handcuffing a five-year-old in a mock arrest is extreme. Parents need other tactics to use before involving law enforcement.'
Source:ISO
So? Do you think the mother's way of Disciplining her son is Good? Or what?
as drmana said, i feel sorry for the kids who have parents who think threatening them is the right away to sorting them out.
Fear is not the way to discipline children.....trying to make them understand the results of their action should be the approach not threatening them.
yv2r, lots of blind love and pampering create more criminals than a quick but definitive small punishment. It's not the punishment which makes the child deliquent, but it's the incosistency and lack of logical implementation. Eg if a father comes back home drunk and beats up the child black and blue for not tidying up his room while on other days father would just laugh it away when mother complaints about his untidiness. Tha's what will make him rebel.
After handcuffs,if the child is a sensitive kind to accept the mistake he will not repeat,if the child is arrogant it will turn him to be more agressive and may develop hatredness and revengefull will definitely become a Juvenile Deliquent and criminal when he is an adult as per the Criminal Psychology.
Mothers have patience,you can gain every thing by little love and importance to the kids,if you neglect and you are in your own world this will be the result and mom you are making your child a criminal.
Reasoning and abstract thinking comes only after the age of 11. Before that, the only thing child understands is immediate cause and effect logic. It is important to discipline a child before age of 11 because after that they are less influenced by parents and more influenced by friends.
Disciplining by fear....not my way.
Since I WAS a good boy...
My parents didnt need to Discipline me..
yet the goodboy me died when I stepped on college and that's when they started trying to discipline me. telling me how I've changed a lot.
But.. none of them work..
nice tactic
USA is a free society where anyone can do anything thats where problems come if there are rules in the society then there will not be much crimes and problems
i m with this lady she has done a right thing
LOL Fs! My mom used to do the same thing! And once she had her friends that was a cop come and talk to me and say he was going to take me to the station! LOL. I have to say, it didn't work as well as when I was a teenager, but it worked when I was a kid!
Luckily my mother used to just slap me till she could see her full palm print on my cheek :o)
When my son was smaller...I used to make fake calls to police station when he does such things...until he found out that I am not calling 999..lol maybe it will work one time...
In some point that's true WK and not to mention the trauma from the experience.
I think it's a bit over the top for the "gravity" of the crime. However my parents did do a similar thing to me as a teenager when I got caught drinking underage, and I have to say that didn't work.
The kid will be too embarrassed to go out of his home now
Not Good....
In some comments over the net..Lot's of mothers in their agreed with what the mother of the boy did..
the way she "disciplined" her child may not have the same effect on other children if they were to follow her example.. some children may be affected positively, while some tend to be more rebellious if disciplined like this..
Mother's action is absolutely justified and responsible.
Nope, way over the top.