Torture For Tantrums

by digby

Yesterday, I wrote about the taser incident in which a police officer tasered a 10 year old girl. There are more details today:

An Ozark police officer used a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl Thursday, an action the child’s father has publicly spoken against.

Officer Dustin Bradshaw used a stun gun to subdue the girl, whose mother had called police in response to her daughter misbehaving at the woman’s residence, according to an Ozark police report.

Bradshaw stated in the report that when he arrived at the scene, he found the girl “balled up in the floor crying and screaming (sic),” according to the report.

“I made several attempts to speak with her and she continued to behave in this manner,” Bradshaw stated.

Bradshaw said the child’s mother attempted to place the girl in the shower to get her ready for bed.

“I witnessed (the child) screaming, kicking and resisting every time her mother tried to touch her,” Bradshaw stated. “Her mother told me to Tase her if I needed to.”

Bradshaw said he and the mother carried the child to the shower, but the child refused to cooperate.

Bradshaw said after realizing there would not be a “peaceful resolution,” he moved the child to the living room and told her he was going to place her under arrest, according to the report.

“She was jerking her arms away from me violently while I was trying to cuff her and thrashing about wildly,” Bradshaw stated. “While she was violently kicking and verbally combative, (she) struck me with her legs and feet in the groin.”

Bradshaw said because he had difficulty placing handcuffs on the girl, he administered a brief drive stun to the child’s back with his stun gun, the report states.

“She immediately stopped resisting and was placed into handcuffs,” Bradshaw stated. “She would not walk on her own and I had to carry her to my police car.”

Well, why didn’t they say so? The little girl was having a tantrum and got even more upset when her mother and a strange man in a uniform tried to carry her into the shower. She’s lucky she wasn’t pistol whipped.

This is a new parenting technique I think every mom should try. But you needn’t call the police when your kid refuses to bathe or clean up her room or has a tantrum. Just stick her finger in an electrical outlet for a few seconds and she’ll turn right around. After all,it’s not like it hurts them or anything:

The girl, who hasn’t been identified, wasn’t hurt and is now at the Western Arkansas Youth Shelter in Cecil.

I am very much against tasering, but I honestly believe that any mother who tells a policeman to taser her child should be tasered first, just so she knows what she’s asking them to do. And if she then says it’s ok to do that to her own child, the child should be removed from her custody immediately.

Electricity shooting through the human body is excessively painful, which is why people fall to the ground screaming in agony when it happens. People who purposefully do that to children for any reason are sadistic and abusive. It’s torture.

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