Posted on 05/30/2016 9:08:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Hokkaido police said the parents initially told authorities that their son had disappeared while they were picking wild vegetables, but then admitted they made him get out of the car and then left him behind "as discipline." Police said the father returned to the site a few minutes later but the boy was gone.
The parents told police that they were punishing the boy for throwing rocks at people and cars while playing at a river earlier in the day, according to Japanese media.
The boy's father said in an interview with public broadcaster NHK and other TV stations that "I regret what I did to my child." He said he initially did not tell police the truth because he found it embarrassing to ask for a massive search for what happened as a result of the punishment.
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Oh, yeah. Got that one two.
Too, not two. Grr..
The kid was lucky, when I came home from a weekend camping trip with my Cub Scout troop, I found my parents had moved and left no forwarding address........
I certainly didn’t mean to imply any lack of love or devotion of children. However there is a greater inclination to toughen up to kids so they can compete.
My parents were not known to joke about discipline issues. If they told me that I'd have said goodbye to our dog and looked for my baseball mitt to take along.
Just another reason that the Law was fulfilled by the Nazarene and I am now free
That sounds like something muslims would do in Pakistan, or Afghanistan or suadia arabia, or egypt or Iran or Iraq or Syria or Libya....................................
I wish my mother had given me that option, I would have said let’s go!
This sounds much worse than the kid that fell in gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo.
My dad actually stopped the car and gave me and my brothers an ass-whoopin’ right on the side of the road one time - after we’d pushed it too far. Lesson learned.
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