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Woman accused of punching her children (Mother says it is "the Dominican way.")
Salem (MA) News ^ | May 1, 2007 | Jim Patten

Posted on 05/01/2007 7:39:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

LAWRENCE - Police arrested a Methuen woman for punching her 12-year-old daughter several times in the face while they were inside a Laundromat on Broadway.

Police were called to the facility Sunday afternoon by another woman who told police "no child deserved to be beaten like that," the police report said.

(Excerpt) Read more at salemnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abuse; childabuse; dominican; mother Comment #1 Removed by Moderator

To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Paredes-Morales told police her daughter forgot something at home, that “this was the way Dominican people discipline their children,” and she had done nothing wrong by striking her, the report said.

I hope she has the biggest nastiest cell mates who know just why she is there & treat her accordingly. If this is the way these people treat their children why would they EVEN think of returning them to any member of that family? Prayers for these children..~Pandora~

2 posted on 05/01/2007 7:44:35 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Welcome to the third world, coming this way all across the U.S.


3 posted on 05/01/2007 7:45:47 PM PDT by xJones
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Welcome to the third world, coming this way all across the U.S.


4 posted on 05/01/2007 7:45:52 PM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones

Damn hiccops.


5 posted on 05/01/2007 7:46:25 PM PDT by xJones
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

“Paredes-Morales was charged with assault and battery, assault on a household member, assault and battery on a child under 14 causing bodily injury, being a parent or guardian permitting assault and battery on a child under 14.”

Welcome to America.


6 posted on 05/01/2007 7:47:35 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: pandoraou812

Amen, hope she gets in with whatever the female equivalent of Bubba and his armed robber pals are.


7 posted on 05/01/2007 7:47:40 PM PDT by oakcon (America wants you: Run Fred Run!)
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To: xJones

Yep...and hiccup all you like. Truth needs repeating.


8 posted on 05/01/2007 7:48:43 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: oakcon
Amen, hope she gets in with whatever the female equivalent of Bubba and his armed robber pals are.

When was Rosie arrested?

9 posted on 05/01/2007 7:51:49 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: Centurion2000
Which NFL team drafted that dude anyways?

now that was not very nice of me at all ...
10 posted on 05/01/2007 7:56:01 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 1 John 4:15, John 11:25, John 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan; Lijahsbubbe

Is there a husband in the picture? This woman looks like a good match for Alec Baldwin.


11 posted on 05/01/2007 7:59:37 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: Thinkin' Gal

I thought of his whereabouts, as well. I don’t recall a mention in the article.


12 posted on 05/01/2007 8:01:17 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: F15Eagle
Which NFL team drafted that dude anyways?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say .... none ? She looks like she could do the 100 yard sprint .... in about a minute.

13 posted on 05/01/2007 8:07:43 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Killing all of your enemies without mercy is the only sure way of sleeping soundly at night.)
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To: Centurion2000

yes but could be the whole offensive line ... with an emphasis on the “offensive”


14 posted on 05/01/2007 8:11:10 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 1 John 4:15, John 11:25, John 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Your post in the first response has been removed because, as you mentioned, payment is required.

Please do not post paid subscription only material.


15 posted on 05/01/2007 8:11:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: pandoraou812
At least the woman didn't call her kid a "thoughtless little pig."


17 posted on 05/01/2007 8:43:15 PM PDT by familyop (former cbt. engr. (cbt.))
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To: Thinkin' Gal
It's the Dominican way..

Hey, that's the same thing I told my kids!

18 posted on 05/01/2007 11:25:22 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (Ah don't feeeeel no ways taihrd.)
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To: John Williams
But what goes around, comes around. She keeps this up, or hauls off and hit the wrong somebody, she’s gonna be in for a world of hurt..

I try not to wish anyone to be hurt but I can only imagine how these children must have been treated since they were babies. I don't think any family member ought to get them if thats how they raise their children. And God forgive me but I do hope somebody beats the living cr@p out of her for sure.

19 posted on 05/02/2007 4:53:17 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812

“Woman accused of punching her children (Mother says it is “the Dominican way.”)”

That’s NUTHIN’....try the Jesuits.


20 posted on 05/02/2007 9:06:30 AM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: JB in Whitefish

That’s NUTHIN’....try the Jesuits

If they or any person has to punch a child then I hope they get punched or worse. Children don’t need to be punched by their parents. Its a child! Shaking my head again...no wonder the world is so messed up....


21 posted on 05/02/2007 9:12:45 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812

It was just a little play on the word, “Dominican” as in Dominican MONKS....the Jesuits have LONG been known for their strict rules of engagement and physical punishment of errant students.

[i.e. it was a JOKE only Catholics would get, evidently]


22 posted on 05/02/2007 9:29:58 AM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: JB in Whitefish

ohhhhhhh....Well I am Catholic but I didn’t know about the Jesuits . My brother would have as he was taught by them in TX as a teenager. My mother used to make us kneel on rice when I was a child. Try that for an hour. It hurts like hell. I guess thats why I can’t stand child abuse, I lived through it. Plus the verbal abuse. ~Pandora~


23 posted on 05/02/2007 10:41:22 AM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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I"ll send someone to push her around a little bit and see how she likes it:

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24 posted on 05/02/2007 10:50:05 AM PDT by Fawn (Achmed the Dead Terrorist--> http://youtube.com/watch?v=2QXQFTEBqNE)
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To: pandoraou812

There’s rumors about the Jesuits having helped the Nazis in WWII....could NOT have happened....!!!

[The Nazis are MUCH nicer than the Jesuits.]


25 posted on 05/02/2007 12:18:04 PM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: pandoraou812

Nice respect for your mother there, does she know you consider her a child abuser?


26 posted on 05/02/2007 12:26:57 PM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: xJones
Welcome to the third world, coming this way all across the U.S.

And soon she can prosecute police according to the Jackson-Lee Hate Crimes Bill.

27 posted on 05/02/2007 12:28:17 PM PDT by montag813
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To: xJones
Welcome to the third world, coming this way all across the U.S.

And soon she can prosecute the woman who called police, according to the Jackson-Lee Hate Crimes Bill.

28 posted on 05/02/2007 12:28:39 PM PDT by montag813
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To: American_Centurion

Yes my mother knew fully well what she did ..I loved my mother but I sure didn’t agree with how she abused my sister, brother & myself. Most of all I didn’t understand how she let my father abuse us too if you must know. Why should I respect her for the abuse she and my father gave us? I guess children have no reason to be angry when they are abused??? Respect is earned and if you hurt a child then you don’t get my respect. ~Pandora~


29 posted on 05/02/2007 1:09:23 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: TigersEye

ping


30 posted on 05/02/2007 1:12:30 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: JB in Whitefish

I really don’t know that much about them. I know my brother was sent to a school in San Francisco when he ran away from home for about a year. Child abuse is a sore topic for me...Now I am being told I have no respect for my mother because of the rice kneeling post...Go figure...~P~


31 posted on 05/02/2007 1:17:15 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812

Well, I never thought I deserved my punishments either, but I would never banter on making my parents out to be child abusers for the whole world to see because of it. You don’t have respect for your mother you said so here “Respect is earned and if you hurt a child then you don’t get my respect”, so don’t respond to another poster like I accused you falsely.

I was merely trying to remind you of the appalling disrespect you posted toward the mother you say you loved. You shouldn’t besmirch someone you love. Kneeling on rice is not enough of a reason to publicly proclaim you were an abused child. It would have been much more reasonable for you to simply proclaim yourself to be simply disgusted by child abuse, than to drag your parents into the muck to justify your outrage. My 2 cents.


32 posted on 05/02/2007 1:35:35 PM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: American_Centurion

I sent you mail explaining the abuse since I don’t want to do it publicly as you pointed out. Then you can decide if I was abused or not. ~P~


33 posted on 05/02/2007 2:06:54 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812

An HOUR is a VERY long time to endure constant pain. I’m surprised you made it that long.....or either were such a ROTTEN child that you “deserved” it in someone’s mind.

My parents were BOTH very strict....but, my Father was just plain ABUSIVE....to all of us.

There IS a “difference” and the HE** with anyone who tells you differently.

In my father’s case....a violent alcoholic....it was the MENTAL abuse that far outweighed any physical trauma.


34 posted on 05/02/2007 4:33:28 PM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: American_Centurion

“You shouldn’t besmirch someone you love. “

This is just the sort of numbskull “advise” that ENABLES those with abusive tendencies..!!!

There is much, much MORE to one’s experience than just the physical pain involved or not.

What “you” may handle is never to be considered to be “equal” to that of a different background and setting. Some “punishers” NEVER let up and will literally go on for YEARS over seemingly insignificant occurrences.

And, you CAN “love” someone and DESPISE them at the same time. It’s coming to grips with the decision which either dooms you to be their personal punching bag or allows you to strike out on your own and not look back.

I tried for YEARS to make peace with my Father. It just simply was NOT in the cards...because HE wouldn’t accept any “help” offered.....no matter by whom. It was the bottle and boozy “apologies” which ruled the day...not common sense, a conscience, or love directed at his children.

Finally, I just HAD TO “let him go”...for my own sake. There comes a time when you really HAVE expended all the avenues of approach and if the person who truly NEEDS the help and love won’t accept it...you’re just a mssochist for allowing them to go on, cast rigidly in the same role, over and over and over again.

Did I really “love” my Father...???

You bet..once upon a time.

The best I could do later in life was not actively HATING him, but realizing he was a VERY sick man in more ways than one.

So, don’t go “piling on” when it comes to criticizing another for their apparent short comings in YOUR eyes.

Tidy up your OWN space and call it a day.


35 posted on 05/02/2007 4:41:12 PM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: pandoraou812

Don’t feel as if you have to “defend” your statements if they are TRUE.

I KNOW what it’s like to endure treachery on the part of a loved one and have “everyone” around you tell you that you are “wrong” and he/she could not POSSIBLY have done the things you describe nor could they have ANY impact on you.

My Father was big on HUMILIATION. It cuts deeper than a belt or fists EVER could...although they, TOO, can be “effective”.


36 posted on 05/02/2007 4:44:27 PM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: JB in Whitefish

Regarding one’s mother and father, that “numbskull advise” was given to us by our Father in Heaven. Honoring and forgiving are our jobs, vengeance is the Lord’s.

I’m pretty sure that Pandora and I have things pretty clear. You, on the other hand, have a few issues to resolve.


37 posted on 05/02/2007 4:52:49 PM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: Thinkin' Gal
Is there a husband in the picture? This woman looks like a good match for Alec Baldwin.

How about David Hasselhoff?

38 posted on 05/02/2007 5:45:12 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (Ah don't feeeeel no ways taihrd.)
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To: pandoraou812

Pay no attention to idiots.


39 posted on 05/02/2007 5:57:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (For Democrats; victory in Iraq is not an option.)
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To: JB in Whitefish

Thanks, I think the verbal & mental abuse is way worse. Bruises can fade but the words seem to stay with you forever. ~Pandora~


40 posted on 05/02/2007 6:02:38 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: American_Centurion

“You, on the other hand, have a few issues to resolve.”

NAME them, o Holy One...???


41 posted on 05/02/2007 6:59:48 PM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: JB in Whitefish

I don’t know what your issues are exactly. But to criticize my advice with your sarcasm is one. If you do not want to follow the advice of the Lord, He has given you the free will not to. All I’m saying is it worked for me.

You CAN forgive unconditionally, but you have to lay all the old feelings down for the Lord to take up. You have to want to. If you believe, as I do, that God gives the strength to those who believe in Him, you can and will find the way to forgive no matter what.

I am NOT Holy, I am doing nothing but trying to follow my Lord and help others. Sorry if my post was too pointed, but I think that Pandora understood what I was getting at.


42 posted on 05/03/2007 6:25:24 AM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: American_Centurion

“I don’t know what your issues are exactly.”

So, then perhaps you might want to actually READ the item that comes up when you post....to wit:

“NO personal attacks”

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Now, I know you are an authority on Divine Intervention...but, did YOU see that part in the Bible about “casting stones”....???

I didn’t THINK so.

It’s one thing to question the validity of your “advice” which proves to be an ignorant viewpoint.

It’s quite another to attempt to cram your phony religiosity down my throat, not knowing or caring what I may have experienced.

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“If you believe, as I do, that God gives the strength to those who believe in Him, you can and will find the way to forgive no matter what.”

Really....????

Hmm....then you won’t have any problem getting OFF my a**...before I report your abusive proselytizing....???


43 posted on 05/03/2007 6:56:40 AM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: JB in Whitefish

You are free to report anything you wish.

My personal advice to Pandora was only helpful, and saying that you had issues, isn’t a personal attack, I apologize for not being more clear.

Of course you should realize you are also proselytizing your view that my belief is ignorant, but I am in no way offended by that. I do care what you’ve experienced. And I’ll remind you that there have been many, many others who have experienced the same or worse, yet have found a way to find peace with it all.


44 posted on 05/03/2007 8:18:17 AM PDT by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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