Posted on 10/14/2009 8:54:11 AM PDT by Abathar
A Palm Bay woman and her boyfriend were arrested Monday for child abuse after the couple went old school to punish their 8-year-old daughter for swearing.
They washed her mouth out with soap.
We don't know about you, but we would petition President Obama and Congress to make it mandatory for every parent to carry a bar of Irish Spring in their back pockets with all the profanity kids use today.
Police claim Adriyanna Herdener and Wilfredo Rivera went too far by placing a bar of soap in the girl's mouth and letting it stay for 10 minutes. Herdener did not intervene in the discipline.
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The elitists are enforcing their 1st Commandment -
thou shalt have no authority but us.
That means that parents and especially fathers will have no say in the raising of children.
Ma would put the bar of soap in my mouth.
Dad would follow-up with the belt when he got home.
Then they’d want to know where I learned it. If it was from somebody they knew, they would call his parents.
He was blinded by. . . . . . SOAP POISONING!
Duh.
Your parents must have known my parents.
My sister put soap in her kid’s mouth. She heard the other two giggling. When she turned around the oldest was blowing bubbles around the bar that was still in his mouth.
The children will be informing on their parents for cash and prizes soon.
I’m “dropping off the grid” if that happens.
My mom made me bite a chunk off chew it for while.
Gods, I can still taste that stuff even after all these years...
I always used Vinegar.
“Wow, if they used these guidelines when I was a kid my parents would still not be eligible for parole.”
Mine either...... fear of the known is a good fertizlier for healthy respect
Couple of strokes on the tongue with a fresh bar does wonders. ;-)
Vinegar or hotsauce for “misuse of the tongue”.
"It....was....soap...poisoning!"
Who also knew my parents.
>>The girl eventually vomited and Rivera took her to the local hospital, where hospital staff called police.
Duh.<<
Seriously. I would have looked at her and told her to clean it up.
That’s what my Dear Departed Dad would have done and he was a wise man.
Heck, if they make it retroactive I will never get out of jail!
So long as it wasn’t Lava soap, I don’t have a problem with it.
I learned how to talk back to my parents with a bar of soap in my mouth......
Ralphie: “Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand...YECCH!”
ping
I thing they were on the same committee as mine.
My mom would have accused me of using the vomit to spit it out early and re-applied as necessary.
YUCK!
I don’t ever remember actually eating soap,but my paternal gramndmother (an old country woman from the wilds of WV)did shove a tablespoon of pepper in my mouth for sassin’.That was unpleasant enough! My most outstanding memory of parental punishment was the bear-paw of a hand that my dad had.He sure knew how to use it! And the belt was very effective as well.
#1 Arresting her was stupid.
#2 Dont put frigging soap in your kids mouth. With the chemicals that go into those things today, it is nowhere near the same type of soap some parent in the 50s used.
And to think we are still alive with families of our own and paying taxes... :)
Warning some cursing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIEFTlNYnVw
great tribute video. Ralphie the Gangsta!
Ivory still tastes the same, even after all these years I can tell.
Yep, that’s where they went wrong. So what, the kid vomited. There was no cause for a trip to the hospital. My son vomited every time he didn’t get his way about anything. Mama don’t play that game.
WOW!
Your mom is tough!!!!
I know, my parents used homemade lye soap. Now that will get your attention in a second. Just the suds on a washcloth and stuffed in my mouth was enough.
“Ma would put the bar of soap in my mouth.
Dad would follow-up with the belt when he got home.
Then they’d want to know where I learned it. If it was from somebody they knew, they would call his parents.”
I think we grew up in the same family. The secret with the soap is to drag it across the teeth so it lasts longer. I learned that at age 6. Dad had his belt that he would double and up snap, but mom was actually worse as she would in the heat if the moment grab a wooden spoon or worse yet a hair brush. If she couldn’t catch us then it was “wait until your father gets home”
When we were a little older he would get a phone call and then bring home the “board of education” as he was the High school principal at the time.
My parents made us chew Fels Naptha. Not sure there is anything nastier.
I remember talking back....Telling my mother that Ivory had lye in it and I could die.....
Panty wastes everywhere!...
I got the bar of soap once for cussing and the belt once a month for having “fun”.....
>>#2 Dont put frigging soap in your kids mouth. With the chemicals that go into those things today, it is nowhere near the same type of soap some parent in the 50s used.<<
OH come ON!
Every one of those chemicals is absorbed into your skin.
Unless you’re putting Fels Naptha in there, no kid will be poisoned.
And hellsbells, my Dad DID use Fels Naptha!
My kids hate the vinegar
Don’t get me started on what we survived -
Dirt clod wars, fireworks of every size and power, no helmets with any wheeled device no matter how high the ramp was, bb gun wars, bottle rocket wars, making our own explosives and blowing up yet another model of The Bismark, sledding down hills so steep that if you did hit one of the two trees you were dead, camping in the woods with real knives and matches, campfires so big you had to stand 30’ away from them or you got scorched...
Good grief I could go on all day I think.
>>My parents made us chew Fels Naptha. Not sure there is anything nastier.<<
Mine too.
To this day, I can’t stand the smell of it.
But it really does work on Poison Ivy.
This article is a flimsy shadow of the whole story. These “parents” (actually mom and mom’s latest “boyfriend”)belong in prison.
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/brevard_news/101309_Couple_who_forced_child_to_eat_soap_free
“the mother’s boyfriend, Wilfredo Rivera, made her chew on soap for ten minutes, while the child’s mother, Adriyanna Herdener, watched. . . . Investigators say the child was crying, vomiting and foaming at the mouth. According to police, the boyfriend wouldn’t let the girl rinse out her mouth until she cleaned up her mess. Reports state the child’s lips, throat and tongue became swollen and was in pain. That’s when the mom asked her boyfriend to take the 8 year old to the hospital. . . . Police say Herdener didn’t go to the hospital because, she didn’t want to deal with the Department of Children and Families. But when DCF was called to the hospital, they say Rivera left with the child even before she was treated. Both were later arrested at her home. According to the DCF, the couple has a lengthy history of complaints.”
There's not a snowball's chance in hell this girl said any "bad word" that she hadn't previously heard coming from the mouths of mom and mom's boyfriend.
I didn’t know my Dad had a brother. (see #38)
Once I tied footholds in my dads 80 foot long rope and climbed down to the ground from the second floor. When he found the rope later, I could hear him yelling from my friends house across the street.....
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