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Woman Arrested for Whipping Great-GrandDaughter With Switch
ABC7Chicago.com ^ | June 30, 2016 | ABC7 Staff

Posted on 06/30/2016 10:43:43 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard

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To: Ketill Frostbeard

Boy, if this was the mentality back in the day my grandma and father would be doing life without parole. Grandma used a switch, dad preferred the belt.


21 posted on 06/30/2016 11:15:18 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: freedomlover

Psyops, southern style.
Same here. Only we had an apple tree. The warning was, “Would you like some apple tea?”


22 posted on 06/30/2016 11:15:48 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Way back in the day, maybe 1968 or so, I remember hearing in school that our parents could not spank us, or they could go to jail. (looks like the indoctrination was going on even then)

One day, I decided to put this new information to use. I can not recall what I had done, nor do I recall if my mom took the belt to me or just threatened me, but the conversation went something like this:

Me:

“I will tell my counselor and they will put you in jail”

Mom:

“You go right ahead honey” (then she raises that right eyebrow like only mothers can do and stares directly into my eyes and continues) “but you better PRAY they never let me out, it will be much worse for you then.”

LOL! I am thankful every day for her.


23 posted on 06/30/2016 11:16:48 AM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: stormer

I’m 65 years old and to this day my momma will tell me “boy, don’t think you’re too old for a switching.”

My reply is always the same: “yes momma, I’m sorry.”
Because I know if she thinks the situation warrants it she WILL get a switch and wear it out on my backside.
Momma don’t play at all.


24 posted on 06/30/2016 11:17:56 AM PDT by oldvirginian (If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke, fix it right.)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

Grandma, should get a restraining order on the child and have no contact with her. No birthday gifts, no watching her, ect. Let the girl’s parents deal with her, and let her find out that Grandma doesn’t have to be there. Might be good for the other grandchildren to see that there are consequences for their actions.


25 posted on 06/30/2016 11:19:28 AM PDT by 20yearvet (they yell for more tests as long as its your money)
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To: stormer
"Hitting someone with an object hard enough to leave welts is just plain wrong, especially a 12 year-old.

Garbage. A red stripe from a peach switch..so what? Bruises are another matter. The problem is the idea being sold that ANY physical punishment is criminally prosecutable, including a palm of the hand vigorously applied to the ass (bare or clothed) of the misbehaving party.

Watch any mother animal discipline her offspring. The female of any species WILL apply physical discipline to her progeny, and not gentle discipline, either. Yet she will, by the same rules, give her own life to defend those same progeny.

I watched two sisters-in-law raise their kids. One didn't believe in physical chastisement....only mental. The other applied the old hand-palm as indicated. The children of the first were (and still are) huge discipline problems, though fortunately never to the point of criminality. The children of the second are successful, well-mannered adults.

26 posted on 06/30/2016 11:19:54 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

Just my Mother`s words “ Go Get a switch! Now!” would strike terror into all of us kids and boy did we straighten out fast, not to mention nuns with rulers and bloodied knuckles therefrom...Nuns with rulers and class bullies was always fun to watch, better than tv. Do they put nuns in jail now?


27 posted on 06/30/2016 11:22:36 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

Yeah, but it was a Cisco 4500 series.


28 posted on 06/30/2016 11:22:58 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

I never deserved any of the switchen’s I got from any of those mean old ladies in my life. :p

My mother never used switches. It was whatever was handy. Hair brushes, extension cords, wire hangers and when I made the mistake of telling her it didn’t hurt, she used the skillet instead.


29 posted on 06/30/2016 11:23:44 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: yuleeyahoo

I remember my mom using a wooden spoon on my older brother. He made the mistake of laughing when the old spoon broke in half. He wasn’t laughing when pop got home.


30 posted on 06/30/2016 11:26:46 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard
WHAAAAAT?????????


31 posted on 06/30/2016 11:27:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

a great grandmother at age 70?....doesn’t that sound very young to be a “great” grandmother especially with the great granddtr being 12?


32 posted on 06/30/2016 11:31:35 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Boogieman
Yep, law has the discretion to prosecute in these situations, just as Obama has the right to ignore the law when it comes to illegals.
33 posted on 06/30/2016 11:34:46 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: stormer

So you have a child at 15yrs 4mos, the child has your grandchild at 15yrs 4mos, the grand child has your great-grandchild at 15yrs 4mos, and 12 years later you have a 12 year old great grandchild at the age of 58. They don’t waste time. In another 3 yrs 4mos she may be a great-great-grandmother at age 61.


34 posted on 06/30/2016 11:38:55 AM PDT by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: maro
Not the fault of the cops. The problem is with the legal system they serve. I hope the prosector doesn’t press charges.

How do you figure it wasn't the cop's fault. They are the ones that arrested her, and it apparently took four of them to do it.

35 posted on 06/30/2016 11:39:47 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard

Isn’t Hot Springs where Billy Jeff grew up?


36 posted on 06/30/2016 11:40:16 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: getitright

oops. she is 70 now. so that’s all having kids at 19.


37 posted on 06/30/2016 11:40:35 AM PDT by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: Ketill Frostbeard
That is how it has always been done in Arkansas, from what I have heard.

This guy I worked with told me his grandmother would send him out to find her a switch, and he would bring one back, and she would say, no I need a bigger one than that. So off he would go again, until he brought back one she was satisfied with. Then she would make him strip it of its leaves. Then he would get what was coming to him. He grew up to be an outstanding man.

Yes, his grandmother was also black like this grandmother.

38 posted on 06/30/2016 11:43:13 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: rockrr

The wooden spoon!!!! My mom would just make a lot of noise rummaging through the utensil drawer. It was our cue to scatter!!!


39 posted on 06/30/2016 11:43:29 AM PDT by karatemom
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To: zeugma; maro

The cops were probably mandated to make the arrest since it was a domestic situation and there was injury involved. The prosecutor, however, could have declined to prosecute. As for four cops showing up, it was probably a slow day and an assault call came over. So they just took a ride over there.


40 posted on 06/30/2016 11:45:21 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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