5-Year-Old Cuffed, Arrested

[ELKCHSR]

While on one hand, I don't believe we should be sending this young of a person to jail, it does bring up a good point that after reading the whole article, I think it should of been the mother that went. The very last statement says it all. It is more than likely her that has created this little monster.

5-Year-Old Cuffed, Arrested in Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A 5-year-old girl was arrested, cuffed and put in back of a police cruiser after an outburst at school where she threw books and boxes, kicked a teacher in the shins, smashed a candy dish, hit an assistant principal in the stomach and drew on the walls.

The students were counting jelly beans as part of a math exercise at Fairmount Park Elementary School when the little girl began acting silly. That's when her teacher took away her jelly beans, outraging the child.

Minutes later, the 40-pound girl was in the back of a police cruiser, under arrest for battery. Her hands were bound with plastic ties, her ankles in handcuffs.

"I don't want to go to jail," she said moments after her arrest Monday.

No charges were filed and the girl went home with her mother.

While police say their actions were proper, school officials were not pleased with the outcome.

"We never want to have 5-year-old children arrested," said Michael Bessette, the district's Area III superintendent.

The district's campus police should have been called to help and not local police, he said.

Bessette said campus police routinely deal with children and are trained to calm them in such situations.

Under the district's code of student conduct, students are to be suspended for 10 days and recommended for expulsion for unprovoked attacks, even if they don't result in serious injury. But district spokesman Ron Stone said that rule wouldn't apply to kindergartners.

"She's been appropriately disciplined under the circumstances," he said.

The girl's mother, Inda Akins, said she is consulting an attorney.

"She's never going back to that school," Akins said. "They set my baby up."

 

[Hunterman]

Yep I agree :MAD With the statement that the mother said,,,she (the mother) needs to be smacked back to reality :MAD There is probly nothing that little girl needs more than a good butt wipping |oo

I hope the school sends the mother a bill for damages her little darling did :BLEEP:

Hunterman(Tony)

 

[Whiskers]

Its a difficult situation. Obviously the parents are to blame for letting her be so out of control. What do the officials do, call the parent would seem to be the obvious answer. But what if the parents are unavailable? How do you subdue a child thats out of control (thats not yours) without opening yourself up to all kind of liability. I think its insane for the police to put the child in cuffs and plastic ties. Maybe the parents are the ones that should be in cuffs. I don't have to deal with other peoples kids, so I don't know what should have been done.

 

[JohnSWA]

It's a damn shame that corporal(sp) punishment isn't allowed in schools. If momma won't spank her child, then she should feel the sting of a paddle from the teacher! "Spare the rod, spoil the child". Does anyone remember that quote?

 

[danr55]

The little girl should have been knocked on her little butt and the older moma should have had her older butt kicked. There is not excuse for children who get out of line to that extreme, and no excuse for any parent permitting it.

 

[Mojave]

When I was a teacher's assistant several years ago I had a third grader go ballistic on me. He tore out some of my hair and ripped my shirt. The only way I could finally contain the kid was to pick him up from behind, crossing his arms across his chest like a straight jacket, and physically carry his little butt to the principal's office. As far as I recall, the trip to the principal's office was his only punishment. If I would have a kid who would act like that towards an adult, they would be in military school by the end of the semester!

 

[Gunner46]

I'm ashamed to see the school, from my former home town, NOT support the police. This BRAT needs her back side strapped (and probably often), so does her BRAT mother!!

 

[Orca Lover]

Seriously, do people just not punsih their kids anymore? Parents are too affraid of "hurting their psyche" to smack the little brats when they step out of line!!!

OL

 

[Quiet_One]

Well reason anymore why parents wont and prob cant depending on child an dlaw at some points is becouse kid call child abuse and parents in trouble i think needs go back way it was sapnkem good not leave bruises, or marks just redness thats legal , but anymore ids have control why alot go balistci or kill thier parents or whoever in this cse kid neds spanking yes and mother needs slapi n face, parents who let em get by wit lots chit like that need to go to counciling both or send brat to military school i agree

 

[ELKCHSR]

We need to pull the pandering liberal feely touchy do gooders that have created this environment in the first place out of the line next time we see them catering to children the way they do an knock some sense into them.
Most if not all of them have no children but have done "studies" on the little people, so assume they know best...

 

[Hunterman]

These people can do all the studies they like, but it still don't teach a kid right from wrong...I have always said " To raise a child,,you have to know more than the child". hump

If there is one thing that drives me nuts is when I'm in a store, and here is this child throwing a fit in the shopping cart, and mommy tells the " If you don't stop when we get home, you'll have to go to time-out" :MAD At times I would like to snatch the little darling out of that cart and really teach them why you don't throw fits in the stores :MAD

Hunterman(Tony)

 

[Nut]

Well Tony, you would not have liked to be around Vipe and I when the 2 youngest was in diapers. However we handled the situation the best we could. Spankings in public met with much distain and could get a person arrested for child abuse or have Children Services called on them. Not saying the boys did not get a spanking once we got outside. However sometimes the problem was just a wet diaper involving a rash. |oo

The thing we did that eventually ended the tantrums was we never once gave in to them. To me this is what sounds like what the mother does to the little brat in the story. I have seen too many times where a parent gives into the child just to stop the tantrum. I also have seen what the child is like as a adult and it still is not pretty. :BLEEP:

The child should be expelled from school and put in counseling along with the mother. A little time in a juvenile detention facilty could also do some good.

The school system should not cave in to the lawsuit but it probably will.

 

[Elkhunter]

These people can do all the studies they like, but it still don't teach a kid right from wrong...I have always said " To raise a child,,you have to know more than the child". hump

If there is one thing that drives me nuts is when I'm in a store, and here is this child throwing a fit in the shopping cart, and mommy tells the " If you don't stop when we get home, you'll have to go to time-out" :MAD At times I would like to snatch the little darling out of that cart and really teach them why you don't throw fits in the stores :MAD

Hunterman(Tony)

Sounds like you Tony.

I think the right thing was done. Maybe the other parents will now get the message to take care of their children.

 

[Whiskers]

The first thing we have to do is get the GOVERNMENT out of the raising of our children, and other aspects...TERI SCHIAVO for example.

 

[ELKCHSR]

I see this problem stems from to many people graduating collage with degrees in "Child Welfare" of some sort or another, not having children or being around them themselves, and then being handed enough power to dictate to others that have to deal with these little jewels day in and day out. Some times they need a little uuuuhhh...... persuasion into the proper course of action.
We as the adults have to let them know we are Bigger, Better, Stronger, Faster, and Smarter, and there is not a thing they can do to prove us wrong.
There are to many people that cave into the mentality that the kids know best, that is just plain hogwash.
We can't be a kids friend either (have any of you ever noticed how they treat their friends?), we have to be a mentor until they actually learn that toilet paper costs money (and that is a metaphor for some thing more than the actual cost of toilet paper for those that may not understand .

 

[Mojave]

Nut has it dead to rights. It's not about whether you put them in a corner or smack the snot out of them. Both work, both fail. The key is consistancy. The problem is not that today's parents are too liberal with their kids, but that they are too lazy to follow up with their threats. I constantly hear from parents "the next time you do that Billy, you are going to get it". Billy of course invariably does it, and the parent stares blindly into space and says "stop it Billy, I told you" then rolls their eyes. Not only is that bad parenting and poor discipline, you have just lied to your children. Why should they believe anything you say?

Next time anyone says that putting kids in a time out is ruining them, spend a day with my kids. I may not have the prettiest or the smartest or the most talented kids in the world, but when I ask them to do something for me, they do it...and with a smile. They know I don't lie to them.

 

[WH's OutdoorsChick]

You know Afer reading this I am thinking putting the BRAT in handcuffs was not such a bad idea.... I also agree that the parent should be charged for all damages and when a Child is THAT out of control maybe she is being abused or neglected at home and Child Services should check out her envirnment.... I really hope the mother does not get a Daym Dime from that school or police department. That would make me upset..

God how great this world would be if the public school system was more like a Military School. Public Schools let kids get away with WAY TO MUCH!!! I know I was the Bad Kid for most of my life!!!!!

Here is what we should do... Turn all public schools into Military type schools and for all the whinny parents who don't like it, they can home school thier kids.....

My best freind in School went to a private school til she was in 4th grade...When her mother could not afford it anymore she started going to Public school and all through Elementry, Jr High and HS she always got the best grades beause she was a lot more advanced then we were....

Ya I got a lil off the subject of the BRAT but deal with it

 

[ELKCHSR]

LMAO Majove...
That is so right on the money...
Another one that I think is the silliest thing adults do to their children is to count...
Constancy always wins out here; the kid learns that if they are consistent with the bad behavior, the counting starts but never goes anywhere....

 

[Mojave]

P.S. learned in in a college psych. class.

 

[Quick Draw]

So the little devil child starting all of this because the teacher took away her jelly beans for acting silly? I'm not siding with the devil child but don't ya think that the teacher should have tkaen different steps to stop her from acting silly during class? True the devil child did act out and deserved everything that she got, however I do agree that he campus cop should have been called first then the mother, then police department.
I must say that I was the "Bad Kid" in school, well grade school anyways. I got the punishment that I deserved, most of the time it was a spanking and being grounded. However I was never this bad. I think the little devil child should be displined more than she is at home.
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