JumpinJack
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Child cruelty or just some good old fashioned discipline?? If you think the former, what 'punishment' do you approve of?
Father faces child cruelty charges for teen's punishment
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I was on the fence with this until I read the article:
"This was done multiple times over a three-day period, sometimes as early as 3 o'clock in the morning," Police Sgt. Todd Garner told 11Alive on Tuesday.
Garner said the boy, who is only 4'2" tall, was also punished in-between the 3-mile hikes.
"In between that time, he was at home having to move rocks and stuff from one side of the back yard to the other and then being taken right back out to the same location and dropped off and made to walk back again," Sgt. Garner added.
The boy's trek would begin on Kings Highway and end at the family's home in the Fairways subdivision.
That was not a simple "teach him to work hard" lesson. That was something more. Something personal. Something mean. The sort of thing that causes problems in a youngster when he grows up. This was not a loving lesson doled out by a loving father to teach his son responsibility. Even though he didn't beat him up, it's a cruel act. To wake up a teen in the middle of the night & force him to tote heavy stones down the dark road and back, and keep doing it off and on for days? Cruelty.