Tough Love or Child Abuse...

I would classify that as child abuse. And that child needs to not be in the same house as that crazy lady as far as i'm concerned. WHAt the HECK are people thinking when they do these things to their own children. . ? I would have turned her straight into the police.

In my book this is too much. I have never been sprayed with one of these hoses. I have however, walked through a car wash to see what it was like for the car. Ok I am a little strange. I would think that the hose would hurt or at least sting. I would also want to know what kind of leason she was trying to teach the child. Not to touch pressure washers. NOt to go near water. This really doesn't make sense to me. Police use fire hoses to disperse crowds. This is supposed to be safe. Other than a sting maybe the pressure hose did not do any real damage. I would have to actually let someone use a pressure hose on me to actually make a call on this situation. I personally would never do this to my child. I do have to say though that I have done a few things that others have made comments on that I abuse my child. Let me give you an example. My daughter was and is very hard headed. She would walk into a wall back up and walk into it again. When asked why she did it again she would say I thought it would move. My daughter did not fear anything when she was very young. The only thing I had that worked for her was pulling her hair. She hated that. One day I was out yard saling and my daughter decided that she was going to go out into the street after being told to stay still. When she steped off the curb I quickly grabed her by the hair and pulled her back. There was a car comming and I really did not have time to grab any where eles. The woman at the yard sale told me how terrible I was. I told her simply I would rather pull her hair than have to pay a hospital bill after the car hit her. If I was lucky the doctor bills would be all I had. So you see what seems harsh to some are not to others. My daughter is seventeen and still very hard headed by at least she is still with us. I do not think I want to judge this mother because I really do not know what she was thinking when she did this. I hope she thought it through before she just sprayed her child with the pressure hose. For the most part I try not to judge peoples ways of punishment since I had such a hard time finding ways to punish my own child. I also would not want someone interfering in the raising of my daughter either. There are too many parents out there that do not disapline their children at all or even try to control their bad behavior. Who are we really to judge. Children do not come with a manual that says do not do this that or the other. I would not do the pressure hose thing but if it worked for her and child is ok than that is that. I do not think a two year old can get that out of control but I don't know the child or the mother so I do not know. Again I would not use this form of punishment on my child.

If the presure on the hose was turned up to the fullest 1200 pSI the little girl wouldnt have been just standing there it would have pushed her back and down maybe she had pottied and thuis was the only thing mom could do to get the dodo off. as they found no marks or any thing to document I would say more like tough love than abuse! I would have went and stopped her but sometimes ya can get in trouble by trying to help!

I am so glad she was stupid enough to do this on camera. I wonder how she would like to get hit with that herself. Good thing the manager reported it before this woman did anything worse to her daughter. She's not even 3 years old! The worst part is, she is having another child in 4 months. Can you imagine how much less patience she will have with two children at the same time? Child abuse is one of the big contributers of angry children that act out in schools. I hope they have court ordered visits on her for the next 10 years, at least.

I heard that the mother gave herself up and the police were still trying to figure out whether they should charge her or not. I think its stupid what she did and that poor child having to go through that. I'm wondering what other things she has done to her daughter :(

I don't think that it was child abuse but I do think that it was a mistake that the parent made and that they were just carrying on and it got out of hand. I don't think that child services should take the child out of the home but I do think that the situation should at least be monitored.

I am very behind in my mylotting and I don't have the time to go to sites to look up everything but I was wondering why was the child sprayed?

WOW!!! I don't really not WHAT to think about that! I didn't get to watch the entire video (i'm uploading pictures to myspace so it's eating my bandwidth) but I seen half of it anyway. I think there should be a very thorough investigation into this matter! Good grief the child was only 2 and a half!!!

Gosh, how awful. The woman needs a good kick up the rear and a hose like that turned on her to see how it feels. Like others have said, if she can do this sort of thing out in public, what on earth is she doing at home? Also as said above, I am doubtful that the authorities will taken real action against but I wish that they would. It might not be till she breaks one of her child's bones till they take drastic action...

I felt totally sick watching this. To me this was a diffinete case of child abuse. I wondered immediately what this mother would be doing at home to the child if they were at home at that moment. What is wrong with people? I am all for the spanking when need be ( a spanking and not a beating) as children need discipline and sometimes a spanking is the only way to get through to them that they can't be doing what they are doing. All the power to the parents who have never spanked there child; thats of course if they manage to raise wonderful human beings. I have seen many kids that a spanking (not a beating) was just what they needed to turn them around.

No, this is not what "tough love" means, this is definitely child abuse!

This is ridiculous. It just makes me sick and I feel for the poor little girl. In the news article it quotes her saying "Don’t worry, I’m not going to hit you now." That implies that she has hit her daughter in the past and/or plans to hit her later. I would definitely say this is child abuse. I don't care what the child did. This is no way to discipline a child.

this is disgusting.if i saw that woman doing that i would have gone and got a hose and turned it on to her,but then i would be the one up on charges and she would get off without any.unfortunately sometimes family services never do anything,untill it is too late.i dread to think what this child gets at home.cheers sue

oh mt god! i have 3 liltte girls who have been abused by there father and i think that what that woman did is child abuse,the sprayers could cause a lot of dameage and lucky for the child there was none, however that is not a way of disaplin for a child. the woman dosent need to keep her children as far as iam concerned. abuse is abuse in any for or fashion

How is spraying your child with a powerwasher be disipline?! Those things hurt bad! and the child is young 2 1/2 years old. If i was the owenr I would have stepped in and said something to her and informed her I would be contacting someone about her own behaviour.

That is awful. Esically to a little child that young. Pure child abuse.

If this is true and yes I did see the video when it was showed on the news than I would think that Family Services would already been there and taken the child. But the news tonight said that there was no signs on the child to indicate that she had been abused. I think that we are under moral obligation when we see something like this to report it. If the owner saw what was going on then he should have done something. It is hard to determine which this is. On the one hand it appears she is abusing her child. I would never use this form of discipline to a child of mine.

That is evil and sick. I do not care what she claimed she was doing. What she did to that two year old child was abuse and she had to know that it was too much. You do things like that to your enemy, someone that you hate. I would not do that to any child, much less, my two year old. There is just no excuse for that at all. She should be prosecuted and that child should be placed in a loving home. Surely that had to be traumatizing.

I think that we need to step in when it comes to protecting childrem. We cannot continue looking the other way. Childrem and animals need our protection and abuse is illegal.

This is far from tough love, in fact I fail to see that there was any love involved at all. This is more than just wrong. The child is 2 1/2. They are still only babies at that age. Even if this act was on a ten year old it would be questionable but on a child so young it is disgusting. How could any parent do that to their child? What is the world coming too? There is no doubt that I would have stepped in, children need adults to stand up for them. As she is only a young mother she may not have really realised how wrong her actions were but but that is not really much of an excuse. I hope that she is given some positive parenting classes otherwise I hope that little girl gets removed from the possibility of further incidents