A life of a little girl is taken by Punishment
By lelin1123
@lelin1123 (15595)
Puerto Rico
February 23, 2012 1:04pm CST
In Alabama a little 9 year old girl named Savannah was punished for lying to her grandmother about eating some candybars. The grandma and stepmom then decided to as a punishment to make Savannah run for three hours without stopping for water or just to take a break. She ended up having a seizure and dying. She was severely dehydrated and had a low sodium count. The grandmother and stepmom have been arrested and have a 500,000 dollar bail over their heads. This is so appalling that a grandmother and stepmom could do this to their child. How horrific over lying about eating candybars. It sickens me to hear day in and day out about child abuse caused by parents and or grandparents. When is this type of behavior going to stop? Why do precious children have to continue to be abused and then killed? I'm so upset right now I can't stop crying.
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12 responses
@jujunme (2501)
• United States
23 Feb 12
I know exactly how you feel. Every day you hear more and more about parents, grandparents,and relatives abusing, or murdering their own children and it is beyond sickening.My pain and sorrow started with Casey Anthony murdering her little girl Caylee and it hasn't stopped since then.
These animals that did this to their own granddaughter should have the same thing done to them they are inhuman and evil.why else were they able to do this to an innocent little girl? I also agree these kinds of things have to end, perhaps CPS(child protective services) should begin doing a better job protecting these little ones by investigating certain individuals who really shouldn't have any children period.
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
24 Feb 12
I know I followed that case to from day one and still can't believe that the mother got away with murder. So there was not a bit of justice for baby Caylee and no one seems to care except the public. It makes me so mad when I think of what that poor child went thru.
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@jujunme (2501)
• United States
24 Feb 12
And on top of all this Casey goes around making videos about how her life is going now,without one mention of her daughter it's as if in her sick mind,Caylee never existed. i can only hope that someday she receives the punishment she so rightly deserves, she is one sick individual.
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
25 Feb 12
I know I have seen some of one of the video's. I had to shut it off because she was making me sick in my stomach. It was and has always been all about her. Never a care or mention about her precious daughter. Another sick, "so called mother."
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
23 Feb 12
This is indeed very sad.
How could they ever do that to an innocent and helpless 9 years old kid.
I wonder if their parents ever punished them same thing for lying and eating candy bars.
I hope the punishment for them is not bailable.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
24 Feb 12
I sometimes think it would be better if spanking could come back! I know if I had lied to my mom I would have gotten a spanking and a lecture about Never lying to my parents. But Now either some parents do nothing or they try to be too creative!So kids just do whatever or they run the risk of being abused! It is so sad.There is nothing we can do but hope that more parents learn how to truly discipline their children And protect the children we have in our lives. So hug the kids you have in your life and try to stop crying.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
24 Feb 12
That is appalling! I have a hard time believing that some people could be so cruel or so stupid to punish in such a way. This is so shocking I don't know what more to say. 
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
25 Feb 12
I will never understand an adult being able to hurt a child. It just does not make sense to me. How a person could let themselves get to that place in their brain bewilders me.
@jazel_juan (15746)
• Philippines
24 Feb 12
over just a candy bar, how downright inhuman...kids always EAT candy bars! I mean who didn't??? 
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
25 Feb 12
Exactly, so if she lied about eating the candybar big deal. If anything send her to her room for 30 minutes or an hour. Tell her not to lie about such things again. No they have her run for 3 hours without stopping or drinking water.
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
24 Feb 12
This is very upsetting. I can't imagine what this poor child went through.
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@kat_princess (1470)
• Philippines
26 Feb 12
I feel bad for this girl as I feel for her because I'm in not so good terms with my parents.I'll really search for the booked entitled "Discipline with out the spanking or shouting".I wouldn't have the heart to hurt my future children because I don't want the same thing that happened to me to happen to them.
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
2 Mar 12
I was punished serverly myself as a child. The punishments were either standing or kneeling in a corn for hours and once kneeling on rice while holding a toolkit in my hands with my arms extended out. I received this punishment because I was the oldest of five and I guess we weren't going to sleep fast enough for my parents. I promised from that day forward I would never treat my kids this way. I'm glad to say my girls are now 31 and 33 and I never had to raise my hands to them or punish them in a horrible manner as my parents did.
@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
23 Feb 12
I am actually kind of to that same point as Duke before me... I want to be shocked and appalled, disgusted and outraged but extreme and irrational behavior like this has become so commonplace it's almost like it's no longer extreme or irrational. Sadly, I don't think it will stop. I think it's only getting worse.
I grew up in a small town so naturally the statistics I saw as a kid are greatly diminished from that of someone in a big city. But I don't remember child abuse being nearly the problem it is now.... or for that matter any of the horrible ways people treat each other now. There was a woman, when I was 15, I think, ish, who shot her abusive husband but that was really all we heard about domestic abuse of any kind. I'm not saying it wasn't there, I'm sure it was, it just wasn't as prominent. There were gangs and they'd shoot each other over nothing (basically) but they voluntarily put themselves into that position. Sure there were cases where innocent bystanders got hit in the crossfire but mostly, the kids who got killed in a gang shooting were gang members. Now, kids in high schools shoot each other over girlfriends or homework or the last soda from the vending machine.
It's scary how quickly our society is devolving.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
24 Feb 12
This heart wrenching and I get very upset when I hear some of the horrific stories of child abuse that seem to plagues us more and more each day. I can not imagine how hard or black a heart can be to treat a child the way some people do. Terrible...just terrible.
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@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
25 Feb 12
I know I will never understand it. My heart goes out to a child who is crying or upset about anything. To be so afraid that she felt the need to lie about eating the candybar she had to have been abused for a long time. I can't imagine having a child continue running for all thoses hours. OMG I'm just so sick over this. The worst part is that everytime you turn around its another child being abused or killed. It doesn't stop!
@picjim (3002)
• India
24 Feb 12
None of grew up to be what we are today under such harsh environment nor did we receive such brutal treatment for our lapses.There are so many ways of correcting and making children realize the folly of their ways.By being so strict the life of a young child was snuffed out.I feel people who mete out such severe and cruel punishment don't understand children or have humane behavior in them in the first place.
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@mariab2000 (740)
• Canada
23 Feb 12
This is so horrible, how can they punish a little girl like this. How can they punish her to such an extent for such a small thing. People like this don't deserve to have children as they are a precious gift to us and need to be taken care of and loved. They should not be abused like this. It is so sad to hear about these abuse stories...
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