What Punishment Do You Think Fits This Crime

They need psychiatric treatment to begin with and also the authorities should take that child away from them and put it in a foster home. Locking up a child in a washing machine is weird and no one who is normal would do it.

I would say jail time indeed and parenting classes for the fact that it was negligent and endangering a child. To me it's not an accident since its not like a car accident so they knew what they where doing. I don't care if they said it was stupid or not because one that to me is just touring a child for there own please of getting a laugh. I don't think the kid found it funny at all.

I here you Americans are very good at waterboarding all the best urban

A washing machine must only be used for washing clothing. I know if a child is naughty then say no and if he or she continues then the parent can put him or her in time out. A 2 year old would have two minutes and a 5 year old would have five minutes time out. The time out area would be in a safe area within the house. It might be a naughty map facing the wall. The parents should not have put their child in a washing machine. That was awful and it was much worse that they actually began the wash cycle. If I was the judge I would not be sure which punishment fits that crime. It was cruelty and negligence. These parents probably regret what they did. I would have them in a court and think very carefully indeed.

This is beyond stupid and seriously I'm not sure why you would even hesitate in taking this child from these parents. A parenting class is not going to fix this kind of stupidity. They don't teach you things like , "do not put your baby in a washer", "do not set your baby in the campfire" etc. It is common sense that these parents lack and that can't be taught. I would have left my husband immediatly after such an incident and he would have only supervised visits with my child. I watched the video and it appeared that the lady did not know until after the fact that the baby was put in the washer. IF that is true then she should be let off easy. Honestly, my husband used to abuse me and the cops told me that if I chose to stay with him that they would take my kids the next time they came to the house. Why? because it wasn't a good environment for the kids. They were right! Someone with the mentality that would even come up with the thought to put a child in the washer deserves to lose his right to be a parent. Any mother that tolerates someone doing that to her child is no better than the person doing it. If she doesn't boot him out then she deserves to lose the baby. If grandparents or other family are willing and able to help then they should be the first option.

I just saw that on local news today. I was really pissed with the parents' negligence and stupidity. And, worse is the kid got hurt. That was really very irresponsible and immature of them.

Sounds like they're too stupid to live if they think that putting a kid in a washer is funny. And then "they felt bad" but never turned it off or pulled the plug? Right.

It was later discovered that the one who did that was the babysitter and her boyfriend. I´d punish the media for writing things about people without investigating first. If I were those people, I´d sue Yahoo.

Oh I would totally lock these parents up for years. What is so funny about putting a child in a washer and then starting it up? Did they not think it would not only just scare the bleep

Hello friend, It is a very horrible incident. I think they are very bad parents. So they are should be punished by police. Have a nice day.

I would throw the book at these parents, because that's not negligence I think that's straight up abuse. I mean broken bones, risk of drowning - that's all real, and it would be intentional in my mind if two able minded adults did this and then had something like that happen.

Hello PhillyDreamer, I also read this today and was appalled. I cannot imagine ever doing such a thing to a child even just to scare them. I think the parents need to be punished but what is appropriate is hard to determine. Even though the child did not have any severe injuries, the emotional trauma can be lifelong. There is no action severe enough to punish people who do lifelong damage to a child. Hopefully the child will not be affected, but who knows.

What sort of a sick mind would you need to have in the first place to think it funny to place your kids in a washing machine... How did the machine start up by itself... I read the article too and it sounded fishy to me... As for a punishment, I agree that some jail time is deserved simply for stupidly placing the child in such a dangerous situation...

Duuuude! I remember you from Triond! How you doing man? I think that deserves at least 10 years in Jail!

I can't really think of an appropriate punishment. This is just a horrible thing to have happen, and I cannot help but wonder what possessed these people to think this would be funny.

If I had this as my case I would first make a call to their home and determine it the child was in any immediate danger. If not I would examine the role of the parents and take action. It would not be my mandate to punish a parent unless a crime was committed and then would pass that on to the criminal system. (they have already been hurt by this) This washing machine play sounds like something that children would do to other children and not responsible adults. Therefore, I would insist that they take part in some kind of counsel to develop adult parent skills and/or investigate their ability to be parents and make changes if required.

I feel that child should be taken into social services and the parents should lose the opportunity to raise that child because they are too immature for the responsibility. The child would be better off if placed in a home where he can be secure and loved by parents he's able to trust and respect.

Putting the child in the washer is not a good idea to discipline the child. He/ she maybe done wrong but it is just normal to the kids to commit mistake because they are not aware of what they are doing for they are still kids. If the mother loves her child so much she must think first of options to what kind of punishment that she will give to her child but not the stupid and dangerous one.