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Grandma Bites Baby
Categories: Babies, Relatives, Weird But True
It's an old joke -- "Dog bites man" isn't news; "Man bites dog" is. In a similar vein, a baby biting her grandmother is no big deal, but a grandmother biting her infant granddaughter -- well, that's news. And so we have the case of Penny L. Huston who is being charged with two felonies after having allegedly bitten her granddaughter's shoulder.Huston claims she is innocent and says the proof is in her mouth -- or, rather, isn't in her mouth; she says it's obvious she couldn't have bitten the six-month-old "due to [Huston] not having enough teeth." A police officer, however, who examined and photographed the grandmother's mouth, says that the gaps in her teeth may indeed match the wound. Huston also suggested that either the baby bit herself or that the family dog did it.
The girl's mother left the baby with Huston for about three hours on January 12 when the incident occurred. It seems that if Huston really didn't want to watch the kid, she could have just said so instead of biting her. It would have made life a lot easier all around.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tara 1-21-2009 @ 8:12PM
When my now 16 year old daughter was little she bit a total of THREE times , I was the person she bit & when she did I bit her back .... she learned real fast that when she did that she in turn felt pain thus ending that nasty habit.
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Bena 1-21-2009 @ 8:51PM
I agree. Been there done that. I was also a bitter as a young child. Parents said they tried everything they could think of to stop me. Finally the babysitter had enough of being bitten and bit me back. They say I never bit again. Also worked with my grandson who started out to be a bitter.
Jessica Allen 1-21-2009 @ 10:54PM
omg is this really news. We are so silly that a grandma who was teaching her grand child a lesson is gonna be in trouble. people need to stay out of others buisness
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Kara 1-22-2009 @ 8:22PM
You should keep in mind, though, that the story doesn't specify just why the baby was bitten.
Biting to teach a child not to bite, fine; if it's not a cruel bite, it's justified.
But what if the baby was just crying, or if the grandmother was frustrated and took it out on her?
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moppity 1-22-2009 @ 11:01AM
It worked for the cat too. She kept biting at my ankles, so I bit her back and that was the end of that.
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SunnyLori 1-22-2009 @ 7:47PM
http://pal-item.com/article/20090121/NEWS01/901210305
this is the article from our local paper with the complete-as-it-can-be story. this grandmother just isn't right in the head.
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Jsilly 1-22-2009 @ 8:26PM
Ugh, hello people, the baby was 6 months old! Not a bratty kid, an infant! Thank you SunnyLori for attaching a real article with the facts.
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