Woman Jailed For Dragging Kid on Leash

Of course many will rush to her defense. So many parents talk about how stressful it is to be a parent and well "if you don't have kids, you wouldn't understand". When in fact IN MOST CASES....parents haphazardly have children, do whatever, make a mess of their own lives and then once they get an inkling, they then want the child to fall in line. It doesn't work that way. You must be prepared and start from day 1. Not wait until they are 6 and 7 before you start trying to SET AN EXAMPLE with the way you live your lives. Kids learn from the example that you set. THAT is how you gain respect from a child....not your silly threats of taking them out of the world or how Im going to beat you if you don't do this. SUCH A JOKE! I have a solution. If you have no parental skills and feel that the job may be too stressful for you...
KEEP YOUR DAMNED LEGS CLOSED AND YOUR PENISES IN YOUR DAMNED BOXERS. It's not complicated. Everyone should not be having children. Not everyone is equipped to educate and nurture a child. Grow up and stop being selfish about fulfilling your dreams of being a parent or for men.....carrying on your last name. Spare the kid the drama....put on a condom....or take my initial advice. KEEP IT CLOSED AND/OR TUCKED AWAY!

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I do not think the woman hurt the child in anyway , but I do think she should have picked the child up and removed him from the store and talked to him about what he did wrong. My youngest child is very strong willed and I have to leave the store(s) and correct her meaning I will go home and she knows what she did wrong... discipline......

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i dont blame this mother at all. the child was probably being bad as hell. and if he was really being hurt, he would have been trying to get his bad butt up. Im sure some people don't agree, but its def not something for someone to go to jail over! unless this lady has a history of seriously abusing her kids, they need to let her go

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Ok Seriously people. You have no idea what is going on here. The kid is having fun. Obviously it is a child harness not a leash around the kids neck. This is ridiculous. If the kid is throwing a tantrum, you have no choice, but to do something. You cant beat them, you cant grab them, but if you lose them you are a bad parent. As a parent with a hyper child, who has lost my children before, I feel the leash is very important. So anyone who is too busy worrying about what other people do with their child, unless that child is being beaten or really abused in any way.

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I would have left the kid there, and called security to get him out of the store.....I'd say "he ran away and I can't find him"....let them carry him out to the car. I don't think that this was an offense that required the mother to go to jail....sheesh! She did nothing to harm him, and he was very passive during the whole thing....as if he were enjoying it.

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Not knowing the situation, I don't think it is fair to judge this mom. Many people mentioned chidren that are "runners". I always thought that those leashes were insane, then I became a mom. I have a special needs son that is 9, and I wish I would have started him on a leash when he was younger. He's getting too big for the shopping cart, but can NOT stay with me in the store, waiting in line to check out is torture for him, which turns in to torture for everyone around. If I had a leash he would at least have to stay close by. It's not that he doesn't want to, his body won't allow him to. I don't think I would have drug him out like that, but who knows. After a trying day, and there are many, I might be tempted. He's getting to heavy to carry very far. I think she should get a chance to explain herself.

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The article said she remained in jail without bail! WITHOUT BAIL!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME???!!!???!!?!?!? bernie madoff was out on bail before he got 150 years in jail and this woman had no bail. I am not 100% condoning what she did because I don't know all the details. Does she have a record of child abuse or has dss been called before? Has she been arrested before? Does this kid have any emotional issues? How did she handle the situation before this and how many times did she try and handle it in a better way? These are all relevant questions we don't know the answers to. I am going to assume for a minute that she is a good person and parent and has never had any problems in the past. I am going to assume that this kid was being a royal pain in the ass and that she tried numerous times to get him to listen to her. Then I will assume that she gave him an option, either walk on your own or I am going to drag you out of this store. My guess, the kid didn't listen and talked back to her. If all my assumptions are correct then I really don't think this is as big a deal as people are making it out to be. Could she have handled it differently, yes. Was this the best outcome to the situation, no. But damn it, I am sick and tired of how society brutalizes people without knowing all the facts and I am sick of how we are unable to discipline our kids as we see fit. No, I am not condoning child abuse or beating children, but this was not child abuse and there is a clear difference between strong discipline and abuse. I truly believe that you should try everything else before using strong discipline. However, I am of the belief that spanking your child is not a crime. It is something that should be used with great care and infrequently so when and if you do spank a child they know they did something very wrong. If you spank you child every time they don't listen it will not work. Bottom line is that it will be a tragedy if this woman has no record and looses that kid because of this. Why are teenagers so f#$ked up and highly medicated in this country? Why are so many kids so disrespectful, spoiled, mentally weak and have no work ethic? Think it may have something to do with the way this country has changed its views on discipline over the past 20 years. We need to go halfway back to the way things used to be. We need to let our kids be kids and teach them respect at the same time. There is something to be said about the way things used to be!

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I wish more parents would follow up on disciplining their children...then they may be less likely to act up in my classroom. Go mom! Truly though, she cleared all the doors and he lookes like he was going for the ride of his life...no protest from the kid. I wouldn't do it on that yucknasty floor though, but leave that mommy alone...she knows her kid and his issues.

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Parents who judge others for using harnesses have no idea what it's like to be a parent today! I have three kids (11,7,2) and used a harness with my oldest (a runner) and my youngest. My middle child was compliant and never needed it. It's not that we can't hold our kids hands or discipline them (although we OBVIOUSLY can't anymore lest we get jail time), it's that we want them to be safe. After seeing Walmart security cameras capture the kidnapping of a little girl in Texas who was found dead days later, what parent wouldn't use a harness?? That girls mother was standing just a few feet away right near the front door, and a killer snatched her in a second! That's why I chose to use the harness!

As far as the dragging part, puh-leeze! My kids endured more pain today at Kennywood park (and joyfully so) on the bumpy, whiplash and headache inducing rides than that child did! As another writer also said, my son would beg me to do that to him...in fact, he actually did beg me to drag him across our wood floors at home! It's interesting this mom could be jailed while true abusers are reported multiple times without consequence and molesters get out of jail in months to go molest again. That's our government!

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This made me sick to my stomach to see a grown person treat a child this way! To drag your child and other people look on is horrible!! If I was in that store at the time I would have punched her!! NO questions ask this is NOT right and totally unacceptable!! Who ever thinks that it is ok to drag a child like this and keep going like nothing is wrong IS CrAzY!! Just goes to show how ruthless we have become There is enough IDIOTS out there doing harm to children without there own parent treating them like animals..I have 3 kids I would never do this to one of mine!! She should have left the store before going this far, think about this>She does this in public....Ever stop to think what she does in private? Most of all threw this whole thing 'NOBODY' came to the childs rescue thats scary!!

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Wow how rediculous that someone would chose not t use the safety harness out of embarrasment or because they are afraid of redicule. YOUR CHILDS SAFETY IS THE OST IMPORTANT THING! Her choice use the "leash" is justified by the mere fact that it was invented! I personally have no problem using any iem that will make my life easier and childs life comfortable. I can not judge this woman, we would hve to know the facts before doing so. Is it an often occurance? Are theyre worse things going on at home? Was it a one time incident to prove a point to her child? id he even get hurt???? How are we to know unless we both live with this woman and we're theret witness the incident ourselves. I would say 99.9 % of us weren't! Before you judge someone else ask yourself (if you even have kids, because if you don't... seriously YOU have absolutely no room to talk) Has your child ever ate something off the floor? Have you ever left your childin a room alone for more than 30 seconds including nap time? Let your child play with your dog? Eat sand, playdough, paint? Spanked your kid? Ignored your kid? Did this mean you do not love them? What if you were video taped? Seriously people???

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I have no problem with people using a leash / harness on their kids if they feel that is their only way to keep them safe, I do however have a problem with a mother who drags her child on that leash, presumably because said child wasn't cooperating. My daughter is never on a leash but has thrown herself dramatically to the floor and refused to get up (she's 2) - she then does the limp baby trick that makes her almost impossible to do anything with. I simply fireman's lift her over my shoulder at that point and walk out of wherever we are - if I know she may not behave in a store (by her mood in the car driving somewhere) then she goes in the stroller - end of story. But still, there is NO justification for dragging a child across a store - the mother should be jailed for it simply because she was too stupid to even think that people would be horrified. Seriously, how could the mother not think she was doing wrong here? My daughter drives me almost to insanity when she is screaming and carrying on, but my adult brain knows what is right, and this simply was wrong!

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EAT FRENCH FRIES, GO TO JAIL. WHEN THEY CONTROL YOUR HEALTH CARE THEY CONTROL ...YOU.

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ...JUST BEND OVER AND SAY ...AHHH ...

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I would never put a leash on my 3-year-old. He likes to play doggie so much that he would never walk upright again.

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No matter a leash or harness you do not drag a child or animal like that. Anyone who thinks it is ok because the child is a so called runner should not be a parent. End of discussion.

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FIRST OF ALL IT IS WRONG TO PUT ANYONE ON A LEASH< IF PARENTS CAN NOT TEACH THERE CHILD HOW TO ACT WHEN THEY ARE OUT, THAN LEAVE THEM HOME. SHE COULD HAD VERY WELL PICKED HER CHILD UP AND WALKED OUT THE STORE. CHILDREN ARE LITTLE PEOPLE.THEY NEED TO BE TREATED THAT WAY NOT LIKE SOME DOG. I SEE ALOT OF PARENTS THAT REALLY NEED BETTER PARENTING SKILLS, IM SURE THIS WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME THIS WM HAS DONE THIS TO THE CHILD, WHERE IS DAD,oH BY THE WAY< SHOPPING IS AN ADULT THING, KIDS GET VERY BORED, LOOKING AROUND WITH MOM, GET GRANDMA TO TAKE CARE OF THEM WHILE YOU DO YOUR LOOK A LU, I HOPE THEY HANG HER ASS< SHAME ON YOU LADY,

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This was a good laugh.. The mother wasn't beating her child so whats the problem?? The "leash" wasn't about this child's neck so whats the problem?? The speed of her walk It seems pretty obvious to me that she gave him the choice to either get up and walk out the store or be dragged out the store.. He obviously chose option B than so be it.. When children press buttons and put the parents authority to test, than they will be taught a lesson.. TALKING ISN'T ENOUGH FOR ALL CHILDREN !!!

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I remember the days where it was hit first, ask questions later, And god forbid a neighbor or a friends called home to report errant behavior...... or worse yet the school!!!!!! Perhaps that is also the reason we are a generation of ethic. Now a days the kids dont have to be home when the street light comes on, and hardly any one is watching... Kids have it easier than we did... Now you leash your kid, and act on a threat you can go to jail... What message does that send children? That they have the upper hand... The results, spoiled, narcisstic, brats that think the world owes them.

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chill out everyone at least the kid was dragged on carpet and not on concrete...and the kid was probably laffin cuz they thought it was a fun ride....

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