A father reported to police by his daughter for slapping her during an argument now banned helping local kids?

Question

He slapped her as she had been terrorising her neighbourhood.

Was this the right course of action

Judging by the way the girl looks on the BBC news page, I would say he was 10 years too late

Answer 1

Makes me want to smack her harder. Little brat. My mother slapped me in an argument several years ago, as a reaction I slapped her back. Never happened again. Calling the Police is pathetic. They should have flung her into care for a while - that would be half way to the punishment she should get!

Answer 2

10 years too late? So you're saying the amount of violence he used is appropriate against a 3 year old? That is sick. I would question your parenting if I were you. Violence is never the answer. I manage to bring my kids up just fine without hurting them, if you can't do that, don't have children.

EDIT: He slapped her across the face? And you think that's acceptable? If he had slapped his wife across the face after she had an argument with the neighbour would your opinion be the same? I didn't think so. He should have brought her up properly in the first place so that it wasn't "necessary."

Answer 3

She should be slapped.Its not like he kicked her in the throat or gave her a black eye. Yea it may sting a little but the dad could have done alot worse. I think he did the right thing. if my kid was beating up kids in my neighborhood i would do what ever it takes to make her stop.

What a ***** too she ruined her dads career just because she was slapped one time in her life, you can also tell though she is a spoiled brat.

KatKat If someone slapped their wife then punish him. Your spouse should not have to learn because they are old enough to not fight with a neighbor. If your son or daughter did it they have to be taught not to do it.

Answer 4

Love it!

For "typical teenager" read " a young person who knows all about her rights, but accepts no responsibilities that go along with having those rights."

It seems that it is perfectly OK for her to terrorise neighbours, but wrong for her to be (severely) punished.

No wonder this country is having such a difficult time with its youth - they know that there are no effective come backs when they behave atrociously

And, no, I do not condone corporal punishment, but can see exactly why her father hit her. He was wrong, but so was she, and a Police caution in this case was an overstep of the mark. He could, and should, have been interviewed, told he was wrong to do what he did and if he did it again he'd be in trouble, and let go with no further action. That would have satisfied his daughter, I feel sure, would have warned him, and would not have needed the formal caution that has put his future jeopardy.

edit:

It's a little curious that there is no mention of the formal Police action that should have happened about HER terrorism of the neighbourhood, isn't it?

Answer 5

Good thing, if he is going to lose his rag like that how can be expected to work with local kids who are probably causing just as much trouble

And as Katkat says, didnt he bring his daughter up and so is responsible for the way she behaves.  If he had installed discipline in her she wouldnt act this way.

I was never hit as a kid and I still know how to behave, I was brought up to respect other people, their property and most of all myself

Answer 6

I haven't seen that story, how old was the daughter and what do u mean by terrorising..

A slap, maybe yes for terrorising others but it depends on the slap really doesn't it!!!

Just saw the clip! thx

Answer 7

Another typical teenager who is not responsible for her own actions, shame on her for calling the police her mother should have slapped her.

Answer 8

Perhaps he had come to the end of his tether. There are too many PC self-righteous fools out there now telling people how to raise their children and interfering in our private home lives. If this girl was terrorising the neighbourhood then why should she get away with it? Kids have too many rights and can run circles around parents and professionals who have to deal with them on a daily basis. You can't hug a child or hit a child for fear of being labelled one thing or another. Which idiot ever said that hugging a child is sexual definitely has issues themselves, also they are encouraging to raise them like a bunch of Spocks, so all the human element is gone. Of course guidelines have to be met but we have gone too far the other way and the only way is back. We must be firmer in dealing with criminals whatever their age especially if they hurt another person. Nobody has the right to interfere in another person's private life unless there is severe foul play. None of us are saints and why should one smack ruin someone's whole life and future, it is wrong! The criminals are laughing at us all, the sickos out there and they are the ones who are getting it easy not the rest of us.

Answer 9

They call everything child abuse these days, even disciplining your own kids, and this particular kid needed to be disciplined.

Answer 10

What a nasty little slag, she,s bloody lucky I was not her father. Reporting her own father to the cops for a slap. I would have kicked her out the house and not let her back until she learned to behave herself. If this no smacking rule make kids like that then its high time the law was reversed.

Answer 11

No it was absolutely not the right course of action, but then again, it just reflects the utter shambles of a justice system that we have. The real criminals, the people who really are guilty of abusing children, are aallowedto run free and do as they please, and when they are caught, they are handed ridiculously short sentences, while people in situations like the one you are talking about, are used as examples and made scape goats in order to keep sone statistic up to the governmemts expectations!!

Answer 12

Slap her?

NO WAY.

Kill her.

Answer 13

She was right to report Child Abuse and Assault. He got what he deserved.

VIOLENCE is never the answer. Never. Speak to your children , do not take out your frustration with violence. You have no right to assault a child whether they are yours or someone elses.

Answer 14

you bet ye he was.

Answer 15

is hitting a child the only way you know, how to make them cooperate ??? no. once you hit, you have lost it.

Answer 16

like most others have already said

a bit of discipline a few years back would have avoided this.

I can't condemn the father for reacting as he did, spur of the moment punishments usually give the best results from parental control.

BUT I DO CONDEMN her for calling the Police about her own father!

Doesn't she think the police have better things to do, like catch real criminals, than even scores for spoilt & precocious teenagers?

stupid child.

Answer 17

The report starts saying she is a "typical teenager".

She was a hoodlem and a thug.  This "slap" may have been her saving grace.

Calling the Police  - should have happened on her long before all this happened.

Answer 18

yes it was my brother had the samething done to him by his daughter when she was stealing cars so he slapped her he got a fine she got nothing so you tell me weres the justice she was 14

Answer 19

Have just wathced the clip on the BBC news site.

What a slag.

Answer 20

if i was her my father would not only slap me, and i don't think he would be wrong.