A mom in Oklahoma has been arrested for allegedly spanking her 5-year-old son with a bag of glass. Alicia Anne Croney brought her son to the emergency room with cuts on his legs so deep they needed surgery. And she brought a very suspicious story to explain it. Supposedly she caught her son playing video games when he wasn't supposed to be. She grabbed a Doritos bag out of the garbage to spank her son with and "forgot" that it contained glass.
I mean ... where do you even begin with this story? Spanking your child with a chips bag? That doesn't even make sense! Unless Croney was just so blind with rage she was grabbing at anything -- in which case, she shouldn't be spanking at all. She should be putting herself into a time-out until she can think straight and not grab things out of the freaking garbage to hit her son with.
Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Major Shannon Clark also has a hard time believing the story:
That someone would spank someone with a Doritos bag is highly unlikely. Not that it didn't happen, but it seems like of all things that you would have at your disposal in your home, a Doritos bag ... I'm just not finding the relevance as far as how that would discipline a child.
Right? Even when you factor in the rest of the details -- Croney says she and her son were cleaning up pieces of broken glass when the dog ran away with a piece, so she had to chase the dog, and then she found her son playing video games -- they still don't make any sense. For starters, why is she asking a 5-year-old to help clean up broken glass?
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Whatever the real story is, it sounds like Croney needs help. Bringing a child to the hospital with those horrible cuts, not coming up with an explanation that makes any sense at all, broken glass, dogs -- it sounds like a life that's spun out of control. Her poor son. What a traumatic experience, regardless of what really happened. I hope he finds a kinder, more patient caregiver while they sort this all out.
What do you think really happened here?
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Unless you're just trying to fuel the spanking wars. In which case I don't want to read this crap anyway.
This woman did not "spank" her child, she "beat" her child! Amazing how many sick people are out there raising kids.
What?? This makes no sense. I had to read it and listen and I still feel baffled. This is horrible.
The proper title should be "woman beats son with bag of glass".
Get off your freaking sanctimonious high horse. There is a difference between spanking and beating. Spanking is not always the best way to discipline, but it is way different from abuse. Stop thinking your better than everyone else (because it's obvious that you think you are in everything you post). There is nothing wrong with not spanking, if your form of discipline works with your paticular child, Bur stop looking down your nose at those who do things differently than you.