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Mom Sets Up Horrifying Boxing Match Between Toddlers (VIDEO)
With all of the violence and rudeness in today's world, parents should be teaching their kids how to behave and treat each other with respect. But one mother instead decided to teach her toddler, who appears to be around 3 years old, to throw punches like a boxer -- at another toddler. The woman, who remains unidentified because no charges have yet been filed, videotaped two young toddler girls fighting while she shouted encouragements like, "Got some action!" and "Y'all better ball up some fists!" The toddlers scream hysterically while slamming their little fists into each other. You can probably guess what happened next -- the woman posted the video to Facebook.
After posting the video, one of her friends saw it and sent the video to a local television station, KTVI, in St. Louis, Missouri. Said the woman, "In the black community ... it's really sickening that these kids are learning how to fight, getting guns and stuff ... it shouldn't be going on." She added that she hoped the child was taken away from her mother until she can "better herself."
The TV station handed the video over to child welfare officials, but they would not say if the mother is being investigated. In the video, she is laughing in the background and seems to think there's nothing wrong with what she's doing -- which would explain sharing it with her pals on Facebook. The friend who handed the tape over to the TV station said she thinks the mom is "training" her daughter for school.
Maybe the mother thought she should teach her daughter some fisticuffs for daycare. Or in case she got a bully in kindergarten, she'd be prepared. I'm not excusing the situation, what she is doing is teaching these kids to be violent. Not to mention that the girls could have seriously injured each other. Plus, kids aren't roosters to be put into a ring to fight it out for adult entertainment. In fact, that shouldn't be done to roosters either!
But I don't think the mother thought she was doing anything wrong. Maybe the kids had been fighting previously and she wrongly imagined encouraging them was funny and would get it out of their system. Who knows. The tragic fact is what she is teaching these young toddlers is probably what she was taught herself.
Here is the video of the toddlers fighting. Be warned it's disturbing.
Do you think this mother needs to go to jail -- or needs counseling? Or both?
Image via KTVI
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TorranceMom
Jessi
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Caryn Rix
So SO SO sad! These babies,are in the hands of monsters and this has probably been all they know! I pray that someone steps in and takes them to a better home where they can be loved and learn love instead of hate! This mother needs to be cut , tied, sautered and God help her if she goes to jail! So many people out there wanting kids and yet, she has one that is being tortured!
princess20825
This mother needs to go to jail. She has no right to encourage these children to beat each other up like this. The parents of the other child needs to take legal action against the mother cause she is teaching these kids to be bullies and thats not a good thing at all.
Mrscjones
the4mutts
She needs some parenting classes, and to put her kids in a DICIPLINE oriented self-defense/fighting type class if she thinks they need I.
Miz Kizzy
Girls are targeted more often by predators of all kinds, and *all* kids need to know that they have the right to fight back. It seems savage, but that's the way it is.
My mother left off the whole "turn the other cheek" crap when I came home from school beaten, bloody and soaking wet. A bunch of boys jumped me on the way home from school, (I was 9), tried to drown me in the creek. I was the first Black kid schooled in that town. Never lost a fight since, people learned not to bother me.
My daughter and grandchildren can defend themselves, or are learning now, age dependent. I wouldn't pit two kids this young, this way, but I'm not her, I don't know where she lives, or if she can afford proper lessons. What I do think is that these two little ones will grow up watching each others' back. A child aware is less likely to be taken than a meek one.
Don't be so dammned quick to judge. When a child in *your* family or neighbourhood is found after a predator has been at them, some of the questions you will ask yourself is "did she scream? fight back? try to run? why did no one hear her?"
You do *not* want to see what's left of these children.