General Chat

There was a report in the paper today about a man who thought his partner might be mistreating their five year old daughter so he set up a hidden camera in their bedroom.

This recorded her laying in to the little girl and then demanding a cuddle.

The couple have now split up and the little girl is living with her dad but, had he not set up that camera, she would probably still be suffering at the hands of her mother and been totally unable to tell anybody or ask for help.

What an excellent dad.

well done that man

And well done that judge for giving him custody.

Hopefully the mother won't go on to have children with a less vigilant father :-(

I wish I knew the answer of why people abuse children in any way but I do think that the law should find away of finding away of dealing with them so they cant do any more harm to them. its a hard subject to solve. our children need a lot of love in their live not abuse. :-(

If she does go on to have other children she will be known as a violent mother so you would hope that Social Services will be watching.

There is a VERY shocking video on Facebook of a woman cruelly treating a very young baby who looks to be only weeks old. its sickening what she does to the baby and Police are asking do you know this woman .

I wanted to jump right in and take the baby and sock the woman. Why some people abuse kiddies is beyond me

Thank heavens the father did what he did but even that could have been too late, how awful it would have been if that filmed beating had meant the child was braindamaged or otherwise handicapped, or even killed.

I am so glad the child is with a loving father now and safe. Poor little mite was probably too scared to tell anyone what was happening, bless her.

Lizx

This is a bit contentious but I think abusive parents are worse than paedophiles in many ways.

My thinking is that it is the duty of a parent to protect their child from paedophiles but who is there to protect a child from an abusive parent?

Too true, Sharron.......and when (nowadays) they have a choice whether to have a child or not.

Poor little girl thank god she is in safe hands with her father, but on the other hand its not normal to treat a child or your own child like that the mother is obviously ill I do hope she gets the help she needs as well.

I suspect it is more normal than you would hope.

No Sharon it isnt normal to treat a child like that as a Mother I can hand on heart say that, it may be going on a lot more than we can imagine with other children but it certainly isnt normal , I know you had a really bad childhood due to your Mother Sharon and I do hope you dont think I trying to patronise you because I am certainly not.

Sharron is right - it stirred up memories for me and a few more on this board I guess.

Child is so lucky her father was on the alert.

No Hayley, I didn't think you were being patronizing at all.

It was a poor choice of words on my part I think.

Maybe I should have said more general but she was committing the act in secret as do so many more I am sure.

Its ok Sharon I nearly said its popular meaning its happening behind closed doors more we think but I dont think popualar is the correct word either but I am sure you would of got what I meant also I am not happy with the tone to my last post its sounds to me a tad harsh or sharpe again its not meant to be like that... :-D

This could be the Hayley and Sharron apologizing and clarifying thread if we are not careful.

Think how entertaining that would be!

A.S Neil (Summerhill school) thought that smacking children was akin to torture and and related that he was often told that children were frequently more affectionate after they had been hit. It seems that parents thought they were expressing love rather than distress.

The woman in the film asked the child for a cuddle after she had beaten her as if she had different feelings from her own human emotions.

She was probably trying to pretend it would be some kind of forgiveness that would have made her secret act not have happened.