Anyone at DL yesterday see 2 parent's beating their son?

[tinksdreamwishes]

Yes this is all sickening. I have a daycare- and I am supposed to report Child Abuse if I see it. SO I would have if I was there.

So on another note- OP said the boy said something like "oh now its dads turn".....
That suggests to me that abuse has been going on for awhile now. Why would parents take their kids to Disneyland if they feel that their Child doesn't deserve to be there?

Ok and to make some light of the situation maybe.... just maybe..... this child was like the child on the movie Case 39. I hope I didn't offend anyone by saying that. I am just trying to ease my own mind of this situation happening. Poor kid.

 

[Susie63]

I walked up to dad who was cuffing his kid (about 8 yr old kid)around at a mall one time. He didn't see me coming so I asked him very loudly if he needed any help beating the kid because I think that 60 lb. kid might be getting the upper hand. He was so embarrased as everyone around heard as well. Security arrived right behind me.

 

[blackjackdelta]

I am one of those who would have jumped in, I have in the past in both DLR and DTD.(Hopeing someone was calling the cops.)Not to say it is right to do so, but I can not tolerate that kinda crap.

Jack

 

[frijolefrito]

2 thoughts on this.
1: Spanking a kid is legal. If the parent is smacking the kids butt... not much you can do.

2: It is right to try and stop it but don't look down on people who don't. I have been in several instances when it was clear cut abuse and neglect. Child service doesn't really do crap. I've seen some of the worst things imagineable and these people have had child services called multiple times and nothing happend.

I say something anyway just because you hope that it's just a parent were the "fun" has gotten to them and they need a reality check. Family vacations can do that.

 

[WDBRDWLK]

When I first read this thread, I thought of the network show "What would you do" ... when my DD was an intern at EPCOT in 2005 she told us stories of what she would see parents do and it floored me. One foreign lady left her sleeping child in a stroller while she went to ride Soarin... the child woke up and freaked out that mommy was gone...and he did not speak English. My DD comforted the child as best she could while security was called...when the so called mommy was done on the ride and saw security near her son she was all upset that they had intervened. What is with some parents today!

I most certainly would have called security and 9.1.1. In today's world you just never know if the child is being abused. Let the authorities make the decision. At least I would know that I did something that could have made a difference.

 

[Minuet888]

I'm a teacher and can speak from the mandated reporter side but I'm going to speak from deeply personal side. I was abused for a while by my mother. There were times I wished that someone who was watching would have done something. The child is too scared to call. My mother always told me that if I called the police they would take me, my brother and sister and send us far away and we would never see each other again. That frightened me into not saying anything. My mom was very well liked to the point no one would ever suspect her of any wrong doing. Once my mother threw me across the room and I landed on the shelving built into the wall and had a welt on my leg. It hurt so bad I was limping and my mom wrote a note to my PE tracher that I hurt my leg falling off the bed. (I was 12 and in middle school at the time) and the PE teacher eyed me and the note suspiciously and kept saying "fell off the bed? fell off the bed?" yet she never said anything.
As I grew older the abuse stopped and I realize now that my mother was sick (she had multiple heart problems and was always in the hospital) but was also mentally sick.
If someone would have called they wouldn't have sent us all away, they would have gotten my mother help, and the abuse could have stopped sooner.
So please take my personal story (I am crying as I have never really talked about this much) and call when you see it. You would be helping not only the child but the whole family as well.
My mother died of a massive rejection from a heart transplant five years previously. She died suddenly and only three weeks before I gave birth to her first and only grandchild. Had my mom gotten the help we would have been able to talk about the abuse and there wouldn't have been so many unresolved issues when she passsed. I do love my mother, just....please....call

 

[Bungle]

Was any reason given why they were beating him? (Did Security ask?)

There is no reason to beat a child.

 

[Hound 109]

There is no reason to beat a child.

This thread should be moved.

The OP posts vague info then disappears. (& I say vague because he/she states the parents had been drinking in "an area in DL" (there are no "drinking areas" in DL......plus the OP doesn't state the age or approximate age of the boy).

The thread has devolved into a discussion of corporal punishment...not a DLR discussion, (& the OP hasn't returned to give us additional info that might make it a DLR topic discussion.)


One person's "beat" may be another person's "spank". If my 11 y/o son stole a corn dog.... or pushed a cute 8 y/o girl wearing a Snow White outfit to the ground saying he doesn't like princesses or stating that she looked at him funny.....then he would be spanked. Might even "walk funny" for a few minutes afterward. (note - my kid is great....but he has misbehaved a 4-5 times in his life that warranted a "spank")

Threads that are begun by trolls who only give half the info & then disappear are as worthless as the "if it bleeds it leads" 5 oclock news shows.

 

[Gisele]

Good point Hound.

 

[alaskagirlchrissie]

This thread should be moved.

The OP posts vague info then disappears. (& I say vague because he/she states the parents had been drinking in "an area in DL" (there are no "drinking areas" in DL......plus the OP doesn't state the age or approximate age of the boy).

The thread has devolved into a discussion of corporal punishment...not a DLR discussion, (& the OP hasn't returned to give us additional info that might make it a DLR topic discussion.)


One person's "beat" may be another person's "spank". If my 11 y/o son stole a corn dog.... or pushed a cute 8 y/o girl wearing a Snow White outfit to the ground saying he doesn't like princesses or stating that she looked at him funny.....then he would be spanked. Might even "walk funny" for a few minutes afterward. (note - my kid is great....but he has misbehaved a 4-5 times in his life that warranted a "spank")

Threads that are begun by trolls who only give half the info & then disappear are as worthless as the "if it bleeds it leads" 5 oclock news shows.

Well said. Before the town's people get their pitchforks and torches out, let's sit back and consider what everyone is getting upset about. Someone who post's info from a secondhand source. And yes, I think child abuse is terrible and would turn someone in as well, if i was SURE what i had witnessed.