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Public Opinion Says Punishing Kids With Hot Sauce Is Child Abuse [INFOGRAPHIC]
SodaHead Infographics
2011/08/25 22:00:00
Earlier this week we showed SodaHeads a video clip of Jessica Beagley, a 36-year-old Anchorage woman, forcing her 8-year-old child to keep hot sauce in his mouth and take cold showers as punishment for behavioral problems at school.
The video is from a November episode of "Dr. Phil," so you may have seen it before, but Beagley was just recently charged with misdemeanor child abuse because of her actions.
Here's an except from the original "Hot Sauce Mom" story:
Most SodaHeads thought the hot sauce treatment was way out of line, but there are always dissenters. So it's time to take a deeper look into the demographics behind our results and see who they were.
Let's dive.
The video is from a November episode of "Dr. Phil," so you may have seen it before, but Beagley was just recently charged with misdemeanor child abuse because of her actions.
Here's an except from the original "Hot Sauce Mom" story:
She could get up to a year in prison along with her $10,000 fine, and The Anchorage Daily News reports it only took the jury one day to decide she was guilty.
Henry Paul, a Mount Sinai psychiatrist, told ABC News, "The stun -- the shock -- the acute anxiety can also lead to [a] long-term type of post-traumatic stress disorder that we often see in criminals who are incarcerated.
Most SodaHeads thought the hot sauce treatment was way out of line, but there are always dissenters. So it's time to take a deeper look into the demographics behind our results and see who they were.
Let's dive.
Top Opinion
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harley oldman 2011/08/25 22:49:16
+28Where I was raised ( South Louisiana) they punished Kids by taking the Hot Sauce away from them.
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PARENT-I'll wash your mouth out with soap.
CHILD-I'll blow bubbles out my ass.
I'm not saying soap's OK. The hot sauce is at least edible. I've seen one post from a guy who claimed his doctor advised using vinegar.
But, when you really get down to it, the entire point is to groom them to be productive citizens who stay out of jail--unless it's for a good cause.
My two and a half year old grandson eats jalapeno's peppercinis and hot cherry peppers [the red ones] just like his grandpa.
It might be child abuse if I deprived him of them when Im munching on them in front of him though.
The only lessons a child learns from that sort of angry parenting is to distrust adults and to find better ways to lie and to avoid them. Sort of like the way our government is treating small businesses.
No plane hit that building.
I consider crazed conspiracy theorists like you as just more collareral damage from 9/11. Your obsessions with it have consumed your life.