Mom Says Stranger Slapped Her 2-Year-Old Son, Told Her to ‘Shut That’ N-Word ‘Baby Up!’
Jessica Bennett said a passenger slapped her son and called him a racial slur during a flight. (Image source: KARE-TV)
A Minneapolis mother says her 2-year-old son is traumatized after a stranger slapped him near the eye and yelled at her to “shut that [n-word] baby up!” during an Atlanta-bound flight.
The alleged incident happened on Feb. 8 during a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis. Jessica Bennett told KARE-TV her son had started to cry because of the pressure change as the plane began to descend.
Bennett said the man next to her, identified as 60-year-old Joe Rickey Hundley, of Hayden, Idaho, “reeked of alcohol” and was “belligerent” then leaned over and said “shut that [n-word] baby up!” before slapping the child. The slap, right near the boy’s eye, caused him to bleed and cry even harder.
“I could not believe he would say that and then hit him,” Bennett told KARE. “I felt like I was in another world. I was shaking.”
She received assistance from others on the flight and was reseated with her son. Hundley was later charged with simple assault and could face up to a year in jail. His attorney said he will plead not guilty.
“Hundley’s comments were racist and hateful,” Bennett said. “We have numerous questions about how a passenger could get so violently out of control as to assault a toddler.”
Hundley has been suspended from his job as president of Unitech Composites and Structures, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
“We are taking this matter seriously,” said Al Haase, president and chief executive officer of AGC Aerospace and Defense, Composites Group, Unitech’s parent company. “In accordance with our company’s personal conduct policy, we have suspended the employee pending investigation.”
The family wants Hundley brought to justice.
“If he goes unpunished it would be awful,” Jessica Bennett’s husband Josh told KARE. “We want to see this guy do some time.”
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sligresda
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:31amI know it’s wrong, but i can’t help but chuckle at some whiskey-sodden drunk so annoyed at a lil tyke that he felt he needed to slap him.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:21amMy ex-wife’s father was/is a drunk and beat all 5 of his kids all the time. I don’t remember anyone thinking it was funny. When we got married he came over drunk and started running his mouth at her and i threw him out. Told him if he ever talked like that again or tried to touch her i would beat him within inches of his life. He NEVER came around or even called again…Funny seeing a drunk abuse a child??? You are a LOSER!!!!!
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Keatonc333
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:26amhaha oh the hilarity of child abuse!
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Polarized America
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:34am.
are you sure it was the drunk guy slapping a kid that made you chuckle ..****
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drattastic
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:12pm@SLIGREADA
Everybody gets it you don’t slap babies (no brainer) .
What everybody doesn’t get is “Gallows Humor” but I do . I thought it was funny . I was also thinking along the lines of the lush should have slipped a few drops into the baby’s bottle it probably would have had the desired effect without the battery.
Before you people rip me apart think through to the likely outcome of the incident . The baby will have no lasting effects and no memory of this ever taking place . The mother will probably file a civil suit ,it sounds as if the guy has a few bucks ,she will easily win the suit . If smart she will put money into JRs college savings account if not she’ll have a good time with it.
Drunk guy will probably lose his job ,be court ordered into some sort of alcohol and anger management classes ,maybe jail time . Everyone he knows will know what he did ,don’t underestimate the price of being stigmatized . He will lose a lot of money to the court ,lawyers and the grieving mother . Yes this guy will pay dearly for his drunken stupidity.
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FlamingFartSyndrome
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:15pmYour are the product of a desensitized society
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The-Monk
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:20pm@Keatonc333
I finally figured out who you are pretending to be…..
Try this on for size; it is you. LOL
“This is Tony Pope, live from L.A., the city of fear, where the psycho vigilante killer continues his daily diet for murder. Bodies strung out. Bodies with the skins ripped off. The hearts torn from the cadavers. And just recently, King Willie, the drug lord, the vicious drug lord, found in an alley just around the corner with his head cut off, and his spinal column torn from the body. A fitting demise to the Prince of Powder.”
Remember that you get punched in the face at the end. MoFo…..
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anOpinion
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:38pm@SLIGRESDA @DRATTASTIC you guys are sick in the head. I fail to find any humor, gallows or not, in reading about a stranger hitting a crying baby in the head so hard that the baby bleeds.
I suppose you got a chuckle out of this story as well http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/02/georgia.tot.slapped/index.html
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Verceofreason
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:01pmThe drunk wouldn’t have been so ‘manly’ if her husband was there.
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dwilco77
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:09pm@ the Monk
As much as I disagree with 99% of what Keaton333 posts, I am pretty sure she was being sarcastic here, and is against child abuse. The penalty for this crime should fit the crime, and hopefully he gets the crap slapped out of him in Jail.
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obamasacommie
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:26pmThis is terrible if it’s true, that being said I’m sure it didn’t happen exactly as innocently as the story is told. I’ve been on many a flight or in a movie where the mother just sat there while her child screams and does nothing about it just lets everyone else deal with it. If you can’t control your children for the safety and conscience of everyone else as we’ll as your child you shouldn’t take it out in confined places where it is terrorizing everyone else. Again though if some turd put his hands on my two year old child, the law would be the least of their problems.
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fedupwiththebs
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:30pmYou can’t be that callous… can you??
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mrwolfy
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:36pmmaybe a drunk man should hit you. see how much you laugh then
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Jase
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:51pmThe drunk shouln’t have slapped the kid, the pilot should stick to flying the plane and let the flight attendants control the passengers.
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Keatonc333
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:12pmMonk.. am I Tony pope or King willie?
and DWILCO77 Yes, Thank You! it was definitely sarcasm!
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myrwo6
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:19pmcivilwarcometh; Why don’t you chill out. The guy meant he chuckled at how a guy could be so stupid at doing something and saying something like that. Your a little loose with the name calling and to tell you the truth, I’m chuckling at you.
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3monkeysmomma
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:33pmSome of you poor white trash have no experience flying. People with ENT issues and small children often experience a sharp intense pain in their ears as the plane descends. Its not about being a “bad parent”. My littlest once had slept the whole way on a coast-to coast flight but woke up and screamed in pain and covered his ears as we were landing. Nobody said anything to us because most people are smart enough to understand this.
3monkeysmomma
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:35pm…and if I may add, if some drunk ever slapped one of my kids for any reason, he’d be going to the hospital, not jail.
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drattastic
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:48pm@ANOPINION
Lighten up .I don’t think hitting babies is amusing ,I thought what SLIGRESDA said was amusing .
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SgtB
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:53pmWhat do you people expect to happen to a screaming child on a plane when the mother has neither the ability to quiet the child or the ability to protect herself and her child? An armed society is a polite society. An unarmed populace is a pot full of crabs scrambling over one another to get out with none succeeding.
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drattastic
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:55pmEveryone who flies should be bound and gagged . There that takes care of that problem . Next problem .Thinking like tyrant is fun and satisfying anyone who disagrees with me on this post shall have their fingers cut off (surgically of course ,I’m not an animal for Allah’s sake).
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drattastic
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:58pm@BRASIL
Wow hardcore Dude ! Something tells me you aren’t kidding.
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myrwo6
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:18pm3monkeysmomma: Poor white trash huh! Who’s racist here? I wonder. Take your poor white trash talk and go over to MSNBC website. They would love you over there.
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Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:19pm“Mom Says Stranger Slapped Her 2-Year-Old Son, Told Her to ‘Shut That’ N-Word ‘Baby Up!’”
TheBlaze … what’s an “N-Word Baby”? Is that like “autism”? Or is “n-word” one of those foreign language oddball words with the dashes and the accents? Is the “N” a silent “N” because of the dash?
Or is it something more insidious … like … POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?
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Mil-Dot
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:33pmI don’t believe he said that. It is that simple. I flat out don’t believe her story. I say not guilty. She is a coal burner and she is looking for a payout. Not buying it. There may have been a lush sitting next to her that she didn’t like so she thought she would cash in her chips. Not guilty.
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cordovamx
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:36pmthere’s nothing funny about that. Your pretty sick to even think that.
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fmbmitgt
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:56pmI know it’s wrong, but I can’t help but chuckle at some weightlifter so annoyed at a lil Blaze poster that he felt he needed to slap her.
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Zipit
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:20pmDW, DUH! Funny thing is, Keatty actually knows about child abuse first hand! Once you get used to the style of his/hers posts, it it easy to come to the conclusion that he/she was repeatedly dropped on his/her head! So there!!! Phew……
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 6:16pmMIL-DOT
I think I have to agree woth you on this. What mother thinks her two year-old baby would even remember, much less be traumatized by getting slapped. By the way, how does one slap someone so hard that they bleed? Punch, maybe, scratch, maybe, but slap? How does that make one bleed?
The story sounds fishy. Methinks she might be exaggerating a little.
The drunk man may have been beligerant and told her to **** the baby up, but I think she’s making up the N-word part and the slapping part up. The story says nothing about witnesses to the act, no pictures to show us. I think I will wait for the trial and evidence.
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Adobewalls
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 6:26pmIf the story was about you being assaulted would it be funny.
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 6:34pmVerseofReason, are you trying to imply that ladies should not be able to travel without their husbands? The story doesn’t even say that he wasn’t there… nowadays, you have to pay extra to sit together on a plane… perhaps she was to cheap (like I am) to pay extra to have everybody sit together.
I’ve traveled several times without my husband, although I usually drive. Sometimes dh will go on a business trip for a couple of months and I figure that I might as well take the kids camping or something and go visit my family. Other times, I travel by myself because dh doesn’t want to spend as much time with my family as I do, so he leaves early; or maybe I need to go to a funeral or something and dh has to work or we don’t want to spend the extra money for him to go.
Just because dh might have other things to do doesn’t mean that I don’t have the right to take my kids somewhere. If you’re trying to imply that she doesn’t have a husband, my guess is that her husband is in that picture up above. The kid looks a little darker than the guy, but that doesn’t mean that the child wasn’t adopted.
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horseman43
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 7:02pmThat’s got to be one of the ugliest kids I’ve ever seen.
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dwilco77
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 7:12pm@ SEANW
somebody needs to slap you until you bleed. What a worthless excuse for a man you are
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Lowgo1981
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 7:18pmSLIGRESDA..i too got a little chuckle and the rest of you can kiss my a. s. s. if u dont like that
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sligresda
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:24pmWow, such anger. to make sure everyone knows, my opinion of kids is that i like them, i just cant eat a whole one. (and that should sufficiently stir the pot a little bit more).
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jamesmac10
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:09pmYour sense of humor needs a tuning. I suggest you keep your thoughts to yourself until then. It could do you harm to post words like that. That drunk old goat lost his job and is now a national pariah for not keeping his words and actions to himself.
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tj1961
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:25pmANY drunk who lays a hand on my children will find it will REALLY SUCK to be them!!!
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00shitbrick
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:04amso hard that he bleeds…..lol. what riveting reporting. the woman was helped to another seat….that is all….lol. jeez, the propaganda machine is hard at work.
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Zipit
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:31amWhile there are always exceptions, is there anyone here who is being critical of a little humor, that can truly say that you’ve never been pushed to the point where you “weren’t” at least thinking, about strangling some noisy brat, and maybe the parent also?
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betterpart
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:34amWhat’s so funny about an adult attacking a child….mope.
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RIDEMODELS
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:42amI have Spanish friends that use the N word more than anyone I have ever heard my entire life…..But they hate whitey too.
Drunk people should be given a sedative before boarding.
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Jase
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:56amSheesh, apparently brazen humor is a thing of the past. I thought all the miserable cranks were over at yahoo. Lighten up, people.
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naughtycal
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:09amYou should be able to get an option of a baby free flight. You pay extra for a ticket for a no babies or young children allowed flight. Anyone whose been stuck for 6-8 hours by a screaming child would pay extra to never have to go through that again. As for the man racial comment and physical altercation someone needs to put a beat down on him for that. If it were my child I would have been arrested .
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SuttonShimai
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 8:46amI once flew with a bad head cold and descending down for the landing produced unbearable pain in my ears because my ears wouldn’t pop. I was quietly in tears and the flight attendant noticed me. He figured out the problem immediately and he said if I had told him ahead of time, he could have let me have some sudafed. Obviously that was years ago and wouldn’t happen now. After I landed I could barely hear for a half hour or more before the pressure in my ears finally stabilized.
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:02amGood for him – He should have slapped the mother while he was at it !
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linearnonlinear
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:12amSo let me get this…..When this person (Her Father) started making noise that annoyed you…..You had enough……Wanted to beat him……Told him to Shut Up…….And Threw him out……
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kadster01
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:36amI’m with ANONYMOUS T. IRRELEVANT. Why not keep our knees still and wait till all the facts come out, shall we?
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G-WHIZ
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:29pmI have been in trains and planes which have [ferile] bratts runnng all around and screeming for the whole trip!! These Parents should be fined and jailled for not teaching them anything at all!! This is HARRASSMENT for the many-others onthe train or plane!! They kick and punch and push everyone who is “in their way”!!
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nichevo
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 1:05pmI’m sorry you find that amusing Sligresda. What I find amusing is the fact that the man lost his job as a result of his racist and boorish behavior. Now that’s funny….Justice can be sweet!
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EgbertThrockmorton
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:09pmI am afraid that I would also be arrested and charged in the severe beating of ANYONE, I saw abusing a child, especially not one of their own, on any flight.
Children and adults have ear problems all the time on flights, striking a child and one that isn’t yours gets you a severe beating in my book. I would gladly take the arrest to keep someone from abusing a child, especially on a commercial aircraft.
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FreeCarolJoy
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 3:48pmI don’t find it funny at all on any level.
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CarolinaGirl
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:10amI feel extremely sorry for little ones who have piercing pain in their ears when descending on a flight. The crying doesn’t bother me ….. knowing the child is hurting bothers me. The man who slapped the child should go to jail and lose his job.
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TruthTalker
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:22amWhere were the men on this flight and why did this guy not take a beating for slapping a child?
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THXll38
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:48amBecause it is 2013 and we live is a world full of PC sissies. If someone would have hit him for doing that, they would be charged the same as the guy that slapped the kid. It is indeed a sad state of affairs.
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THX-1138
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:28pmI’d have crippled this idiot before anyone could have stopped me. And I’m betting there wouldn’t be one “witness”. “I think he fell down officer, he was drunk you see…”
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tonypro
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:29pmThis story would not normally be on the front page.
It’s just more propaganda to be used to further divide our nation.
I can’t believe it’s so freakin obvious.
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Mil-Dot
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:39pmI agree with TonyPro. This is flat out propaganda BS. And everyone is lapping it up as fast as they can.
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Xyskalla
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:03pmWe’re only hearing one side of the story. Shouldn’t we hear the other side before racing to judgment?
Does everybody forget how the Tea Party was also said to have been hurling racist insults? But even after Breitbart $100,000 challenge, hundreds of camera phones that recorded the 2010 rally failed to turn up anything.
If he’s guilty, then punish him. But please, let’s make sure he’s guilty first.
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Xyskalla
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 12:14pmI find it odd that the child was said to have been slapped hard enough to make him bleed, but there’s no mention of a trip to the hospital. Is this an oversight on the part of news story, or did they actually not have the child examined?
A slap hard enough to make you bleed is a pretty impressive slap. I’ve never been slapped that hard. And if somebody slapped my child near the eye hard enough to make him bleed, you’d better believe I’d be rushing to the emergency room.
And are there any witnesses to the alleged slapping?
Something about this story just doesn’t feel right.
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AnimalsAsLeaders
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:27pm@XY
Want proof that some tea party members are racist? Read the comments section of half the stories on the Blaze… I’ll be expecting my check in the mail ;)
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Tom21773
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:58amThe father of the child has an ethical parental responsibility to resolve this issue himself.
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mayancalendar2012
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:19amI’ll go one further, and say any MAN on that flight has the responsibility to sort that creep out. I swear to God, had I been on that flght, there would have been two of us getting arrested.
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dwilco77
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:09pm@ Red Meat
I always find it amazing that someone could hate a 2 year old. You were one once also. It takes a weak-minded, individual that is far below the privilege of being considered a man that would not stand up for a 2 year old being struck by a grown man. Re-consider your priorities, or continue on being a the weasel that you are.
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fdraiden
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:02pm@redmeat…someone should slap the s–t out of you and replace it with some brains!
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sprouter.q
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:57amHe should also spend a few months in jail for A and B! I spank my children but good lord a smack to the face?! The kid was also bleeding! WOW what a jerk!!
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hatchetjob
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:04pm“Allegedly” bleeding.
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Mil-Dot
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 4:53pmExactly, “allegedly”. I flat out don’t believe her. Sorry. She had a baby with a black man and she has been indoctrinated in the way of the fast buck. She is a liar. I want to see it on tape before I believe her story. Not buying it.
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sprouter.q
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:50amIt is only a story because of a racial slur. Last time I checked it is ok to say stupid and mean things. He slapped a child out of anger which was completely out of bounds because it was not his child! His punishment should be a big fine.
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Keatonc333
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:28amslapping a child out of anger is completely out of bounds PERIOD! not just because he was not his son.
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stacy4422
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:11pmYou know when I was eight years old and started playing outside with other kids my father told me If another adult had to whip my **** for acting up that I would get it When I got home! I am all for the old saying It takes a vilage to raise a kid, But this is way out line.
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A Hoosier Says
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 3:36pmNo, it’s a story because a grown man assaulted a toddler. And you think he should have only gotten a fine? You wouldn’t think that if a stranger slapped YOU or YOUR child, now would you?
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checkingbothsides
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 2:44pmA big fine? For assault? Man, I’m glad you don’t make the rules. This racist POS should see jail time. Period.
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DontStopBelieving
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:48amOh come on….this guy is a victim, sheesh, it’s not his fault. He was abused as a child which caused him to drink himself into oblivion, he’s not responsible for his actions………/sarcasm off…..
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zman173rd
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:48amI was on the last leg of a combined 17 hour flight last week. Called my wife and said one more connection and i’ll be home. She said take a nap, you’ll need the rest when I get hold of you ;) The flight had the same problem with a 2 year old right behind me. No one got any sleep. You know the little boy was hurting from the air pressure changes and the badly bouncing aircraft from turbulances. So what do you do? Act like a normal person and cope.
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smokie
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:12pmMy mother flew with her grandchildren when they ere that age. She always gave them a bottle at take- off, the swallowing action popped their ears so there wouldn’t be any pain. It ‘s the same as chewing gum. They never cried on the plane.
I don’t condone slapping and calling names, but I wish mothers would have a little more empathy for their children. The kid had ears, same as she, and if her ears got pressurized, wouldn’t her child’s also?
Many parents today expect kids to be born, then off and running, like reptiles on nature shows, no care needed.
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truthnstuff
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:31pmThe bottle is a good idea. When I was little I always flew with my best bud Jack, Jack Daniels, and never had a problem. JUST KIDDING.
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XaviorOnassis
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 5:20pmThe bottle or pacifier trick doesn’t work for all children. It isn’t the magic trick you think it is. Sometimes a kid is just going to scream and the parents (who don’t want to hear it any more than you do) have exhausted their bag of tricks.
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 6:39pmThen again, not all babies take bottles… if the mom was breastfeeding and tried to do so on the plane, she’d probably have someone after her for that too, or tell her to feed her baby in the bathroom.
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IndyGuy
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:44amThis should have been the outcome…http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/09/heres-video-of-the-infamous-drunk-airline-passenger-who-had-to-be-bound-using-duct-tape/
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smokeysmoke
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:40amhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-woman-fatally-shot-on-day-sister-hears-obama-speak-of-gun-violence-20130216,0,3001041.story did anyone read this… second time???
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IndyGuy
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:51amYeah….I wonder how many distant cousins of the girl that heard Obama speak also got killed…How about just friends??? Idiots running Obama’s propaganda machine(MSM) will stop at nothing to try to play on the low information voter…
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VanceUppercut
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:06am@IndyGuy
Low information voters? Like the people who actually believed there were going to be “death panels”?
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IndyGuy
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:33amHey Vancy…You’re an idiot..
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:40amVance There won’t be a panel where each person goes before to beg for treatment,no that’s too inefficient the government will simply have some bureaucrats determine weather or not the service is covered. The government will show the soon to be extinct private health insurance companies how to deny claims and they’ll deny millions and the cost will skyrocket,remember we’re dealing with the government and they’re acting in the governments best interest not ours. That law is also a job killer and to prove my point just wait until the law is fully implemented and you’ll see for yourself.
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IndyGuy
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:48amLOL….Just mention low information voter and he appears within 15 minutes…
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markg44
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:56pm@ Vance, it is you who lack the information so maybe before you make comments about something you do not understand, think twice before you spouts lie’s, your mouth overloads your backside with untruths.
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DZ-015
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:32amIf the witnesses can be rounded up to testify, this guy wont have to worry about supporting himself after losing his job. He’ll be eligible for Social Security once he gets out of prison.
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jungle J
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:30amPeople are tired of noisy and defective children. I know I try to find places to avoid them. No reason to strike another person though…especially someone that can’t defend themselves. DON”T HATE.
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sta
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:18amDefective?
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:29amSTA Jungles tendencies to favor eugenics is apparent eh?
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Gonzo
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:39pmGots to teach ‘em young. Right Jungle?
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jungle J
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:27amdrunks and dopers have destroyed our culture.They produce children of the corn types with so many genetic variances…there are very few normal people under 40. Why do you think meds are so prevalent? The mentally defective and the degenerate dominate society.Look at China the “opiods” are the rule as persons.
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Stoic one
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:47amActually “drunks and dopers”, as a statistical sub-group, are 10% MORE intelligent than the population at large. Our government, whether by design or incompetence, has made drugs & alcohol more appealing to the masses. It is the old ‘give them bread & circuses’ routine.
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glckgrl
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:22amIt nauseates me that he was only charged with a simple assault. What about child abuse? Breach of the peace? Public intoxication? Hate crime? I have 100% compassion and support for substance abusers IN RECOVERY (who would not do such a thing), but not for someone in active addiction. I pray this man gets help, even if it is mandated after his release from prison.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:39amIf they stopped the sale of alcohol on all flights that would go a long way in reducing violence and the idiot that assaulted that child should do some time for sure.
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:47amHi Slayer –
I disagree with your suggestion of banning alcohol sales on flights. I enjoy a cocktail or two on flights, especially the longer ones I take. Why should law-abiding citizens, who do not resort to beligerence and violence be penalized for so few idiots who get drunk and hit babies on airplanes?
That argument, is like banning guns to prevent crime.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:04amLakehartwellsailor You make a good point there it’s just that something has to be done to ensure the safety of the passengers,maybe if they knew when to cut someone off that might help.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:31amLakehartwellsailor You make a good point there it’s just that something has to be done to ensure the safety of the passengers…… WOW slayer you sounded just like a liberal. I think SLAYERS account has been hacked….
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 10:47amCivilwar You left off the last half of my sentence,they just need to know when to cut someone off before they get too hammered. Also you don’t have a constitutional right to consume alcohol on an airplane,it’s up to the airline if it wants to provide it or not.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:15amSLAYER i was only playing around… I don’t think people should be drinking on flights period…
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:15amSlayer –
In my observations, flight crew are far more likely to cut you off….the problem is the bartenders in airport bars; I have never seen anyone get cut off there. And as someone else posted regarding this story, there are air travelers who, especially if their flight is delayed, spend hours at the bar. By the time they board their flight, they are hammered. Now the flight crew are pretty good at picking out those passengers and I see them “artfully” avoid serving them alcohol; most times though, they make it clear that they will not serve those individuals a cocktail.
People need to be responsible for their own behaviour; but by the same token, the bar tenders need to excercise some professional judgement.
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Cronpolis
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:27pmI am guessing that the drunk guy is African American and has no problem calling this little boy a N word. So black on black crime is okay with the DOJ, but if it was a white person calling this little boy a N word I am sure they would be all about the hate crime and every other possible charges they could put against this abuser.
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 6:48pmNo, they showed a picture of the guy in the video. He’s an old white guy.
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piiguissa
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:16amI would never defend anyone in child abuse case but, he is right up there in age and I have a parent with Alzheimer’s. One of the first sign of this disease can be aggression. My mother went from being the sweetest woman in the world to an aggressive one. She hit another person on the face, unprovoked. It was devastating for everyone because we did not know she was ill. I’ve been hit by her a few times, and sometimes she would grab whatever she could find to hit someone. Now she is in a advanced stage in a wheelchair, and looking back now, she was already sick when she hit that person. If we knew she was sick, we would have found help for her instead of dealing with that ourselves.
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 4:54pmYou have a point. My grandma has gotten angry at times, perhaps at her situation, as she has become no longer able to take care of herself.
If that was the case with this guy, he probably shouldn’t be in the position to be the president of a company though…
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dodgedart1966
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:21amA & B on a child?
Joe Rickey…Your new address is the county jail, 1 year, no plea bargains available.
But we have K-Y, all you need.
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:05amWhoaaa…unbelievable. He was waaaay out of line. What has happened to common decency in this world?
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:19amSad to say for the most part its long, long gone.
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:05amThis guy had to be out of his mind ,I’m guessing the decent messed with blood alcohol
In his body. Never the less ,he probably will do time and loose his job as ‘president of the company ‘(currently suspended) he works for. To bad we cant add a old fashion ass whipping to his demise.
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ares338
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:03amFirst of all…I would have beaten that basturd half to death then and there and then I would have really hurt him. Now, it’s going to be…all whites are racists all over again. This s.h.i.t never ends! Next!
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:33amARES
They will but look at all the comments on here. I would say that most whites feel the same way.
Judge a person by character and not color and beat the $hit out of @ss holes like Joe Rickey Bobby Hundley.
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Keatonc333
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:32amwow ares… please please never have children!
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Fubared
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 7:28pmDitto lil keatie. Get them tubes tied into a nice sock monkey.
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Xanderson
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 7:59pmLol Fubared! Or into a jaunty balloon animal :o)
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Joshua81
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:32amtoo late, that kind does nothing BUT have kids.. more money from the government the more mouths you have to feed. So, basically, they are still a whore, they still get paid for it… workin on your back, poopin out the kiddos, selling your food stamps so you can put rims on your whip.
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Fubared
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:03amJihad Jerk approves of the baby slapping action and would have back handed mom on general purposes. Wiki says, in this case the belligerence was necessary.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:02amWhat’s an N word baby? Honestly this PC stuff is idiotic,use the damn word and stop this candy@ss PC stuff. As for the drunken fool who struck that child I would’ve knocked his dentures out if I had witnessed that. I thought Biden had air force II at his disposal so why is he flying commercial?
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Marine25
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:57amI think Joe Rickey’s exact quote was “shut that *******-baby up, I’m trying to hear me some Glenn Beck here!”
Do they get GBTV in prison?
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:04amSince you’re in prison for child rape you should know if you get GBTV there dumb@ss.
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glckgrl
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:18amDoesn’t your personal experience ring a bell–Jerry Springer is the most popular prison show, as told to me by people there, whom I assisted through my j. o. b. I doubt you are a Marine, because they are more respectful!
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jungle J
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:35amYou never made it through boot camp so don’t call yourself a Marine. have some respect for real people.
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barber2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:38amGLC: The Trolls like to choose names to mock or to disrespect . ( Remember the Jason Levin attempts to discredit the Tea Party ? ) Like Troll ” Supra Patriot ” who hates America and conservatives. Sort of another version of our radical Democrats twisted ” redistribution, investment, or misallocation of wealth !” The Left is big on Lies and word games…
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Marine25
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:08pmYeah, there is no racism here at the Blaze.
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DLV
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:08pmMarine- no there really isn’t unless you count the racism on the trolling liberal side.
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lunky
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:54amThey would have been taking me away in handcuffs as I would have beat the man simple for striking my child.
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jkwinters64
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:01amYou got that right. He wouldn’t even have to touch my kid/grandkid, just using that word I would punch him square in the face.
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red_white_blue2
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:11amAgreed! I’d tell the cops with pride what I did to the ******* and why! Pieces of **** that fly today. Bring back the days of flight from the 70′s and before when it was actually a privilege to fly, you had to have “money”, and with it, u didn’t have circus animals to contend with.
I’d beat the living **** out of him!
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:54amSo, if the guy does not get punished, does that mean airlines can create new promotional flier to compete with each other?
Imagine the comedy story line:
Apprenhensive for the next long business trip? Afraid that alcohol is not enough entertainment? Come fly with us, we have a “slap your mamma and her kid special”?
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The man should be banned from flying on ALL airlines in addition to what ever he gets punished for?
Do you want to fly with him?
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:52amJoe Rickey Hundley?
I’m a southener but (Joe Rickey Hundley) More like Joe Ricky Bobby.
If I had been on that flight and saw that Joe Rickey Bobby Hundley would not have had a good day.
No sir would not have had a good day at all.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:56amOLDSURFRAT, LOL, when I first read the guy’s name my first thought was he would make a great character for Will Ferrell to play. Right up his alley.
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redfish52
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:52amI fly a lot and see this type stuff a good bit. I sure this idiot was drunk when he got on the plane. I have seen guy’s in airport bars drinking for hours prior to a flight. At some point the server should say you’ve had enough but do not. I think a good punishment along with what he will be dealt by the court would be a lifetime ban from flying.
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loriann12
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:03amI’m sure he’s going to use being drunk as a defense, and possibly the excuse that they shouldn’t have even let him on the plane, so it’s not his fault. I’ve wanted to slap/spank someone else’s child before, but know it’s not my place. Like for instance when my dog barked at the neighbor’s 4 year old daughter and her dog, and she shouted, “That’s my dog, PUTA.” But crying kids go with flying, they don’t understand the pain of pressure changes.
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:44amAs a weekly flyer myself, I have not seen any “remarkable” incidents of drunks being a problem on a flight, and I have been doing this for some 14 years now. That’s not to say I have not seen some drunks acting like ****** on a flight, but never seen an assault take place. I guess I have been lucky.
I will admit, it is annoying when a child is screaming their heads off on a flight; but what can you do? It’s going to happen and you might as well just expect it and get some ear plugs to resort to. Personally, children crying is not my greatest pet peeve….it’s the kid behind you constantly kicking your seat that drives me up the wall.
Now, I am assuming that there are other passengers that can back up this charge that the “N” word was thrown out there, but even if he didn’t use the “N” word, the guy crossed the line by simply saying “shut that baby up”. There is little that a parent can do, so we all have to endure it. In this instance, the plane was in descent to the destination, so the crying wouldn’t have to be tolerated for much longer.
This guy, is a definate loser and I hope it costs him a lot of money, and some jail time.
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Mike76
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 7:17pmSorry, but I sincerely doubt you see this “a good bit.” Most airlines won’t let someone that drunk on the plane. Delta is one such airline, and they are trained to spot potential D&D’s. But even so, I still doubt what this guy is alleged to have done happens very often. No matter though, as you were not on the flight in question and did not see what happened THERE.
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Maximus_Delta
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 8:47amWhere is the proof?
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TRILO
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 11:54amYou are an idiot.
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scruffycat
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:04pmWe are supposed to believe this story is true just because the Huffington Post or whoever serves up these stories to The Blaze says it is? PROOF is required indeed. There is probably a whole other side to this story and hopefully a good lawyer can turn these tables and bring it out. If he bashed that kid there was probably a good reason, like it was screaming in his ear like some kind of poo pitching monkey or something.
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truthnstuff
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 2:52pmScruffy, you make a god point. We have been conditioned to react based on emotional pandering, child, n-word, disadvantaged, etc. I am sure there is more to this than a drunk hits 2 year old and his head is bleeding. If he hit him that hard, with his fist, the damage would have most likely required medical care. If he hit him with a bottle or something else, to cause bleeding, than there would have been more serious charges. We can also jump to conclusions about the mothers proclivities when selecting breeders.
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Brooke Lorren
Posted on February 17, 2013 at 6:56pmBecause you can figure out a lot about someone by looking at their picture… if you watch the video, it seems fairly clear that the guy in the picture is her husband.
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