Weird Locked up for smacking my son

[The Helper]

There was nothing ominous about the knock at the door, but when I pulled it open I was confronted by four police officers and our street was thick with panda cars.

This is not a scene you see too often in our home village of Great Malvern, not even if there has been a rare burglary in the respectable part of Worcestershire where we live happily among other decent, law-abiding families.

But the police were not coming to our aid. Instead they were coming to arrest me and my husband Folke for child abuse.

Looking me straight in the eye the officer said: "We are about to arrest you for cruelty and neglect to Guy Pope."

Guy is our 11-year-old son. And my crime? Smacking him once after he had ignored my warnings to stop his temper tantrum and repeated swearing.

Locked up for smacking my son ... How a slap brought police and social services in to tear a family apart

She's a mother of three who has devoted 25 years to her nursing career. But Susan Pope says she was held in a police cell for 32 hours and lost her job just because she gave her swearing child a single slap

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[TheDamien]

This is ludicrous. A single instance of laziness should not be grounds for arrest.

 

[Skitz_24]

Social Services needs to be shot, end of story

 

[DDRtists]

Complete fail, government. The human body reacts to pain, but hey, you're not allowed to smack your kid. Lets just sit there and yell back, that will make them stop!

 

[BANANAMAN]

And they ask why children are out of control these days.

They need to be disciplined properly!!

 

[Turnip]

I wish my last name was Pope.

/offtopic

 

[Centreri]

Yay for retarded government..