Mother drags her child by leash

I am outraged, but before I continue watch the attached video and then return to my commentary. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/03/woman-drags-child-on-leas_n_250033.html)

When I first watched this I watched in awe as numerous customers watched the woman drag her child through the store and merely continued shopping, one even took the time to video tape it. (I guess thanks go out to that person because the woman has since been arrested)

Melissa Catherine Smith-Means had her child attached to a book-bag leash, now as a mother of three, I have seen children leashes in the past, however, I never felt I needed one, you see I trained my children from a very young age, when we are in public there will be no clowning, no running around the store, etc. and made sure they understood the consequences if they did. Fortunately for me there were never any major issues, but even if there were, resulting to dragging your child like a common animal throughout the store is uncalled for period.

Even scarier is the fact that you clearly see several store patrons turn and look at Melissa Catherine Smith-Means as she dragged her child and did not intervene. Not even the customer services staff at the Verizon store intervened….clearly you see her carrying a store bag so they sold her products, too me it shows once again, how closed our society has become, how can we as a society be pissed at how Michael Vick treated dogs, yet stand by and watch a human being subjected to such dehumanizing treatment? The child clearly was lucky not to have been slammed into a wall, or display, yet still suffered marks on the neck from the incident (Gable, 2009).

Why I must also ask is this just a video being passed around on the internet and not being presented by the news media? I searched and the only newspaper that I could find carrying the story was the Rome News Tribute, in the town were the incident occurred. Where are the same newscasters who stalked Michael Vick and left no stone unturned investigating his treatment of dogs, when something cruel like this happens to humans?

Melissa Catherine Smith-Means has been charged with felony first-degree cruelty to children according to Gable whose article appears on the Newspaper’s website. And if you’d ask me they should allow some big burly woman in prison to attach Ms. Smith-Means to a rope and drag her around the yard a few times and see how she feels.







Just the way I see it.
Until next time,

Nay-Nay



Gable, J. (2009). Woman arrested on child cruelty charge. Retrieved on August 4, 2009 from http://romenews-tribune.com/pages/full_story?_session_id=7660ac5aa31d6d59dbde8837515c35df&hash=cb_post_comment_2382383&page_label=full_story&id=2382383&content_instance=2382383&need_to_add=true&secure_comments=true&widget=push&open=&_session_id=7660ac5aa31d6d59dbde8837515c35df