Police Phoned After Child's Ears Pierced

[conlor]

A woman called police to a Wichita, Kan., Wal-Mart after witnessing a store employee pierce the ears of a screaming child.

Marilyn Johnson said the store employee and the girl's mother were ignoring the young girl's screams, she confronted the pair, The Wichita Eagle reported Wednesday. However, she said the mother and employee ignored her questions so she phoned police and reported the incident as child abuse.

"This little girl was about 5 years old and was crying her eyes out," Johnson said. "Her face was beet red, and she was screaming and coughing and saying things like, 'I don't want this! It hurts! Please stop!' She was grabbing her ears so the adults couldn't touch them.

"I saw a child crying and screaming and pleading for someone not to do something to her," she said. "And if that's not child abuse, I don't know what is."

However, police who arrived on the scene informed Johnson that she was in the wrong. Wichita police spokesman Gordon Bassham said neither the girl's mother nor the employee doing the piercing had broken the law.

A Wal-Mart store official said Johnson, who was issued a warning for trespassing, will no longer be allowed in the establishment.

Police phoned after child's ears pierced

[KBay84]

WTF is WRONG with these people??!!

Who are the ear rings for, the mom or her daughter??

I say one huge law suit against Wally World and the city/police department, not to mention the abuse case that should already be levied against the so-called caring Mother-farqer

My anger meter is pegged out....WTF!!!!
Isn't there ONE rational person there???

Crap....I need a valium

[conlor]

That's how I felt. The girl obviously wasn't ready to have her ears pierced. The mother should have waited until her daughter requested it. What kind of mother would want to put her child through that terror!

[Snowden]

If a child is that terrified of what's being done to her, even if it's shaking hands, then to continue doing it is abuse. Poor kid -- not even the law is helping her, and the woman who did what was right is being persecuted for it.

What is this nation coming to!

[satin_patriot]

Well, moms have the right to kill their own children, when a child would be inconvenient, so why can we expect a mother to not have the right to stab a child repeatedly with a sharp object in public when they choose?