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Linda Mammola charged with assaulting an 11-year-old boy, kicking
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| him in the groin, slapping him and pulled his hair after she calims the boy bullied her son at Lake Compounce amusement park. |
07-28-04
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The Associated Press article left out the most important details on this story.
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Protective Mom allegedly slaps 11-year-old Bully at Lake Compounce
07/27/2004
SOUTHINGTON -- A Danbury woman was arrested Friday after allegedly slapping an 11-year-old boy who bullied her children during a water park incident at Lake Compounce.
The woman’s son was in the water when he inadvertently backed into the 11-year-old in the pool. The 11 year old began bullying the children by pushing and shoving the smaller boys around in the pool, twisting their arms and wrists until the boys were frantically crying. The 11 year old then pushed his full weight on the 9 year old and completely submerged him under the water.
"His behavior was unwarranted and belligerent, and I was responding because he was bigger than both my boys and could have really hurt them," Mammola said.
"I wanted him to stop, and I slapped him when he would not tell me where his parents were."
"I guess I figured that maybe if I slapped the boy, he wouldn’t do something like this again," Mammola said." I want to press charges against the boy, as does the mother of the child he almost drown.
"The woman felt her child was being bullied, and she took matters into her own hands," said Larry Piretti, spokesman for the park." It was a minor incident and there were no injuries."
Mammola said the 11-year-old boy had also punched her and kicked her in the toe, and other parents who were watching may have thought she kicked him back, but she said she was splashing the water to get the boy away from her.
Mammola was released on a $500 bond.
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I applaud how she hit the bully. He deserved it. A bully needs to be put in his place and that's exactly what he got. Hopefully the bully will think twice before abusing helpless kids again. Bullies grow up to be dangerous criminals and this attitude needs to be nipped in the bud. Personally if I saw a mother punishing a bully,I would stand and cheer
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The mother was protecting her children from this aggressive attack on her children.
Why should he get away with his barbaric behavior and continue his cruelty beating up children? We only know it will get worse as he gets older. Maybe the so called slap was in attempt to push the boy away from her son, and who wouldn't come to their child's rescue? Even if it was a light slap, does that constitute "beating someone up"? I guess this is what gets the ratings. Apparently his own parents are not disciplining him or else he would not be cavalierly making little kids cry with his cruel abuse.
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Bullying children is becoming more and more a serious problem in the United States and needs to be addressed. Just because a child is 11 years old doesn't give him the right to assault other people's children. Jessica Lawrence states in her article "Child outlaws out of control": "Criminals are becoming younger and younger as thousands of juveniles embark on mindless vandalism, theft and assault. Kids as young as 10 years old are committing a multitude of crimes..... offenses committed by kids aged 14 and under is up 13.6% this year..... Child experts say that the justice system is failing to make juveniles take responsibility for their actions and allowing them to "thumb their nose at the law" .... and this only means that they are left to commit further offenses."
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Let's great real here folks, it is the 11 year old that should be facing criminal charges. He almost broke a child's arm and nearly killed a boy by drowning him. But our law enforcement decides to arrest the woman for protecting her children. The child needs some serious reprimanding.
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I'm sure the woman is sorry for her actions, not everyone thinks clearly when a child's head is under water but I think the legal system should give her a break for giving way to her motherly instincts to protect her own child. I can't say I wouldn't have done the same in a similar situation.
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I understand that Dr. Phil takes a very strong stance against bullies. His son is going from school to school on a crusade to stop bullying once and for all. We should all join him. Children should be able to enjoy their childhood and not live in fear of being beat up by bullies, completing crushing their self esteem and sense of self. One boy even commit suicide when he couldn't take being bullied anymore. Some children cry that they don't want to go to school... the reason being they are afraid of some bully that's at school continues to threaten them and beat them up.
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Give me a break! I was a kid, we all were, and mommy wont be there all the time! The kid would have figured something out, and 99.9% chance if mommy hadnt been there, he would have been okay. I bet all the letters here were written by ...you guessed it..Mommys!
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u no wat u comment either rigt above me or the last one. your in idiot..... this is how it really happened since i was the bullied kid. me and my friend were playing and he backed into the boy. then he tried to punch my friend. then he wuz trieng to drown me. i almost passed out!!!!! then i forced myself to get up. then he grabed me again. and the nearest lifeguard looked right at me and did nothing. o yeah she got fired. and even i wuz ther when she wuz fired. anyway he did some stuff. and i went to my chair and my mom never saw the fear in my mind. and she talked to me. then he stepped on her toe. and now 4 years later she still has to go to some doctor every 2 months. i no wher this kid lives. i am never going to get back at him. if i did i would be as disgusting as he is.
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