What is wrong with people!?!?!?! ARGH!! ================================= Stun gun used on boy Stepfather: Device suitable disciplinary tool By ERIC HANSON Houston Chronicle SWEENY -- After his 8-year-old stepson missed his school bus earlier this week, Theodore E. Moody told the boy to walk. And to make sure he didn't dawdle, he followed the child, shocking him repeatedly with a stun gun. Child welfare officials removed the boy and three other children from Moody's home near this Brazoria County town after learning that he had been disciplining the boy with the battery-powered device. "I just can't fathom people doing something like this to their own children," sheriff's Capt. Jeff Adkins said Wednesday. District Attorney Jeri Yenne, who tested the device on herself to understand what the boy felt, said she is awaiting the outcome of an investigation before deciding whether to file charges. "This is a new one for us," said Estella Olguin, spokeswoman for Children's Protective Services. Officials at Wild Peach Elementary, in the Columbia-Brazoria school district, contacted authorities Monday after the boy arrived. Adkins said the boy told police his stepfather used the stun gun to punish him for being late to school. Moody, 27, who recently quit his job as a truck driver, acknowledged Wednesday that he had resorted to the stun gun when other disciplinary methods failed. "I felt I did the right thing," he said. "The belt didn't work; this did. It hurts less than the belt. "I've whipped his ass so hard that it left marks. That just didn't send the message and this did." Moody and his wife have two children, ages 2 and 3, in addition to the boy and his 11-year-old sister, who are her children from a previous marriage. All four are now in a foster home, Olguin said. Although parents have the right to use corporal punishment, she said, the methods must be within reason. "They felt (the stun gun) was an appropriate form of discipline," she said. "This just seems like a very cruel way to punish a child." Moody, who moved here several years ago from New York, said he had told his stepson that if he missed his school bus again he would have to walk to school, although it is several miles. "So we went for a walk and every time he slowed down, I hit him in the ass with (the stun gun)." click for complete article
this is the kind of child i would love to adopt someday...and drown him in love so that he someday might be able to trust people and view the world in a positive way. i just need some more resources...anyone need a lawyer?
