From the San Fransisco Chronicle: We like to think that adults are good role models, showing our
growing and impressionable children the difference between right and
wrong. Kids tease and bully each other on the playground and adults are
supposed to help children learn that this behavior is cruel, mean and
intolerable. Adults should be setting good examples, right?
Unfortunately, in this weird and messed-up world (that’s also full of
bright spots, though not in this story), adults often let us down and
behave poorly. That’s especially the case with one father in East
Sparta, Ohio. William Bailey, 43, and his son mocked a 10-year-old girl
with cerebral palsy by walking with a limp as she got off a yellow
school bus.
The mother of the girl who was teased caught the horrible moment on tape and shared it with 19 Action News. Trisha Knight told the Cleveland news station that Bailey often mocks her daughter and her children are afraid of the man.
“They don’t want to play outside,” Knight told Action News. They don’t want to sleep in their bedroom.”
Bailey has a record and “was found guilty of aggravated menacing in a separate case.” Knight says she has heard gunshots fired from his home.
All of that said, there are two sides to this story. Knight and
Bailey are apparently involved in a neighborhood feud and both have
filed complains with the prosecutors office. We don’t know Bailey’s side
of the story because he’s refusing to talk to the media. When a
reporter approached him getting into his car, he slammed the door and
sped off.
No matter, the bottom line here is that no adult should EVER tease a child and encourage his own son to do the same. http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/10/04/unbelievably-cruel-father-mocks-girl-with-cerebral-palsy/ Hopefully the son of the idiot dad will be able to get his act together.
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I hope the entire country reads about this "being" and his child and took a moment to view the video entitled; "Man Caught On Tape Teasing Disabled 10-Year-Old Girl."
ReplyDeleteAnother example of the daily abuse and bullying that people, with no compassion and mercy, put others through. There is so much that the national media only reports a fraction. I fear that there are so many reports that we, as a society, are growing immune to the serious damage being done to innocent and harmless children and adults. It is epidemic and growing. Little children are being "bullied to death." A few years back little Phoebe Prince, a high school student, could no longer take the bullying so she decided to hang herself and did. There are regular reports that it extends beyond the students and now teachers have joined in. Schools across America write a "zero-tolerance" policy against bullying, as they do for drugs; but they fail to enforce it. I read these accounts. I have set my "Google Alerts" to these keywords and my mailbox is full to over-flowing. I also read the posted comments from other readers. Invariably, there are a few who state that we have raised a generation of children with no guts and no spine, a bunch of wieners and wimps. Those were the good old days, times and methods have changed. No, we can no longer by-pass the Principal and take the school's bully, who swaggered about the playground to intimidate and punch the little kids, to the back of the school after the 3:00 bell. The bully, at heart a real coward, would rarely accept the invitation to show-up. When he did, with his two sidekicks, a good kidney punch a la Floyd Patterson would stop it for good. It has extended and grown through the wonders of the "social media." Was it last year when the Rutgers student took a flying leap off the GW Bridge? His roommate had made a video of the young man with another man. This was pounced upon by the LBGT community and their dot orgs not to stop bullying but to further their agenda and the cash flow into their non-profits. Plain and simple, bullying is bullying no matter the manifestation. This person, (I cannot call him a "man" as man has a connotation of maturity;"Now son, you are a man.."), deserves the benefit of my good old Louisville Slugger. The impact would only be short term so is it worth a few months in jail for assault? We must, we the people must put a stop to this. People have the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I have followed the groups in America who are working to stop this national outrage of bullying. If we cannot do it alone we need to support their work. One, whose hard work I have appreciated for a long time is Focus Adolescent Services, www.Focusas.com/ There are others, decide and then send them a fat check to support their hard work if you agree. This goes beyond written laws and I deeply feel that we, the citizens of our respective states and of the United States must save the innocent children.