Bruised child goes to school wearing T-shirt declaring she received a ‘good woopin’

[Liberal_in_LA]

A Florida child showed up at school covered in bruises and wearing a T-shirt proclaiming that she was a bad student and deserved a “good woopin.”

“I currently have all F’s in all of my classes. I am not aloud to have a boyfriend no time soon,” the hand-written scribble on the shirt read. “So back off before I get another good woopin like I got last night.”


Teachers immediately noticed the badly beaten child and her shirt, and police were notified. The girl’s mother, Melany Joyce Alexander, 31, was arrested and charged with child abuse. The child, whose name and age hasn’t been released by authorities, is in the custody of her stepfather.

The child’s neck, arms and back were covered in marks and bruises. “She beat the child with a belt, and the belt had some sort of metal on it,” Hernando County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Denise Moloney told the Washington Post. “The injuries were severe enough that there was bruising the next day. That’s severe.”
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2015/02/25/bruised-child-goes-to-school-wearing-t-shirt-declaring-she-received-a-good-woopin/

[nolabear]

1. Dear God. That poor child. One can only hope the shirt was a warped cry for help.

Poor baby.

[frylock]

4. the shirt was likely concocted by the piece of shit "mother" as another way..

to shame and humiliate the girl.

[nolabear]

15. Maybe so but it takes serious ignorance or a wish to stop.

I'm not trying to exonerate anything. But if she didn't know sending a child to school bruised and essentially wearing a confession is likely to get her in serious trouble then she's too dumb to understand the evening news.

[randys1]

2. I wonder if the parent is a born again kreeschun

[MADem]

6. The parent is plainly mentally ill.

No one in their right mind would do such an horrific thing.

Couldn't help but notice that Authoritarian Mom can't spell "allowed"--so who is she to be so cruel and uncompromising?

[jmowreader]

12. I don't think Authoritarian Mom spelled it

Looks to me like a three-part punishment.

First, Evil Mother beat her child severely with a metal-studded belt.

Then she handed her kid a t-shirt and a Sharpie and ordered her to write this statement.

And finally, she forced her daughter to wear the shirt to school the next morning.

[MADem]

17. Entirely possible.

Not the parent of the year, certainly. She needs help to go along with the punishment she'll be getting. That kid needs a safe place to live free of any more "woopins."

[cyberswede]

3. Jesus Christ.

[frylock]

5. I'm certain that Melany Joyce Alexander will tell you that she was whooped as a child..

and it in no way effected her negatively. Just like all the assholes that comment on Adrian Petersen claim that they are perfectly grounded despite getting whooped, all the while calling everyone fukcing p*****s and politically correct libt**ds.

[Iggo]

10. That's my favorite one. "I was whupped and look how I turned out."

You grew up to be a person who beats the shit out of children is how you turned out, fuck-o.

[procon]

7. Yikes! This poor girl didn't sudden have poor grades pop up overnight.

After a whole semester, did the incompetent birth-woman just recently sober up long enough to notice her kid was having problems in school? Looking at the written example of her own educational accomplishment, I doubt grades were the real reason she abused the girl.

[Blue Owl]

8. FFS those parents should not be "aloud" (sic) to have children

[sunnystarr]

9. There was more on the back of the t-shirt

The back of it reads: “So unless you are helping me with this goal … back off!!! My eating French fries and being a social butterfly is over because I know why my parents send me to school. I now know the IMPORTANCE of my education. I will learn. I will listen to my teachers and be respectful, at all times. I will do these things because I am failing (redacted) due to my social life. Want to be my friend : ) Help me by not!!! (redacted)”

Nienhuis also told the station that Alexander admitted to “crossing the line.”

Alexander is forbidden from having contact with the child.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/24/florida-mother-sends-badly-bruised-child-to-school-wearing-t-shirt-proclaiming-good-woopin/

[yuiyoshida]

11. AND then there is SEAN HANNITY

[valerief]

13. Florida. nt

[alp227]

14. this mother is probably projecting her incompetence on her child. nt

[GreatGazoo]

16. handwriting analysis would look at the inconsistent

capitalization as a sign of a mind with shifting and arbitrary rules.

The heavy underlines are authoritarian, scolding and visually mimic the whipping.

The word spacing and especially the stacking of line on line suggest trouble with boundaries. The words get bigger to fill the remaining space as the writer runs out of stuff to say -- this change of scale to fill up of space is desperation for control.

Misspelling "allowed" betrays the writer's education level.

And finally, writing in the voice of the child (rather than her own) denies personhood and a voice to the child.