Dad turns in own kids for bullying

[TalkingDog]

http://www.qt.com.au/story/2011/03/18/ipswich-dad-turns-in-kids-bullying-crime/

AN IRATE Ipswich father has marched his two children to a police station to have them charged with assault after catching them attacking another teen.

The father, who did not want to be identified, was so enraged with his kids that he sold his 17-year-old son's recently purchased car and 15-year-old daughter's horse as further punishment.

The pair admitted to picking on their bullying victim because he wore glasses, the same reason their father said he was bullied as a child.

The father said following the assault, which left the victim with a broken jaw, his two children would face court next month.


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Now if this were in America and your kid was a boy scout who hanged a dog and beat it to death, you'd have it covered up, then run for President.

[bettyellen]

1. It was an assault- a broken jaw? screw those kids

[mainer]

2. Notice it happened in Australia

Too many American kids are too coddled and worshiped by their parents to suffer any such punishment.

[JoeyT]

11. The Australian legal system and police are a little different too.

In Australia these kids aren't going to get repeatedly tasered or shot on the way in and brought before a judge that's getting kickbacks to farm them off with a maximum sentence to a for profit jail where they'll be beaten and raped by the guards.

I'm sure that's a factor in the decision to not do this kind of thing here.

[superduperfarleft]

14. +1. And it kind of speaks to a certain level of privilege when people

think that calling the police on their kids for a relatively minor thing is even a good option.

[Cid_B]

22. Must be nice...

:eyes:

[Nevernose]

25. With respect to the US juvenile system...

It depends on where you live. Where I live, I could feel confident that if I brought my kids in, the worse that would happen is that authorities wouldn't do enough. Of course, I also used to work in the juvenile courts here, so I've got first hand experience. There are some places that I would be seriously hesitant. And my children's skin color would have to be an issue of serious consideratiom in the US, too.

[seabeyond]

12. it happens often in u.s. we had a thread where a parent did it with cop and duers cried foul

sayng too harsh for the child. made him cry. i hear often parents resort to this. iti s an absurd statement saying american dont do, as if you have any clue.... and lumping parents as coddling too much.

[Posteritatis]

18. Hell, schools around here tend to punish the victims instead of the bullies. (nt)

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[madmax]

4. When my son was about 7

he stole a pen knife from a local store. After a 2 day investigation by myself and his grandmother we learned how he had gotten the knife.

I took him to the store and asked to speak to the manager and had my son tell him what he did and return the knife. He's 40 now and has told me that he never forgot that and he's never stolen anything in his life, again. He would do the same with his kids. :)

[malaise]

6. You're a great dad

One of my nephews took his dad's credit card and ordered some Timberland shoes about a decade ago he was 14 at the time. Unfortunately for him the package arrived when he was at school and his dad was at home. His dad told him that he was going to call the police to report him - he begged big time and asked his dad to send the shoes back. He has grown up to be a wonderful man and has never been dishonest from that day.

[madmax]

8. I'm a Mom and a Grama,

:bounce: max is my Yorkie and I'm mad LOL

[malaise]

10. LOL

My bad grama :D :fistbump:

[madmax]

24. No problem

:fistbump: Not your average granny :hippie:

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Good on you. :) n/t

[seabeyond]

9. yup. nt

[joshcryer]

27. I stole an apple when I was a kid. I was given a half dollar for fessing up to the grocery.

I didn't learn my lesson. :(

[Raine]

30. That's too bad and why honesty shouldn't be monetarily

rewarded.

[deutsey]

5. Kudos to this dad

What I don't understand is how his kids could've been so vicious in their assault that they broke the other kid's jaw.

God help my kids if I ever found out they were doing something like these punks.

[Control-Z]

31. And because he wore glasses?

Not that there's any good reason.

[DirkGently]

13. The normal, expected reaction of a parent ... that you almost never see. Good on him.

[jacquelope]

15. The man is a hero n/t

.

[Divine Discontent]

16. wonderful parent.

[hifiguy]

17. Big props to this dad

for doing (1) what is right and (2) something that may get through the cement heads of his brats.

[seabeyond]

19. as we applaud the father, (me, too) one might ask why the kids made it to 15 and 17

and of the attitude they had the right or ability to bully a kid and bully to that extent.

that, too, says something about the parenting

[YellowRubberDuckie]

20. Great Parent.

Same thing I'd do if my kid were doing some thing illegal or harmful to others.
Duckie

[lpbk2713]

21. Tough love.

Probably no one in that family feels real great right now
but hopefully in time they will see things differently.

[JeffersonChick]

23. OMG, that is AWESOME! k&r

[ohheckyeah]

26. I don't know what the legal system

is like in Australia, but I think here in the U.S. it is too much of a crap shoot to turn your kids into the police for this type of thing. Yes, sell the car and the horse, ground their asses for a long time, work their little butts off, but turn into the police? Not so much a good idea in my book.

[Raine]

28. When I was kid a boy harassed me and my friend

the father came to our houses with the boy and made him apologize. That was different America though when people (including politicians) were held accountable for their actions. :-(

[Puregonzo1188]

29. I'm not entirely comfortable with the idea of selling the horse.

Car yes, but the horse--that seems a little sick.

[csziggy]

32. It would depend on how the kid felt about the horse

If it was just considered to be another possession, better that it go to another family. If it was like my mares, that are a part of my family, that is a different matter. I've known people who felt both ways. A teenager who would participate in bullying rough enough to break a kid's jaw could easily not care about the horse more than she would about an inanimate object.

[Juche]

33. Bullying is wrong

Too bad our entire system of mainstream entertainment and celebrity culture is partly based on the subject. But hell, oblivious moral superiority feels great.