What’s the appropriate way to calm an eight-year old who’s throwing a violent temper tantrum? Talk him down? Send him to the principal’s office? Pepper-spray him – twice?
Police in Lakewood, Colo., opted for the latter tactic to subdue Aiden Elliot after the second-grader threatened teachers and students with a piece of wooden wall trim, which he held like a knife.
“I kind of blow up a little,” the boy admitted to ABC News. “I said I’m going to kill you....”
Aidan, who is in a class for children with behavioural problems, said his teachers had put him in a corner for acting rowdy, and had called his mother. His confinement enraged him.
According to the Associated Press, when asked whether he really intended to injure anyone, Aidan responded: “A little.”
“I kind of deserved it,” he acknowledged.
Aidan’s mother Mandy Elliot said she is upset with the school, and is filing a complaint against the police.
“Why didn’t they talk to him?” she said. Or, we wonder, remove the stick from his hand? How hard can it be to disarm an 8-year-old?
“He was red, handcuffed, crying screaming how much it burned,” she said.
Ms. Elliot added that her son only acts out at school, and is never violent at home with babysitters and family members, nor is he violent at his soccer and swimming activities.
Police defended their decision, saying the situation forced them to act quickly and that no one was injured. School officials, meanwhile, told the press they’ve been seeing more elementary and pre-school students behaving violently, and are concerned about the problem.
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Would anybody think that part of a problem is how we raise our children as a society. It had been said that "It takes a village to raise a child" - but look at a sorry status quo of the village. Why do we wonder that children are becoming more and more violent when media bombard them with never ending avalanche of violence, sex, depravation and nihilism. Are these role models that are benefiting their personal development? We raise our children in a village where Child Protective Services made a business out of snatching babies out of parents for profit and there is no recourse for that. In our village it is dangerous to discipline out of control kid - they threaten you with reporting to CPS or police. Why are we surprised that kids demand from us? Let it be toys, phones, computers, fashion items - we give them to buy extra time to chase our pleasures or money, and unfortunately for many to secure basic needs when all they really want is some attention and love. They are watching us and learning. We don't give them quality educating entertainment but we allow advertisement industry to brainwash them into wining, tantrum throwing "want it all and now" little monsters. They see us chasing materialism. They see wars and violence. They take a notice that brutal force takes the front to other options in resolving conflicts. So there is nothing new: kids are just mimicking grownups as they always did. Isn’t it a powerful enough reason for us to change our ways? It will not happen by itself. We have to get up and act. We have to clean up our village and bring it back to original order. And we have to do it peacefully as today violence leads to the doom of all.
Yes, it does take a village to raise kids , but how many people in a village really help?
Depends on whether the police are paid off. I nearly went to jail for saving my daughters.And then a policeman, detective I think he called himself, alleges that throwing my daughter down the stairs after pulling her off a bunk bed for not washing dishes is not abuse. Tying up a child and leaving her on a cold floor is not abuse. Punching her in the eye (and causing a black eye ) is not abuse. Holding her over a high decking and threatening to drop her is not abuse. Putting her head in a toilet and flushing is not abuse. The other one had to eat vomit and was sexually abused and I will not read the statements. A witness has come forward and if it kills me I will get justice; if I go to jail so be it I will fight to the end.The name of the Detective from Melbouren is Neil Beesham of Doncaster Police. I am going to the Office of Police Integrity re him. He also closed my file of violent bashing (so bad I had to dissocitate) and most violent rape. This pig of a man said I was not a "VICTIME OF CRIME"The creature is hiding in the Dominican Republic with his defrauded loot.
In Melbourne a monster got jailed for life today for throwing his daughter of four off a bridge. For rescuing my girls I was charged with stalking by the Doncaster Police and they wanted to lock me up for ten years. In this other case the mother knew what her ex husband was like but no one listened.
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