In Manitowoc, Wis, a women was charged last Thursday with beating and scalding her 5-year old son who has Down syndrome. She has told authorities that when she was angry she would repeatedly strick him on his back. when he would go to the bathroom in his pants she would put him a scolding hot water. The little boy was screaming was he was in the cold and hot water. He sat in the hot water for 1 1/2 minutes leaving the boy with burns on 8% of his body. He didn't get any medical attention for hours, then later he was taken to the hospital on Monday. The doctor said that he had to many bruises to count. The mother is free on $10,000 cash bail and is to make her first court appearance on Monday Sept. 29. I think that this is just a cruel and abuse to her child and she shouldn't be able to care for him. His god parents or grandparents should care for him.
What would you do if you were a doctor who saw this on a child? Would you ask the parent about it or go straight to the police if you think it is abuse? Why?
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Great job!
I would do something about it. I would ask him what happened, ask the parents, and then go to the cops. If I thought it was abuse, I would go straight to the police because the parents won't tell the truth.
I would treat it like any other child with abuse. I would take it straight to police because that is part of their job.
I would definitely ask the parent first you never know who did it or what is going on. Then if they made a lame excuse I would definitely go to the police pry either way but ask the parents first! It just is not right and you do not do that to any child.
I agree with you that you could ask the parent even if they give you a lousy excuse. You don't know what happened and if you figure out a little bit of the back ground it can help you make the decision to call the police.
I would ask the kid what happened first, without the parent in the room. Then I would ask the parent, and then the police if I believed it was abuse. I wouldn't rely on just their word, and I'm guessing that their stories wouldn't match so I would call the police.
That is what I would do as well, because I would like to see what the child has to say about how they got the burns and bruises.
This was terrible. She should lose all custody from him and should find him a new family. No kid deserves to be treated like that and all kids should have nice, loving parents. The doctors should take that to the police and she should be filed for child abuse.
I would go straight to the police, that is obvious abuse and I would feel so bad for the boy and if his mother couldn't handle a special needs child she should have put him up for adoption or something so the child didn't have to go through that terrible life.
I would send in a court order for the kid to be sent to a different family. I would go straight to the police because if he is mentally disabled you shouldnt beat him. Any kid shouldnt be beaten.
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