And I thought my mom was abusive for wigging me !

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A Connecticut mother is charged with forcing her 4-year-old son to drink beer and giving beer and cocaine to her 10-month-old daughter. The Connecticut Post reports that 29-year-old Juliette Dunn was arrested on June 28 after a neighbor flagged down police and told them the woman was feeding beer to her children at the Success Village playground in Bridgeport.

Dunn and a 33-year-old companion, Lisa Jefferson, were arrested and charged with assault and risk of injury to a minor. Witnesses told police that Dunn gave a 40-ounce bottle of beer to the boy and ordered him to chug it down. Both children tested positive for alcohol at a local hospital and the 10-month old tested positive for cocaine.

Dunn and Jefferson are both being held in lieu of $100,000 bonds.

And from the local front: The Philadelphia couple accused of ditching their 4-year-old son after robbing a South Street jewelry store will go on trial today. With their son in tow, John Benson, 48, and Sheakia Stubbs, 32, entered the Platinum & Ice Jewelry store on the afternoon of Feb. 27, 2010, police said. The couple asked to look at rings, then created a diversion that allowed Benson to reach behind the counter and grab 15 rings worth $50,000, police said.

Stubbs fled with the rings; Benson with the boy. When the owner caught up with Benson, the robber slashed his neck with a blade, police said. The injured owner and a store employee chased Benson for another block-and-a-half before he left the boy on Rodman Street and ran off. Benson and Stubbs are charged with aggravated assault, robbery, endangering the welfare of a child and other offenses. Benson is also charged with attempted murder.

DALLAS (AP) — A 10-year-old Dallas-area boy who died of dehydration after his father and stepmother kept water from him was being punished for wetting the bed, authorities say. The boy, Johnathan James died July 25 after water was kept from him for five days while temperatures soared to 100 degrees or more each day, police said. The boy's dad, Michael Ray James, and stepmother, Tina Alberson, both 42, were jailed after being charged Thursday with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.

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On the other hand...

I didn't find this in English so here's the google translator version of it (the first line translation is hilarious)

An Italian who was arrested in Sweden for slapping her son in the street

A 46 year-old Italian was arrested on Tuesday in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, for on the street have dealt a blow to your child of twelve, she had a tantrum.

Giovanni Colasanto, chief of the City of Canosa in Apulia region, on the Adriatic coast, was denounced, arrested and held for three days in prison, according to the newspaper "Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno".

The man was released since then, but was forbidden to leave the country and forced to report daily to police station until the trial, the next day, September 6.

Colasanto risks being charged with a felony abuse Colasanto risks being accused of a felony of abuse, severely punishable under Swedish law.

The man spent the holiday in Sweden with his family, and the same day he was arrested was planning a boat trip to the fjords in Sweden.

Colasanto's wife decided to stay at home with her ​​husband, while the child, involuntary protagonist of the vicissitudes of the father opted to return to Italy.

http://www.publico.es/internacional/393718/un-italiano-arrestado-en-suecia-por-abofetear-a-su-hijo-en-plena-calle

A 14-year-old girl ended her birthday in protective custody after her father allegedly punched during her party. The dad allegedly hit the birthday girl when she tried to stop him from fighting with other guests in Storm Mountain outside Salt Lake City, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

Police told the Tribune that father had been drinking and threatened other guests with a fire poker, knife and a beer bottle. He allegedly struck his daughter once when she tried to break up the fracas and then he punched her again when she tried another time to break things up, according to the Associated Press. Cops charged the unidentified father with aggravated assault and child abuse. They placed his daughter in protective custody, the Tribune said.

this is not about my mother......



My Mean Mother
“I had the meanest mother in the world.
While other kids had lollies for breakfast, I had to have cereal, egg and toast.
While other kids had cans of soft drink and lollies for lunch, I had to have a sandwich.
As you can guess, my dinner was different from other kids’ too, as well as the food; we had to eat at a table and not in front of the television.

My mother also insisted on knowing where we were at all times, you’d think we were on a chain gang or something.
She had to know who our friends were, where we were going and she even told us what time we had to be home.

I am ashamed to admit it, but my mother actually had the nerve to break child labour laws.
She made us work.
We had to wash dishes, make our beds and even learn how to cook.

That woman must have stayed awake at night just thinking up things for us kids to do.
She always insisted that we tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

By the time we were teenagers, our whole life became even more unbearable.
No tooting the car horn for the girls in our family to come running.
She embarrassed us by insisting that the boys come to the door to get us.

I forgot to mention that most of our friends were allowed to date at the mature age of 12 and 13.
Our old fashioned mother refused to let us date before we were at least 15.

She really raised a bunch of squares.
None of us were ever arrested for shoplifting or busted for dope.

And who do we have to thanks for this?
You’re right – our mean mother.

Every day we hear cries from both our people and politicians about what our country really needs.

What our country really needs is more mean mothers like mine…”