Two Month Old Baby Doused With Pepper Spray In Feud At Wal-Mart

[matcom]

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PONDERAY, Idaho -- A woman doused a 2-month-old girl with pepper spray while feuding with the infant's family in a Wal-Mart, police said.

Lorlie M. Gantenbein, 36, of Sagle, was charged Tuesday with felony injury to a child. She was released on $5,000 bail.

The 2-month-old girl was recovering at home after being sprayed Monday, police Chief Mike Hutter said. The infant was treated at a hospital.

Gantenbein in a telephone interview on Wednesday denied using the pepper spray. She said her 16-year-old daughter used the spray, but did so in self-defense.

Gantenbein said she bought the spray for her daughter as tensions rose between the two families after the Gantenbeins rented property to the baby's family and then evicted them. The feud escalated when her daughter began dating the baby's father, she added.

According to police, Gantenbein's daughter sprayed the infant's grandmother and aunt, one of whom was holding the child. Gantenbein then took the canister and sprayed the baby, authorities said. The juvenile was cited with two counts of battery.

In the phone interview, Gantenbein said the baby's aunt grabbed her daughter by the arm, prompting the daughter to use the pepper spray. When the grandmother reached toward Gantenbein's daughter, the girl sprayed her too, Gantenbein said.

"The grandmother ran through the fog with the baby," she said. "It didn't get hit in the face."

However, the baby's mother, Christina Clayburn, told Spokane, Wash.'s KHQ-TV that Gantenbein "was yelling, 'Get the baby! Get the baby!' ... Then she took the Mace out of her daughter's hand and sprayed it directly into my daughter's face."

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[demnan]

1. Not Florida?

n/t

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

2. Nah, in FL it'd be the cops who pepper-spray children....

... for not 'complying'. :eyes:

[shesemsmom]

7. I thought Florida actually prefered

to tazer their young

[SOteric]

3. What do you expect from a city so dumb they can't spell their own name?

'Ponderay' is a bastardisation of Pend d'Oreille, required as the locals couldn't seem to spell the French version.

[JRob]

19. That's changing...

Ponderay is just North of Sandpoint, ID (on Lake Pend d'Oreille) and one of the fastest growing areas in the State and Country.

We do have a lot of Wife and Child beatin' Rush Limbaugh/NRA Bible thumpin' Republicans, who bitch about their lives, collect welfare, snort crank, acquire DUI's while reminiscing about the glory days before Clinton destroyed the Timber Industry.

But there are also a lot of Progressives here and a lot more moving to the area. It's an amazingly pristine and beautiful area.

[SOteric]

26. Well, that it is

(pristine and beautiful). I used to camp in that area with my brothers as a teenager.

[blondeatlast]

27. One of those Rush Limbaugh Bible thumpin' Rs is my uncle.

He does NOT beat his wife, however, although probably because she slathers over him so much.

Damn if I don't love the guy anyway--sorry, he's family. The only R ina boatload of yella dawgs.

Indeed, it's GORGEOUS. No, I won't name names, either.

[JRob]

30. Love mine too... regardless

Just avoid the subject(s)...

No beaters here either

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. A modern day backwoods version of Romeo and Juliet...

Gone crazier.

[johnnie]

5. Romeo Oh Romeo

Where did thoust put thine pepper spray?

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. HA!

:spray:

[ET Awful]

6. Self defense? WTF was she defending against, a dirty diaper?

I like odd punishments. I say take an idea from the Simpsons and swab her eyes with mace :).

[blondeatlast]

28. My thoughts exactly--did the TWO MONTH OLD have projectile spit-up?! nt

[shesemsmom]

8. If the Grandmama put her hands on the teenager

she had no bussiness doing that either. Sounds like a whole group of idiots

[IdaBriggs]

10. Hopefully Daddy is going to break up with the daughter.

If not, he is scum.

[bobthedrummer]

11. The whole affair sounds sordid. Scum all around.

Idaho has a small population, maybe it's ok there.

[IdaBriggs]

20. Agreed! nt

[underpants]

12. UGH!!!

TAIGTSAT

That's All I've Got To Say About That

[Pool Hall Ace]

13. All involved sound like a bunch of winners.

[BikeWriter]

14. That sounds like grounds for a good ass kicking...

[underpants]

15. HA! I am sending this to everyone bugging us to register at Walmart

Both families are bugging us to register for the baby showers at Walmart.

As I told my mother "(my wife) probably doesn't want anything from there and I WON"T ALLOW IT!" I usually don't set down terms like that in our relationship but I am NOT supporting Walmart.

[MissB]

16. I hear banjos playing.

Don't you?

[Elidor]

18. LOL!

:spray:

[flvegan]

17. At least there should be a video

That might straighten all this out. Heh heh...WalMart.

[TrogL]

21. Um...isn't that backwards?

her daughter began dating the baby's father

[blondeatlast]

29. Tears... effin' tears, I tellz ya!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Shakespeare]

22. Thus concludes this week's episode of White Trash Theatre. n/t

[GOPBasher]

23. Exactly! Join us next week for some more red-state fun! n/t

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. rofl

[Burma Jones]

25. One Time, at Wal Mart,

Up here in Germantown, MD, about a year and a half ago, a woman smashed a large order of hot McDonald's fries into a two year old's face because the two year old had bumped into her. The woman was convicted and ordered into therapy. The child had no physical damage.....