Man beats 13 year old daughter while mother films it- it goes viral with most approving

[cali]

I find this so disturbing and depressing.

I heard about it just a bit ago while listening to some NPR program. The back story is that the 13 year old had taken off for 3 days.


A father beats his 13-year-old daughter as her mother records it and spews profanities in a viral video that surfaced recently.

According to online reports, the man in the video beat his daughter because of her rebellious behavior.

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As her father holds her by her hair and beats her with a rod or folded belt, the daughter seems to accept the beating. The woman holding the camera, presumably the girl’s mother, spews profanities in the video.

While they express concern over her being “off in the woods dead somewhere," some speculate that they couldn’t have been too concerned, considering authorities were never alerted of the girl’s disappearance.

Since its publication, the video has accumulated 3 million views.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/father-beats-13-year-old-daughter-while-mother-films-it-video

[Dorian Gray]

1. There is no way

I want to watch that video. Disgusting.

[lostincalifornia]

27. I won't watch the video, and it should be turned over to the police for abuse or assault

[DiverDave]

37. I can't either

just sick.
It's the parents fault, nothing happens in a vacuum.
They should be charged with abuse.

[mackerel]

2. can't the couple be reported for child abuse?

[lostincalifornia]

26. Yes

[Xyzse]

3. Wait, this happened in America?

Not only that, they did not f-ing report the girl's disappearance to authorities?

WTF?

[Dorian Gray]

5. They were obviously

so worried about their 13 year old child being missing for so long. (Because they had to wait three days to beat the shit out of her.)

No wonder she disappeared.

[Xyzse]

9. Yeah... Goodness...

Stayed away for 3 days... Dang.

[Maedhros]

29. I can understand why she would want to stay away. [n/t]

[JimDandy]

30. African American? Why was that so important for you to announce?

[dionysus]

33. they let shit slip sometimes. nt.

[JimDandy]

41. That was strange-the implication was her race didn't make her worthy of love

and protection.

[JI7]

46. it's the usual coming from that one

[JI7]

35. is there a reason race is an issue here ?

[redqueen]

6. So tragic.

Those people need to be in jail.

I wish I could say I was surprised at the support these monsters got.

[kcr]

12. Wait for it

There will eventually be posts supporting it here, too. There are pro-child abusers here, too.

[FrodosPet]

7. World Star Hip Hop - I'm not surprised much of their audience is OK with it

They love showing street violence.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh5kP8oA6w7dsvi43T

[Jgarrick]

8. Gee, I can't imagine why she left such a loving father in the first place.

Someone needs to track this family down and intervene, now.

[Le Taz Hot]

10. De ja vu

I left at 17 years old and never looked back. If she wasn't wailing on me she was more than willing let the boyfriends wail on me. And the sad thing was? I wasn't a bad kid. I'm 58 years old and, needless to say, we're "estranged." So, those of you who believe in "spare the rod, spoil the child," remember this post. And may you rot in hell for your sadistic behavior.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. You can absolutely bet that she had good reason to run away

in the first place. I have no doubt that her parents are monsters, and can only hope that the authorities intervene and remove her from that hellhole of a home.

And BTW I didn't watch the video. I have spent a lot of years working with both victims and perpetrators of every sort of abuse, and already have a massive overload of specific and detailed knowledge of what people are capable of doing to each other.

One final point--without excusing anything, I will comment that violence often perpetuates violence down the generations, and parental rage, originating in the parents' own childhood experiences, is often displaced onto their children. Obviously, this is not always the case; for every abused abuser there are others with equally brutal childhoods whose history of suffering leads them to abhor the thought of harming their own children or anyone else. It is only half in jest that I have sometimes commented that the two major products of abusive childhoods are abusers and psychotherapists.

[dilby]

13. Girl in the video looks a lot older than 13.

She looks like she is in her 20s.

[redqueen]

14. There are a lot of girls who develop early and look much older. nt

[cali]

16. so what? oh, and you don't seem to realize that this isn't a bit uncommon.

[dilby]

17. Yeah I don't condone it.

But if I saw that video without any explanation I would assume it was a guy beating his girlfriend. Where did this video come from and is their any facts to this being a father daughter and not some guy beating his wife and saying it's daughter so people will not question?

[kcr]

22. It's a way to avoid criticism from those who think it's okay to beat children

but he won't necessarily avoid legal consequences either way. But someone who would beat another person and post the video isn't thinking ahead to consequences like that. I'm sure we can reasonably assume that we're witnessing child abuse.

[redqueen]

18. And?

Girls who are abused sometimes resort to such measures in an effort to seek out approving / 'positive' interaction with adults. If the abuse is sexual in nature this is an even more common response.

[justiceischeap]

19. And it's okay to beat a girl and pull her around by the hair

because she isn't dressed to your standards?

Really?

[dilby]

20. I would like to see the original source of where this started.

Honestly that looks like a guy beating his girlfriend and should be charged with domestic violence. If you look at the comments on the link everyone thinks it's ok because it's supposedly his daughter, doubt anyone would be saying that if it was his girlfriend or wife.

[justiceischeap]

21. And yet, you sidestepped my question. nt

[Scootaloo]

28. Is there any relevance to your dithering?

[VScott]

24. Listen at the begining

He yells "you 13, ho"!

Then I think it sounds like "you want to be a woman"?

[JI7]

34. why does any of this matter ? who cares how old she looks or how she was dressed

and it would not have been ok if it was her boyfriend/husband beating her either.

[Takket]

23. ... But gays should not be allowed to adopt.

[AverageJoe90]

25. Keep in mind, lots of trolls & malcontents tend to gravitate towards stuff like this.

It's their raison d'etre; they'll flood the comments boards just to inflate their numbers, or whatever.

What's scary, though, is that right now, there are several million people in this country who really do think that this is perfectly acceptable.......and some of *them* even outright applaud it! (Trolls or not)

[JimDandy]

31. Yet here we are on this thread

and I'm none of those. Are you? I do see some of that happening on lounge posts though, so I know what you mean.

[AverageJoe90]

36. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression, Jim.

I had entirely meant to refer to the Facebook comments being made on the article. Apologies for lack of clarity on my part.

[JimDandy]

40. No problem.

Makes sense now.

[CFLDem]

32. Holy shiitake

The abuse is definitely not hyperbole!

I'm not entirely against kids picking their own switch, but holy crap that daughter needs to be removed from that household immediately and the father charged with battery.

[DiverDave]

38. A child not getting love and nurture at home

God damn the parents.
The girl is in danger, from them, from someone that will
take advantage of her search for love.

God damn those "parents"

[davidn3600]

39. The disturbing thing about the comments...

...is many thinking it's OK because "I got it worse when I was a kid."

[Justpat]

42. The parents are insane.

With parents like these it is a wonder she did not stay away for good.

[HughBeaumont]

43. Gee, wonder why she took off . . . .

And WHY did I read the comments? WHY??

[ecstatic]

44. I'm hoping it's fake

None of their faces are visible. If it is real, the arguments about "old school discipline" fail big time. Whippings are one thing, but when insults and slurs are added to the whipping, it becomes something entirely different. There is no scenario where it's OK to call a 13 year old child--or anyone--a bitch and a ho.

[kcr]

45. I think getting yanked aroudn by the hair and viciously beaten are just as bad without the words.

It's a "thing" either way. They belong in jail.