Police in Rock Hill, S.C. were called to a local Wal-Mart after receiving multiple calls about a mother who had allegedly shaved her 10-year-old son’s head, dressed him in women’s clothing, and “paraded him around” the store as a form of punishment, reports the Washington Post.
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Officers arrived at the store on Sunday evening to find the boy dressed in a tutu, women’s boots, women’s undergarments, and a T-shirt. According to the report, his head was shaved “in an unusual manner, bald on top with a patch of wig on the front of his head” with the word “BAD” scribbled in permanent marker on the back of his head.
What did the boy do to deserve this?
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According to police, his mother said she was “punishing her son for fighting and making homophobic remarks in school,” adding that “corporal punishment has been ineffective, so she was attempting to embarrass” her son as punishment.
Social services were called, but ultimately determined the child was not actually in any danger, despite the mother’s arguably “problematic” parenting skills.
“We’re not going to charge the mother with anything,” Rock Hill Police spokesman Mark Bollinger told the Washington Post. “The incident apparently shocked some customers and some some of the staff, and they gave us a call.”
Bollinger added that he believed the public punishment was “very unusual.”
Kristopher Saim-Gentry
That probably a tad excessive…
Adrian Ornelas
that will probably make him more homophobic thanks to that mom ugh…
Brandon Foley
Shaming him as punishment may be why he feels compelled to shame others.
Charles Schultz
Humiliation is probably not good. How about a gay straight alliance group might be a better idea.
Kevin Fitzsimmons
I think CPS should be called on a bad call. In what world is this not child abuse? Mom is nuts.
Dion Daly-Susino
I love this Mom.
Glücklich
See if you can spot him.
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?s=tutu&submit=Submit
Daniel Salmeron
Humiliating a person is never the answer
Akim Cohen
She tried physically punishing him and he continued misbehaving in school, often a symptom of mistreatment, and we’re broadcasting her mistreatment of him across the internet?
Noah Ayyash
Thats horrible :(.
Tymm Conner
I agree with Charles… A group of Gay/Straight Alliance kid so he can understand what homophobia does and how bullying affects others probably would be more effective. This, however… Too much. She should never have done this. This is epically horrible parenting.
Todd Fosdick
Wow…..great parenting. Its not against any law to disapprove of someone and their choices. Homophobic lives matter.
Mark Lee
A bit harsh
Lee Swinney
tuff love
Sand Nierenberg
And that’s the trash that shops at Walmart
Scott Matthew Goldstein
I see nothing wrong with this at all.
Jerry Green
Good for her. More parents should take action like this when their children spout hate.
Mike Burke
Yes like thats going to make him accept gay people thats how serial killers are made great parenting mom
James Sigmon
Again stupid parents who don’t need kids
William Mc Gregor
Doing something about it I support, but dressing him as the “type” of person he hates as a punishment says that dressing him in “girls” clothing is degrading and therefore so are the people who dress like that on a daily basis.
Cam
Remember, she said the kid was fighting and making homophobic remarks.
In other words, maybe the kid was assaulting and beating up kids he suspected of being gay. If he was older that is assault and carries a jail term.
I have a feeling the parents of the kids he beat might not be so upset about this.
Jim Thronberry
The form of punishment might be somewhat off ~so to speak ; but have to give her credit where its due for “trying ” to teach her son right from wrong .
Derek Perron
Humiliating a homophobe with a homophobic actions….makes total sense. Smh
David Chachki
No where does it say the boy was homophobic
1EqualityUSA
Walmart may offer this as services, like flu shots, but the humiliation tank, a gazebo set up near the front of the store.
1EqualityUSA
sorry for the horrible sentence structure. I’m cleaning.
Tommy Ogletree
While I like her sentiment, that isn’t really right……..he is probably fighting with his own sexuality.
Faye Denton
Ok, that is stupid, really STUPID. What a horrible ignorant mother. She hasn’t a clue on being a parent. How gross.
RobvR
This is just child abuse. This woman shouldn’t be allowed to have children. And if my father or mother would have done this to me because I wouldn’tlisten I would never, ever have respect for him/her again. This is the best way to create homophobes for life.
Judy Rae Jackson
This is not the appropriate punishment. This woman needs therapy, along with her son.
Uranus
What a courageously inventive mother! Experiencing embarrassment is merely due to a lack of maturity, and many children and immature adults go through this. Oftentimes, children and immature adults will feel pressured to alter themselves in a negative way (like with homophobia) just to not have to experience embarrassment within the sight of their established “peers”. The children ultimately grow up to realize embarrassment is insignificant throughout the whole of meaningful adult life. I’m sure he is mad at his mother right now, but maybe this child will learn from the experience and grow up into a better person after all his homophobic material kid-friends reject having any affiliation with the “Walmart Queer kid”, and of course, as long as the homophobic gangs don’t “inspire” him first. 🙂 This is pretty cool and interesting.
Cam
@RobvR: said… “This is just child abuse. This woman shouldn’t be allowed to have children.”
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If what she did was abuse, then what do you call what the kid did to other kids in his school? That could be called assault and battery and get him sent to juvie hall if the other parents push, so is it better that she embarrass him or that he gets sent away for a year?
Will Glitzern
If he was older, maybe, but ten is too young for this. It won’t teach him anything except to hate his mother.
Curty
I think she has a bigger problem than him. That was kinda cruel and unnecessary. :-/
Chinnu Thao
Only at Walmart
SebX
Seriously? Spare me your bleedign hearts. Little asshole had it coming.
I don’t subscribe to the current “every child is precious, and a unique little beacon of light” mentality. No, they aren’t all like that, and sometimes harsher measures need to be taken on time.
You think a child only needs love, patience and understanding? Fair enough, my parents never hit me or did anything like that, but I wasn’t fighting and yelling homophobic words to classmates either.
If he was shaming kids he believed ot be gay and attacked them, he’ll now have felt the shame he inflicts upon others and knows exactly how bad it feels. I doubt he’ll ever do that again.
Kudos to the mom, I say.
Josh Nollenberg
This isn’t right.
Fern8783
while it’s excessive and is something I’d never do to my child(if I ever have one), I can’t help but snicker a little bit and know that he’s learned his lesson.
DuMaurier
@SebX:
I think it’s abuse, but aside from that, the question is: what will be the effect in the end?
No way to be sure, but what popped into my head was a kid going from fighting and gay slurs (probably due to unresolved emotional or even medical issues) to suppressed rage that may very well erupt in even more lethal violence later on.
Robert Young
Not a great idea
Kieran
Mommie Dearest must be trying to produce the next Lee Harvey Oswald or Charles Manson. If she treats her son like that in public you can just imagine the kind of abuse the boy receives behind closed doors.
Giancarlo85
Rough justice. His mom was probably angered by the homophobic remarks and didn’t raise his son this way. Sometimes that is the only way to get the point across. People who think this is abuse are mistaken. Abuse? What a pile of fucking crap. Maybe you should ask the kids who were the subject of his homophobic abuse! The bully got what was coming to him and his mom had enough of it!
Maybe you guys ought to ask what the bully’s victim think. I was bullied by kids like this one… it’s a pity their parents weren’t as unforgiving. The mother here was probably embarrassed by her own son.
Giancarlo85
@Cam: No, these guys won’t stop and think about the victims of the bully. They are too worried about the mother. And they are trying to suggest the mother would raise another Charles Manson. These punks would be a singing a different tune if one of the victims of this bully took their own life.
Ryan Thomas Murray
SO WRONG…!!!
Chuck Cardillo
This woman is one crazy bitch!
Damon Robbins
That is the wrong way to deal with homophobia.
Jeffrey Thomas
Please – DO NOT blame gay people or the dreaded mythical “homosexual agenda” for this horrible act of bad parenting. This mother went a little too far, us gay people do not endorse her bevarior.. A tutu with out the proper matching shoes and bag, never.
Sweetie Pie
Tough love in action……I wish I had called another kid “c*cksucker” when I was in school, I would have loved the punishment
David Pickersgill
As a solution… freakin useless…. as a trigger to more problems… yep probably one of the best….
Aloysius Anthony Vollmer
I think that there would be a more effective way. Makes you wonder how they taught him other things.
Kevun Houke
WRONG, Mom..
JerseyMike
So fcuked up its crazy.. Shaming him isn’t going to change anything.. Might make it worse.. When you have to go this far you have or are failing as a parent..
Robert A Jones
That’s nothing the people of Walmart haven’t already seen. She should have taken him somewhere that might have been risqué.
Randy Judd
Severe, Bitch will hate even more.
SteveDenver
Walmart… figures
ABUSE
aliengod
This woman definitely should have been arrested. It’s nothing short of child abuse to humiliate a young kid like this. Why do so many ignorant people have kids!!! Shocking this happened at Walmart.
Griff Taylor
In about five yrs he is going to stomp her into the ground.
Brian
The mother should be charged with child abuse.
o.codone
it is clearly abusive and the authorities will not charge the mother because of the political agenda behind her actions. as a child i begged the authorities to take me out of my abusive home, and i know what happens when the social worker leaves and there you are, alone with the parent who just got away with it again. terrifying. this is wrong.
NoCagada
He’s going to have some strange sexual proclivities…worse than he probably was already having…
Sue Zanne
Now he going to hate her AND gay people. Bravo, mom, bravo.
Arcamenel
Public humiliation is never a good way to discipline a child. Also the type of humiliation brings up more questions. Does she think dressing her son up in a tutu is going to make him more sympathetic to gay people. I lived in Rock Hill and it’s pretty progressive well as much as any town in SC can be. I think she went about this the wrong way.
Giancarlo85
@aliengod: What a pigeon. Of course you would say that.
@o.codone: And what was her political agenda? You’re stupid. This has nothing to do with a political agenda. But everything is political for you because you’re a demented right wing dingbat.
Jim Baney
I am not sure this was appropriate or totally wacko… a couple of points 1) she is trying to make him a better person and 2) I am not sure Walmart folks were really shocked… Have u seen the hot or not messes that are in that place?
Hugo Ferreira
serves the kid right for making the kid fun of us gays
Hugo Ferreira
punishments should be forced apponed kids and other people in general just like that
aliengod
@Giancarlo85: Why am I not surprised that you think publicly humiliating a child in such an extreme manner is acceptable? Is this why you’re so vile; your parents treated you like this as a child? Please… don’t ever reproduce (not that there’s much chance of that)!
Mike Smith
Man, disown that bitch
Jason Williams
Hes gay …..
youarekiddingme
@Giancarlo85: Perhaps a better application of this exercise (or something similar) would have been at his school…amongst his classmates…the ones he TERRORIZED and ASSAULTED and HUMILIATED!
seaguy
At least she was not like so many other parents totally unaware of what their children are doing and thus allowing their kids to run wild with no discipline whatsoever.
Horse Lips
She made him walk around WALMART? That, alone, is punishment enough.
Jim Philbrick
Ummmm…. not the way to go to cure homophobia
Giancarlo85
@aliengod: Poly want a cracker? You are so fucking predictable it isn’t even funny anymore. No, my parents didn’t treat me this way because I didn’t bully other kids and call them names. You, on the other hand, display all the attributes of a bully (considering your endless bashing of feminine and/or out gay men).
You fools would want this bully to be strung up if someone committed suicide because of his actions. You’re not fooling anyone.
@youarekiddingme: That’s perhaps even better.
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Robbie Martinez
Now the parent will be probably punished or arrested.
Christopher Michael
How disgustingly Christian of her.
Sluggo2007
Only at Walmart, kids, only at Walmart.
Craig Bankert
Really the wrong move here. Traumatizing him teaches him nothing.
Joe
That’s a bit too much. This will scar him even more. He’ll most likely join an anti-gay militant group when he’s 16. Thanks mom!
Vickie Kaye
Child abuse… thanks mom for the years of therapy ahead…
aliengod
@Giancarlo85: Thankfully, as usual, your whacky opinion is in the minority.
Ronnyboy
@Horse Lips: Are you kidding me? As kids we loved places like Wallmart.
Ernie Curry
As a gay man, I think this woman needs to be locked up.
Magnus
See, now if it were a parent trying to embarrass and punish their son or daughter for being gay, or non-gender conforming, or even embracing of LGBT people, I bet this wouldn’t have even got such negative attention.
Remember that story about the barber who shaved kids to shame and embarrass them? I don’t remember child services being called in on his ass.
Why is it acceptable to shame your kid by shaving them bald, but dressing them in a tutu gets this woman a call to social services? It’s ridiculous the double standards our society has.
GayEGO
It sounds like this boy is a bully and his mother should know best how to punish him. A bully generally does not listen to nice talk and needs this type of embarrassment. As a gay man, out since 1961, I have seen a lot of bullying of gays. Most guys do not bully and they listen to reasonable talk about how one should treat another.
GayEGO
@Charles Schultz: Bullies generally don’t respond to nice talk and need to be embarrassed, just like the school shooters need to be kept from obtaining weapons using better technical methods.
Avery Alvarez
The punishment is excessive, and I’m not sure what lesson he’s supposed to learn from it? Embarrass and humiliate others to make yourself feel powerful?
The men that wear tutus are an embarrassment?
Some people on here want revenge on their childhood bullies so much, they’ll practically call for torturing a child. It’s good that many on here will not become parents.
Giancarlo85
@aliengod: Oh fucking please. You’re a gay republican. You are naturally messed up. How do you reconcile your very existence with those screwed up extremist beliefs?
Glücklich
@Ronnyboy:
I don’t mind Walmart even now. There’re none near me but if I needed a laundry hamper, doormat, plain white gym socks or something basic like that, I’d get ’em there. There is, however, a CityTarget nearby.
RobvR
@RobvR: If the boy wouldn’t listen to his mother then this won’t help either. I actually think he will only hate gays, and his mother, more after this. His hate will only fester. He should be taken away from his mother (at least for a short while) and put into a place for difficult children where he can get professional help. Like some sort of rehab.
RobvR
@Cam: Strange, the last comment should be a reply to you. Guess you understood that 😉
stranded
How is this kid not in danger? He obviously has anger issues stemming from somewhere if the mom’s previous punishments have not worked. Also, mental danger is just as bad as physical. She’s going to raise a serial killer like that.