AIBU to hate the "name and shame" brigade?

[MeAndMy3LovelyBoys]

So I have just seen a post on FB made by some guy who witnessed a woman hit her child in public. He took 3 photos of her and posted them in order to "name and shame" her.

Now I don't condone hitting children (she slapped him across the face), BUT, it could have been breaking point for this woman. She could be depressed and needs help rather than the whole country demonising her and rubbing her face in the mud. AIBU to hate this "name and shame" culture on social media. Surely a much kinder way of him dealing with this if he really felt the need to, would have been to show the photos to social services who would have been able to offer her support rather than plaster her face all over social media? Then at least hers and her child's identity would be safe from the public?

Am I just being a huge do gooder?

Bill I am not justifying what she did to her child. I'm also not minimising it by saying she may have something underlying in the background that the man on FB and everyone else knows nothing about.
She may well be at breaking point but nowhere have I said that it is actually ok to use this as an excuse to hit her child. Nobody has the right to hit anyone. I am pointing out that she may need support from the right people, not vilification all over social media.

I do not condone hitting children, but I accept that not everyone who does hurt their children is in the right frame of mind eg depression, stress, feeling overwhelmed. This man hasn't the faintest idea what it going on her life and she could be feeling absolutely beside herself with guilt right now for hitting her child.

Of course, she might just have no patience for her child and it might be as simple as that. But the man on FB doesn't know that for sure does he and he should have handled it better by going to SS rather than going down the name and shame route as he may just be causing further problems.

As I said earlier, what would he have done before Social media? Gone to SS.

No it's vile

If it's the same one that I'm thinking, YABU.

She hit him hard enough to make him bleed. Shame away.

And all because he leaned against a dusty door.

Yeah that's the one. I wouldn't have liked to have witnessed that.
But I still think the name and shame thing is wrong.

I really hope he has forwarded it to SS and not just done it solely for likes.

But I can see why he would post it. I would want everyone who knows the mother to know what she is like.

Why? What the duck has it got to do with anyone else. It sounds like it should be dealt with through SS but I absolutely fail to see why anyone should have their misdemeanours slapped all over social media. Can you really not see why that is an awful idea? And won't help that child, or the mother, in any way shape or form? All it will do is make a load of people feel smug about themselves.

Fuck! What the fuck!!!

You are condoning it OP. Again, you've just trotted out a load of excuses which are exactly those which used to be used to justify violence against women.

It's not acceptable anymore to use them around the subject of DV against women. Go on the relationships board and find a DV thread and try telling them that the man shouldn't be judged because he might have been stressed or depressed or having a bad day or been under pressure and he probably feels guilty about it now.

You'd be quite correctly ripped to shreds for justifying, minimising and condoning his actions. And that logic doesn't cancel itself out for children. Short of florid psychosis, there is no justification for hitting children. It's assault, it's illegal. We all have bad days and hard times. But very few of us use it as an excuse for a bit of child abuse. It's not acceptable. Ever.