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Woman slapped stranger's baby in High Wycombe

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arolf · 02/01/2010 21:01

Although I'm sure many have been tempted in the past, who in their right mind would actually do it?!

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8437548.stm

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 02/01/2010 21:04
Shock
thisisyesterday · 02/01/2010 21:05

i'd bet my bottom dollar that she has some kind of mental health issue. it isn't the kind of thing you're average person on the street would do.

still, not nice

SleighGirl · 02/01/2010 21:08

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arolf · 02/01/2010 21:09

tiy - i'd agree - must be some sort of mental health problem there. poor wee boy, and how horrid for his mother too.

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MiladyDeWinter · 02/01/2010 21:57

I'd like to say that I'd have pinned her down none-too-gently until someone in authority arrived.

But it doesn't go like that does it? As responsible people we try to minimise trauma. Poor little chap.

abbierhodes · 02/01/2010 22:01

Milady, I think I'd have punched her!!!
She must be ill though, surely.

geordieminx · 02/01/2010 22:03

looks like a bloke to me

edam · 02/01/2010 22:23

bizarre. Horrible for mother and child. Hope woman does have MH issues as at least that would be some excuse...

monkeyfacegrace · 02/01/2010 22:36

Id have run after her and knocked ten shades of shit out of her. I swear to god.

BitOfFun · 02/01/2010 22:38

Quite possibly on drugs, if not a MH issue.

MyCatIsABiggerBastardThanYours · 02/01/2010 22:43

Bloody hell. She must have mental health problems. Even so, I'm pretty bloody certain I'd have socked her one back.

JustAnotherManicMummy · 02/01/2010 22:45

Horrible.

But I did have a guilty snigger that you saw fit to put High Wycombe in your thread title. For additional moral outrage

BitOfFun · 02/01/2010 22:53
Grin
JodieO · 02/01/2010 22:59

If anyone did that to any of my children I would deck them and no doubt about that, I would seriously lose it. Sorry if they did have mental health issues but that wouldn't stop my rage at someone hitting my 2 year old tbh.

MiladyDeWinter · 02/01/2010 23:11

I'm with JodieO, I probably couldn't help myself if it happened in RL and would end up in a stupid amount of trouble.

ChilloHippi · 02/01/2010 23:13

Nutter, surely.
I remember a few years ago, I was waiting in a very,very long queue in a bookshop in London where Jacqueline Wilson was signing her new book at the time (Diamond Girls if I remember rightly). A few famililes ahead of us in the line, a woman slapped another woman's child who had been getting understandably stroppy at the wait. The child that was slapped was much older than two, but it was still really shocking to see. The police were called and the slapping lady was taken away.

WilfSell · 02/01/2010 23:14

I would have punched her lights out too. And I'm a pacifist.

thisisyesterday · 02/01/2010 23:18

she ran off though didn't she. so unless you were going to leave your upset 2 year old and chase after her you wouldn't have had a chance.

WilfSell · 02/01/2010 23:27

yes. I can see that would be an issue. If I was with someone else I'd hope they would hold her long enough for me to deck her.

DH said he would be 'quite annoyed' in the circs. By which he means 'would have rugby tackled her to ground, toddler under one arm and headbutted her'

God. How awful though. MH issues or not, it is utterly inexcusable.

Probably the poor mother was just utterly shocked and unable to respond other than to comfort her child. Because it would have been utterly unexpected.

atlantis · 02/01/2010 23:36

"Anyone with information about the incident on 25 September "

Jesus and they wonder why crimes don't get solved anymore, why not wait until months later to issue a plea for witnesses.

I think as soon as she shouted to shut the child up I would have challenged her, there's no way she would have gotten near my child and if she'd taken a step towards me I would have decked her ( self defence in the eyes of the law re; threatening behaviour) and if they still wanted to prosecute, oh well.

Mentally ill or not if someone went for my child they would regret it.

Ripeberry · 02/01/2010 23:40

Any normal mum would deck that woman without even thinking

CurlyhairedAssassin · 02/01/2010 23:45

I've had some bloke scream "fuck off" at my 3 yr old in tesco before. That was shocking enough- I assumed there were mental health issues or tourettes involved so didn't do or say anything. Luckily ds was oblivious.

That incident in the link is apalling.

thisisyesterday · 02/01/2010 23:48

well i wouldn't ripeberry, and i'm a normal mum! (i think)
i'd be more concerned about my child and looking after them than worrying about the woman who did it to them

edam · 02/01/2010 23:48

It's all very well going on about how you'd have punched her, or your husband would have rugby-tackled her, but actually that would probably just upset your child even more. You'd be too ruddy shocked to do anything, and once you'd gained the ability to react, you'd be more interested in comforting your poor child than getting into some stupid fight.

What the woman did was horrible, but FGS, we aren't a nation of thugs.

MiladyDeWinter · 03/01/2010 00:03

It's true, I probably would have tried to get into a corner somewhere shaking with adrenaline and gibbering red-faced until the rage and fear passed.

Even then I would have been a wreck. That's me though - all non-confrontational. It scares the crap out of me because I was once caught up in a gang thing at a shopping centre which involved nearly being pulled four stories off an escalator.