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Oh, wow .... I've shot cold water at mine with the kitchen sink sprayer-thingy before, but they weren't toddlers when I did it.
That's terrible, she could have really hurt her with that thing.
By John Springer
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 11:17 a.m. CT, Fri., March. 7, 2008
A Florida mother caught on tape using a pressurized hose at a car wash to discipline her toddler daughter could end up in hot water after police meet Friday to consider filing child endangerment charges.
“She appeared [to be] a parent who thought she was disciplining her child for acting up. It’s a unique form of punishment that I don’t think anyone has ever seen,” Commander Matt Irwin of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said Friday on TODAY. “It’s not acceptable in my mind.”
The incident began on Feb. 24 when a white Hyundai Elantra pulled into a self-service bay at the Magical Car Wash in Orlando.
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Although children often can be heard screaming and carrying on, manager Marlene Diaz told TODAY’s David Gregory that the shrieks she heard from one little girl that day were quite different and disturbing.
“The screams were more high-pitched. There were more cries of help,” Diaz said.
Diaz went to investigate the commotion but did not intervene. She did not get the full picture until later, when she reviewed her company’s security camera recordings.
“When I saw her, her face was red. You could see that she was crying, and that [by] the way she was crying that she was in distress,” Diaz said.
Summoned by Diaz, police later determined that the toddler’s mother, who is 22 and five months pregnant, pulled into the car wash for the sole purpose of hosing down her daughter — possibly for wetting herself in the backseat of the car.
At the end of the surveillance tape of the incident, which police seized as potential evidence, the woman is seen stripping her daughter’s soaked clothes off and wrapping her up in a towel.
Tough love or child abuse?
Diaz said she struggled to imagine what infraction the child could have committed to warrant being hosed down like that, and couldn’t come up with any excuse for the mother’s action. She said it was clear that the woman was trying to teach the child some sort of lesson.
“The mother was speaking in Spanish,” Diaz said. “She said, ‘You are not going to disrespect me. You are not going to treat me bad. Don’t worry, I’m not going to hit you now. I’m just going to spray you with cold water.’”
Oh, wow .... I've shot cold water at mine with the kitchen sink sprayer-thingy before, but they weren't toddlers when I did it.
That's terrible, she could have really hurt her with that thing.
Pressurized cold water, I'm sure, can hurt like a .
Cool, sorta like tasers for moms.
"don't power-wash me, Mo" WHOOSH!!!
If it were actually a power washer, she should go to jail. Those things can remove skin.
That being said, the "wand on" setting of a stall car wash is about 10% of the pressure of a power washer. I'm sure it was cold, and the child didn't like it, and she shouldn't have done it, but I don't think it's criminal.
What's the big deal? She wrapped her in a towel afterwards. Now that's love.
Considering good ol' Al Zimmerman used to work for the state agency in charge of child services, you're more than right.
Water is one thing, but I've been to that type of car wash many a time, and I've tried to use the sprayer to clean soap off my hand, it can really hurt like a if you put it too close, and if her face was red it's certainly possible she did put it close.
I'd give her the benefit of the doubt based on what she said, she didn't even think it was as bad as spanking her, in reality it probably was, but sometimes people make mistakes.
Toddler should be between one and three, she shouldn't be wetting her pants at four or five...
Couldn't have been any colder than the swim on the way over...
Count on it!
Pretty mean. Thank goodness she didn't spray the kid in the face.
it doesn't wet it's pants or it gets the hose again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrA2k1zasm8
I can say from personal expierence, pressurized water at a warm temp hurts like !!!Pressurized cold water, I'm sure, can hurt like a .
Still, the mother did not have to use the car wash pressurized wand on the child, Most of those places have a sink to rinse off chamoises, she could have gotten water from there instead.
Another future adult who will require psychiatric help to urinate.
Remember kids, peeing is not caused by the devil. You will not go to for doing it.
What the ?
And it would have been free....
Florida + single mom = disaster
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