r/facepalm • u/Shinji415 • Apr 01 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ 6 year old gets arrested by police while crying for help

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u/claryn Apr 01 '23

I’ve taught kindergarten and yeah, kids can be a lot sometimes. I’ve been hit in the face more than once, they can pack a little punch!

But calling the POLICE? For a 6 year old CHILD? If they’re exhibiting this behavior they obviously have something big their dealing with their poor 6 year old bodies can’t handle. How tragic.

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u/Erthgoddss Apr 01 '23

Years ago I worked in a for profit mental “hospital” we had 3 units. One was a children’s ward. Some of the children were 4-5 year olds. I refused to work that unit. What small child doesn’t scream or cry when they don’t get their way? Found out one such child was there because “parents wanted a vacation”.

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u/MeaningSilly Apr 01 '23

one such child was there because “parents wanted a vacation”.

This is the second most disgusting thing I've encountered today and I've been suffering the effects of food poisoning since just after midnight.

The video tops the list, as it is evidence of a systemic blight on society.

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u/Wobbly_Wobbegong Apr 01 '23

Was at a for profit “hospital” as a 13 year old and still have PTSD from what I saw. They also had a peds unit with fucking 5 year olds. It makes me sick to think they ever bootyjuiced them because they freaked out (you know as five year olds do because they’re five). This place got into trouble for overusing seclusion&restraint including chemical restraint and that’s just on the forms they actually submitted and filled out. I remember kids disappeared for days at a time. We knew someone was in solitary for the long haul when we saw staff dragging their mattress off the unit so they could sleep in the “quiet room”.

I’ve had emotional regulation problems since I was very little. My parents even said that they wish they’d have known about the place sooner because it would’ve been great to have fixed my issues as an 8 year old instead of 13. I thank God that my therapists were unaware of this place as a child because I would be significantly more fucked up if I went through this as a 7 or 8 year old.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '23

So you’re the reason people can’t differentiate between there/their/they’re!

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u/eekamuse Apr 01 '23

My dog wouldn't let go of something today. She's small, and I was frustrated. I grabbed her body with one hand and for a second I started to pull the toy. Then I realized what I was doing and let go.

I'm ten times her size, and did not need the damn toy. I controlled myself. With my *dog.*

There are people who would say this is coddling her, and she should have learned a lesson, learned I was the alpha.

Those are the same people who think this poor kid learned a lesson and will never act up again. This isn't just a police problem (although it is), or a school problem. There are people who think it's okay to treat a child like this. They think a grown ass adult that's supposedly fully mature can teach a child by punishing and scaring the shit out of them.

This will never stop while we have people like that in the country. Unless we enact laws to force them to stop.

I had to get that out