Stranger allegedly slaps crying child in store
A Georgia man allegedly slapped a toddler at a Walmart store because she wouldn’t stop crying, authorities said.Roger Stephens, 61, was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree cruelty to children. An incident report obtained from police in Gwinnett County indicated Stephens did not know the 2-year-old girl he stands accused of hitting.
The confrontation happened shortly before noon at the Walmart in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta.
According to the arresting officer, the child’s mother said her daughter was crying as they walked down one of the aisles.
The mother said a stranger later identified as Stephens approached them and said, “If you don’t shut the baby up, I will shut her up for you.”
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@ Johanna - I hope you dont have kids and if you do, God willing this never happens to them… The mother definitely should have handled the little girl, but nobody, that I dont know should ever put there hands on my child. And he dare you make the assumption that she was a lazy low-life? Pitiful…….. Nonetheless, I live in GA not far from that area and I know if it had been me, I would have mopped WalMarts floor with his face. And that would have been the only deal…. Getting my stilettos out of his throat would have been the only reason to call the police.
I don’t see the big deal!! A screaming brat refuse to stop crying, while her lazy no account mother thinks nothing is wrong with her brat screaming for an hour. This poor man got tired of it and reacted! No biggie! Only thing he did wrong is he should have smacked her lasy low life mother instead of the child.