the even worse part in the article is that the MOTHER actually asked the cop to tase her own daughter. WTF. No wonder the girl was throwing a temper and wouldn't listen to her SHITTY mother.

Who in their right mind decided that a device designed to take down a full grown man could acceptably be used on a young girl?

Since when can parents call the cops and have them haul their ten-year-old children away because they don't listen? Since when do officers actually LISTEN to these people? There is a whole lot of blame to go around in this one, this whole story makes me sick.

From the article, "Ozark police were called to the home Nov. 11 after the girl's mother couldn't get the child to take a shower."

Wow. I know neighborhoods that can't get police to arrest the corner drug dealer, and here they have time to arrest a girl for not taking a shower? Really?

I may need to brush up on my criminal law, but I'm fairly sure 'not taking a shower' is not an arrestable offense. Grounding for sure. Spanking perhaps. I say put the mother, cop, and police chief on Time Out for sure.

This story repulsed me as well. First, who calls the cops because their child is having a tantrum?? Second, her father said she has emotional problems...so they cuff her, put her in a police car and plan to charge her as a juvenile with disorderly conduct? WTF? I just don't understand. This is wrong on so many levels/

That's terrible. It reminds me of a similar incident from not that long ago when the police officers involved used a taser on a boy and he died because of it. Tasers should not ever be used on children. It's unnecessary and could cause potentially life-threatening injuries or even death.

Since when did not taking a shower ever hurt anyone? Yeah it's bad hygiene, but hey, if the daughter wants to walk around like that, it's her deal. No need to call the cops.

Also, just another reason children shouldn't automatically be given over to the mom after divorces. Not all women are born to be mothers.

Gotta love the assumption people are making in the comments from that link: the reason the girl was poorly behaved was obviously because her mother wasn't tough enough on her. If only she'd beaten her more often!

Her mother called the freaking police and asked them to taser her daughter. She doesn't sound like much of a big ol' softie to me...

Oh god this is what scares me the most about police these days and it looks like its the same in the US.

Not that they have tasers necessarily (though I am against the use of tasers- they've just been introduced in Australia) but that the police use them to subdue people with just a cursory attempt at non-violent resolve.

When police aren't well enough trained to pacify a 10 year old having a tantrum or a drunk 16 year old that they need to taser them- I certainly lose some respect for their abilities at maintaining law and order.

I read the comments. Goodness help me I read the comments on the article. Apparently, the mother is to blame b/c she didn't spank the child enough. As someone who has had many spankings and went to schools that allowed paddling: doesn't work any better than any other type of punishment. Seriously, in some of the schools I went to the same kids always got the paddling (the child had the choice of accepting a paddling or getting out-of-school suspension). I actually supported that model for a long time b/c I figured that 5 strokes from a paddle was less harmful than repeatedly getting OSS which would mean they couldn't make up any work they missed. And I am only 22 so it especially sickens me when people lament about the "old days" when they had routine paddling in school and parents supposedly beat their kids more (that's especially a surprise b/c I know very few people who weren't subject to whoopings).
Beating kids doesn't seem to be all that productive and the supposed lack thereof can not be blamed for all of society's ills. People who say things like that disgust me and weirdly enough make me want to beat the daylights out of them with every object I was ever disciplined with (but sadly I don't own pumps or a broom). I'm still not against whoopings but become more so ever time I read or hear the opinions of people that are for them. Especially when it is on an article about a child who supposedly has emotional problems and the general response is "beat her ass" and "she deserved it, maybe it'll straighten her out."
And as other have noticed, WTF is up with the police interfering in this matter? I think the mother should get a false report citation. Your child acting out is not grounds for a domestic disturbance call unless they are being extremely violent to the point that people's, or their own, health is jeopardized. Now Madea is probably going to use a taser on a ten year old in the next Tyler Perry Madea movie and it will be played up for laughs and applause. If that happens the cop should get extra punishment on top of whatever he already gets (hoping he gets some).
Seriously (ranting, I know), if the situation is such that you ask permission chances are the taser was completely unnecessary. That's a freakin case closer right there. That the officer asked the mother's permission lets me know that they didn't feel the child was a threat.

I think its become clear that the taser is used way to casually and its time to take them away.

By the way, they can cause heart attacks.

Yeah, the article said she kicked the cop in the balls or something. That makes me laugh a little.

But anyway, the frickin' cop couldn't physically restrain a 10-year-old girl? What if the mother had helped grab her, or both of them had grabbed her so he could get the cuffs on her ... or frickin' anything? It's not like she had a weapon or was swinging a knife around. I'm pretty sure there must've been some non-taser options here that were ignored by all brilliant folk involved.

I have a mother who believed in corporal punishment. Spankings. Smacking. Pulling Hair.

Her temper and punishments were often unpredictable, too.

All it did was make me HATE HER and fantasize about smacking her back.

That is why I will never hit a child, because I dread the thought of someone viewing me that way.

Who the heck calls the cops because their daughter is having a temper tantrum? What cop in their right mind would actually arrest the kid, let alone cuff or taze her? Let's be real here. The daughter is having a fit. So... what? She wasn't a danger to anybody. She was kicking and screaming on the floor because she didn't want to take a shower. Besides, she's ten. That cop was a moron to pick her up in the first place -- has he ever hung out with any out-of-control children? Temper tantrum child = kick in the nuts. He should have walked right out of there the minute he found out what the "domestic disturbance" actually was. And now they're trying the kid for disorderly conduct... It's insane. Ridiculous behavior by everyone involved.

Stupid decision by the mother, stupid decision by the cop. Either restrain her till she tires herself out or let her scream and pout until she tires or take away her My Little Ponies until she takes a shower.

Taking away Ponies = Appropriate
Tasing = Not Appropriate.

Seems like a simple rule, right?

Oh No!!!! I was raised in Arkansas! How embarrassing....wait, shit like this happens all the time in Arkansas

Fun fact-the town where this happened is called Ozark, they're high school mascot is The Hillbilly. The Ozark Hillbillies.