8 year old lashed 25 times by clerk

http://www.khou.com/news/Store-clerk-spanks-8-year-old-kid-25-times-with-a-belt-189810131.html

WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. (KMOV.com) –A Georgia sales clerk has been charged withassault after allegedly beating an 8-year-old customer 25 times with a belt.

Logan Ivey said a Dollar General clerk, Emilia Bell, walked down the aisle where he was standing and started calling the boy a demon.
“So, I said, ‘I’ll show you bad,’ and I picked up a cookie and I threw it at her,” said Logan.
After the confrontation, Logan Ivey said he tried to hide behind the counter. He said the clerk found him and doled out the whooping.
“And I was crying real bad because she had actually hurt me,” said Logan, “When I had actually got up from when she stopped whipping me my pants were actually a little bit warm.”
Logan said the clerk hit his back with a belt.
"I felt like I had five needles sticking in me, then it really hurt. I was screaming, ‘Momma.’"
Wrightsville Police Chief Paul Sterling said the surveillance footage shows he was hit 25 times which is why they charged the clerk with aggravated assault Monday night.
"It wasn't a spanking, it was more or less a beating than a spanking the way she was hitting him, you know?” said Chief Sterling, “I don't know how to explain it. It just - I don't even like to think about it."
While the video of what happened inside the dollar general hasn't been released, Logan's family said it would provide more answers.
"I just wish everybody could see the video because everybody makes comments about what it should be and what they should have done as far as the parent and all that,” said Logan’s father, “but if they seen the video it would be a lot different, you know, because it shows how many times she really hit him and how bad it was."
Logan's father describes his son as a typical boy.
"I mean he likes to play. You have to get onto him just like any other kid, but he didn't deserve to be beat with no belt like that by nobody else."
The child said he has regrets for Monday night, but not for mouthing off or throwing the cookie. He said he regrets being spanked two days before his birthday.
The clerk, Bell, did not want to comment.

Obviously the clerk was in the wrong, but it sounds like the kid was a little smurf.

Quoting draven:" http://www.khou.com/news/Store-clerk-spanks-8-year-old-kid-25-times-with-a-belt-189810131.html"

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What the smurf...no one deserves to be beaten like that.

I think if someone threw a cookie at me, I probably wouldn't beat them with a belt.

Sounds like he is a little smurf. Where were his parents I wonder

Oh, no. Nope. See, if someone ... a smurfing stranger beat my kid, they'd better be able to run really, really goddamn fast.

He was 8 yrs old, and no parents in site to see this happen or to stop it?

Where were they?

That's a bit much but also where were the parents? My daughter never goes anywhere alone. I especially wouldn't let her go to a store alone, jeez. Also if I heard that my child did that I would have spanked her. What a little smurf, not remorseful for being rude and nasty, on mad he got punished before his birthday. If it were my child she wouldn't have a birthday. I'd make her go to the store and sweep or something to help out.

Quoting Danielle: Jack&Basil'sMom:" Oh, no. Nope. See, if someone ... a smurfing stranger beat my kid, they'd better be able to run really, really goddamn fast."

For serious.

Kid definitely needed a spanking, but not from a random woman with a belt. *shakes head*

Uhhh where the SmUrf were his parents!??!?!

Quoting Ur Local Frnt Desk Clrk:" He was 8 yrs old, and no parents in site to see this happen or to stop it? Where were they?"

That's what I was wondering. The kid got hit 25 times and the parents didn't intervene? And it said he was screaming.

The kid behaved inappropriately, but the clerk had no right to do what she did. Especially as severe as that.

Where were the parents?

I'm pro spanking in certain situations.

BUT, that was not a spanking. That was abuse. Plus that wasn't her child. If the child's father did the same thing people would call cps and that cops. So I'm glad that clerk is getting in trouble. However, where were the parents? I know for a fact myself or my husband wouldn't let 25 lashes happen ever!