A woman who posted a photo to Facebook of what appears to be her two young toddlers is now under investigation. The kids have duct tape over their mouths and around their hands.
The Daily Mail reports,
The person who posted the picture, Facebook user Jaton Justsilly Jaibabi, appears to be the children’s mother, but that has not been confirmed as she has since deactivated her account.
She caption the shocking photo, ‘Kids For Sale, 45% Off because they bad’.
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As many Facebook users are outraged at the photo and are demanding that the children be taken out of the home, the woman’s cousin, Derion King, is defending her.He wrote in a Facebook post on his page that it was ‘just a practical joke’.
‘I don’t really to much care about the people they have opinions,’ a post on King’s Facebook page reads.
‘Our family and friends know the love we have for all the kids in our family it’s just crazy that out of a whole lifetime they judge a person off of this one event.
‘Basically a joke at the moment that people just went overboard about. People make mistakes and that’s what this situation is, a lesson learned. They are safe, unharmed, and loved that’s all it is to it.’
Now, 50 years ago this wouldn’t have been a big deal, in fact many people might have found it amusing. But times change, and society’s attitude toward what constitutes excessive or unjust discipline toward children changes as well. Should this mother have her kids taken away from her? Of course not. But she really should use her head when considering how to discipline her kids. It’s not like this was the only way to discipline them, she could have made them sit in the corner for an hour.