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ATLANTA – A Georgia man has been found guilty of second degree child cruelty for slapping a crying 2-year-old at a Walmart.

Roger Stephens of Stone Mountain was convicted Tuesday in a Gwinnett County bench trial, which is held without a jury.

Stephens, who was 61 when arrested, will spend six months in jail followed by six months of home confinement.

Authorities say the girl and her mother were shopping on Aug. 31, when the toddler began crying. The police report says Stephens approached the mother and said, “If you don’t shut that baby up, I will shut her up for you.”

Authorities say Stephens then slapped her four or five times.

According to police, Stephens said: “See, I told you I would shut her up.”

A call to Stephens’ court-appointed lawyer was not immediately returned.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    LMMFAO!!!! Wait, I know this is not cool, this man slapping this womans child four or five good times…I would be LIVID as a parent if someone slapped my child, but we ALL Have come across that ONE little kid who just wont STFU and we WANTED to snatch his/her lil azz up and do what the parents just wont do…I DONT condone it…But damn I understand!! Im just sayin….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Prina82/ Prina82

    Wow i am glad you think slapping a child is funny. The child is only two but i am soooo happy that you see something so damn funny about this. Yes CALIFEMME23 I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kris_87/ Kris_87

    hell, i find humor in it too. LMAOOOO…Cali, you said it all!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shippper2009/ shippper2009

    the moms needed a slap herself for not disciplining her baby herself. thas why im a firm believer in a women’s right to be pro choice.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jack_Stephen1/ Jack_Stephen1

    the old man has the right idea! one of the reason today’s kids are deliquents and menaces is because parents don’t get out the belt and the schools don’t use the paddle! i remmber in 4th grade ms. ferns put the paddle on my a55! i love seein a a bad a55 kid gettin his/her a55 tore up!

    p.s.
    there’s a difference between abuse and punishment and i don’t support the former.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sanfordtyrone/ sanfordtyrone

    OKAY ,now where did he slap the child at?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/keli_2007/ keli_2007

    i think it is bulls**t that all you people think it is okay to slap a child that isnt yours and the fact that so many of you guys find it FUNNY blows me away honestly who knows how the mother punishes her child but it is never okay to slap a child in public and im glad that im not that woman because if i was i would be in trouble too becausei would have to beatthe s**t out of the a*****e that thought it was okay to put his hands on my son

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ambitious_balla/ ambitious_balla

    Thats whats wrong with kids nowadays. Nobody puts hands on them anymore! I commend this cat. I mean, he definitely went about it the wrong way…but the MOTHER is at fault. Nothing worse than parents with no disregard for the others around them.

    I remember getting my ass whooped by a neighbor and then getting sent home to get it again. It takes a village to raise a child. We stopped wanting other people to discipline our kids and look at our communities now. Most of you are prisoners in your own neighborhood because you’re scared of the kids who live there.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Splash_Waters253/ Splash_Waters253

    Lmao! Ya’ll know damn well the thought has crossed your mind when u wanted to slap an annoying, crying child because their parents wouldn’t. This s.hit is absolutely hilarious. Good one dude!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SCHLR/ SCHLR

    ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? Not only would he not have gotten the chance to hit my child the first time, but he would have had a gash in his head from everything within reach at the counter we were at. Kids CRY. It is a natural emotional response. If you ignore a child when they are crying for nothing, that teaches them that that is an inappropriate response. If you react everytime they cry that teaches them that they will get a reaction if they cry. My child cried at times in wal-mart between the ages of 1-2. I acted as if I didn’t know him, and continued to push the basket through the store. It only happened a few times, before he began to deal with my No. But if anyone thinks it is ok for a grown man to hit a child not once but multiple times, that they don’t know, then you need to be locked up next to that crazy old man. Now if the child’s mom had hit the child in the store, the child would be in state custody and the mother would be in jail for a lot longer than 6 months. GIVE ME A BREAK! I wish a n****a WOULD!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SuzyQ38/ SuzyQ38

    PAHLEEZE!! His ass wouldn’t have made it out of the store ALIVE to be convicted or spend any jail time, I would have killed him right there on the spot. Maybe that’s not the ‘correct’ thing to say but I don’t care. When it comes to my children I am like a mama bear, you hurt them and I will SWAT YOUR ASS QUICK!!!

    Sure, we’re are all human and we get annoyed with kids who cry and scream in public, but I would NEVER even think about putting my hands on someone else’s child. I have a three yr old and am BLESSED because she is very well behaved, However, she’s had her moments in public, all kids do. Smacking someone else’s child is never the solution, I hope his jail buddies take gooooood care of him……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Prina82, Yeap I thought the shyt was and still is HILARIOUS! I guess you didnt read my ENTIRE post because I said I dont condone it at all…and I would be LIVED if someone hit my kid…BUT on the other hand I ALWAYS HAVE CONTROL OF MY KID IN PUBLIC! See I dont know where youre from or how you were raised but I’m from that DIRTY SOUTH, that OLD SCHOOL where as young as the kid being 7 months old you can give that lil mufukka a LOOK and he/she knows to SHUT THE FUKK UP OFF TOP! When people are in public they are still responsible for not only their children, but they also have to RESPECT those around them. I dont want to go out somewhere and some HOLLERIN no manners having azz kid is blazin away and the parents arent doing shyt about it.

    I’ll be honest with you, I have been that person in a store or mall or wherever and saw a kid clownin, yellin, and the parents are saying “Stop that Bobby, come here Bobby, Bobby would you please put that back!”, I’ll step up QUICK and tell little Bobby myself..”Hey, didnt you hear your mother tell you to stop runnin and put that back? Do what she says do!!”. PERIOD! Like Ambitious_Balla stated, kids dont get hands laid on em anymore…And I REFUSE to be that prisoner in my neighboorhood, scared of the SAME little bastid that was once a 2 year old all outta control…KEEP YA KIDS IN CHECK PEOPLE! Fukk what Dr. Phil says, whoop them nyggas azzes!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sweet-n-evil-89/ sweet-n-evil-89

    I don’t condone what he did, I would have knocked his ass out (my child wouldn’t have been actin out in public); but I gotta give it to him, he did what many of us have only thought about doing to some badass child cryin in a store. But the way I grew up all my mom or grandma had to do was give me a look and I stopped whatever the hell I was doing. Some children need their asses beat, DAILY; F**k a time-out: I don’t even know what that word means. That’s how it was in the south, I say “was” cause those whoopins that I used to get don’t seem to be happenin anymore. SMH it’s a shame though cause I’ve seen some kids I would love to smack one good time.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/T2003J/ T2003J

    Haha did he do it in front of an officer. Try to explain that to your jail mates. That kid could have been giving one good acting crys. Especially in walmart. come on now. you know your child want something up in that big store

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Splash_Waters253/ Splash_Waters253

    CaliFemme, damn u covered everything nuff said. You got a bratty child stay ya a.ss home with the rugrat or hire a f/ucking babysitter nobody wants to hear that s.hit. Especially when shopping may be a getaway for some of us hardworking folks. Thank God I was raised with discipline and passed that on to my children. Knowing damn well those dog leashes don’t work for them little knucklehead a.ss monsters. Beat they a.ss damnit!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Midwest_Vinyl_Vixen/ Midwest_Vinyl_Vixen

    That child got some black understanding LOL!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Baby_Oklahoma/ Baby_Oklahoma

    I understand that he was wrong for what he did (in a way), but I was raised southern-style. If you effed up at school, you got it from the teacher, moms, and pops whenever he got in from work. I hated life for it at the time, but I’m glad I got it. Lord knows how many times I wanted to yoke up some bad a$$ munchkin running rampant in Wal-Mart. I never thought I’d see the day when someone actually DID it. I have no children of my own (yet), but I’ve helped raise my nieces and nephews. I would’ve gone straight donkey kong apesh*t in the store had anyone laid a finger on any one of them. It would never happen because 1.they know better and 2) I’ll tear their little asses up when we got home. Lol. The belt works. People need to start using them again.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WholeLottaBodyHottie/ WholeLottaBodyHottie

    1st of all, that first slap would have never happenend!!!! And if it did, for some earth moving reason, the 4 or 5 other slaps would have been on his ass with my shopping cart.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WholeLottaBodyHottie/ WholeLottaBodyHottie

    *happened yall know what I mean! LOL…still mad about that situation.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nefertiti313/ Nefertiti313

    If I remember the original story correctly, the man who slapped this beautiful black child was white. This incident happened in the south. I venture to say that this Cracker’s reaction to a crying white “cracker crumb” would not have been the same. Given his age, he reminisced back to the days of Jim Crow, when a Cracker could crack a whip on a black man’s back without any penalties or consequences. In my opinion, this was not a case of “a village raising a child”, but rather, an Ol’ Southern Cracker who was stuck in a time period when it was okay to do whatever he deemed necessary to put a N—-r in his or her place.

    I am, however, happy that this woman was able to compose herself and not react to his ignorance with violence. If she had responded, she would have been the one doing jail time. I lived in Atlanta for most of my adult life, and as much as things have changed, they still remain the same… Racism is alive and well in Dixie Land.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    Wow? That man was really ASKING for a beatdown himself! He was a Senior? He just don’t know, he could have hit the WRONG child & instead of him facing jail time, he’s be facing a funeral & burial!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dutchesof3/ dutchesof3

    @Baby_Oklahoma THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE CHILD RUNING AROUND ACTING UP. SHE WAS IN THE CART CRYING. SHE 2 SHE CAN CRY. WHO IS HE TO SLAP A CHILD THAT WAS NOT DOING ANYTHING OTHER THAN CRYING. HE COULD HAVE WENT TO ANOTHER WALMART IF IT WAS LIKE THAT. THEY ALL OVER THE PLACE. YOU SAID YOU DONT HAVE KIDS. WHEN YOU DO YOU BETTER HOPE THEY DONT CRY. I HOPE THEY DONT CRY CAUSE YOU GONA LET SOME STRANGE MAN COME UP AND SLAP THEM.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/chanell_on_fire/ chanell_on_fire

    i support in tough love but guys we talkin about a 2 year old
    i remember i wouldnt do shyt out in public cuz mom n dad would give me the look of wait for home u dead u lil bratt lol but u dont slap a 2 year old and definatly someone elses child they still babies- babies cry its nature lol how u know why the kid was crying maybe she was sick/ hungry?
    i wouldve went to jail rigth with the old cat for beatin his ass for layin his hands on my child str8 up

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mende_J/ Mende_J

    I usually don’t comment, but some of the post are absolutely insane. IT DID NOT SAY THE CHILD WAS ACTING UP- IT SAID THE CHILD WAS CRYING. Since when is crying a reason to beat a child. It is absolutely sick that some people think abusing a child is acceptable-particularly someone else’s child. To those accuse bad behavior on not being beaten- No the problem with some children is that they are beaten from day one and all they know is violence. ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL. As Malcolm X lamented: “My people, my people.” :-(

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WestsideCartelAtl85/ WestsideCartelAtl85

    SMFH at these ignorant comments. Y’all would let a random person regardless of color to put their hands on your child? It’s careless people on this site. That White man was in the wrong for he done. A foot would of been in azz if he touched my niece. It’s same shyt, different day. Y’all go along to get along negroes just don’t get it until something happens to y’all.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/symphonee/ symphonee

    The child was crying b/c she was sick and didn’t feel well. So is it so funny now.

    We all remember the times when neighbors could whip you and send you home but he was not a neighbor just a random man. IT’S WALMART! Kids cry in Walmart, homeless people piss in Walmart. It is a public place where children are allowed. If he didn’t like her crying he could have moved to the next aisle or even just ASKED WHAT WAS WRONG!

    I have wanted to slap the monkey nuts out of some bad kids in stores but if I don’t know the parents, I don’t touch . And I certainly am not smacking a 2 year old repeatedly in the face.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    A 2 year old can’t comprehend right from wrong yet. This dude was in the wrong. When I think of unruly kids that need to be smacked is those ones tht run around tearin up sh!t and beggin they parents to buy this and that. Spoiled brats and sh!t liek dat. Them the ones that need they asses beat not sum infant that can barely walk and understand sh!t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsSqueezem/ MsSqueezem

    Um Im curious as to what the mother did when she watched her child get smacked a couple of tiimes

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST/ CAROLINAGIRLSRDABEST

    Im glad they gave his a$$ some time in jail and now he will have to listen to grow a$$ men cry and everything else…I wonder if he will slap one of them? If it was my child are if I was there when it happen he would have got his a$$ beat-down. You don’t slap a little baby in the face and you don’t touch them if its not your child. The mother of the child need her a$$ beat for standing there and not doing sh*t.(JMO)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_12-PLAY/ MR_12-PLAY

    Now I don’t agreed with what he did but comeon now people just let their children do everything and won’t say no stop or pop the damn child. 2 year-olds know right from wrong….kids are an expression of bad or good parenting. The man got 6 months in jail and the woman that sat on her husbands he and killed him got 3 months in jail lol
    One sided

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    MR_12-PLAY-No disrespect but this was a grown a$$ man who slapped a 2yr old in the face more than once and was not the father nor kin to the child. And thats the big differents and this girl who sit on her boyfriend/baby dady is a horse of a different color. May she didn’t mean to or something else happen that maded the hold thing turn out like it did as for the old man he went to far and thats why he got 6months and he lucky they didn’t give him more time than that because of his age.(JMO)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Sub-Negro,

    What kind of 2 year olds are you coming across? Dont know right from wrong? barely walk? WTF? I have a three year old nephew and he is the talking-est, walking-est, baddest little shyt I have ever come across…BUT when hes in public all his moms has to do is give him that ‘LOOK’!, yes we ALL know that LOOK, and he shuts the freak up on the spot. I agree with MR_12-PLAY, kids are a reflection of the parents at that age. Anytime a kid acts up the FIRST thing that is said is..”Damn, where is his/her momma at?”. Now again, I dont condone this stranger slapping the kid, oh hell no, I wish a nlgga would lat hands on my kid..BUT once again, I always have had and will have a respectable well mannered child in public no matter what the age…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ambitious_balla/ ambitious_balla

    First off, I’m not too fond of b***hery, so I have to address this old ass, “2-feet-in-the-grave” cat who bangs online. This guy “shackt” sends me this NOTE:

    “Dumbass shut the f**k up. An old white man assaults a 2 year old and you say good. What kind of sick MF are you? If it was your child what then, I’ll tell you what nothing because your a little fag that wouldn”t of said s**t. Take that uniform off you disgust me fagget! What a f**king coward!”

    Now this dude is damn near 50 years old and talking s**t ONLINE. Yet he calls ME a coward.

    Just had to expose the “Geritol Gangsta”.

    But moving along. Again, I’m not saying dude was right, but again, I came from a household where that certain look stopped all of that. If people were properly DISCIPLINING their children at home, they wouldn’t have these issues out in public. I remember when my little sister was 2. Moms wasn’t having it. She thought she would act a fool once time while out and moms snatched her up right then and there and wore her ass out! NEVER had a problem again.

    So I don’t wanna hear all this s**t about “kids cry…thats what they do” and “if you ignore them, they’ll stop.” For those of you unfamiliar with psychology, there’s a positive AND a negative reinforcement. TWO different means of getting someone to do what you WANT them to do. Giving them candy to stop crying is positive reinforcement. Whooping that ass is negative. Either way, that child stops crying. So don’t act like just because YOU don’t wanna put hands on your kid that means that its okay to disturb others around you. Why SHOULD he had had to go to another Wal-Mart because HER kid wouldn’t stop crying? How come SHE couldn’t leave or go to another one?

    We too often want to say “poor victim” when they put THEMSELVES in s**tty positions. If I jump over a fence that says “KEEP OUT” and get mangled by a dog, WHY will everybody gravitate to ME and say “oh, poor guy. That dog needs to be put down!” Thats stupid to me. Sometimes people need to AVOID putting themselves in those kinds of situations. If you KNOW your kid is crybaby, find a babysitter.

    I bet ya’ll are the type of parents who sits in the movies while your child cries instead of walking out with them and gets upset when someone says something cause they cant hear.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    symphonee, No, the child not feeling well isnt funny at all(Why did moms have the kid out and she was sick anyway)…But come on now, we ALL have had the SAME exact thoughts that this man had, we just exhibited more restraint than he did. No he shouldnt have hit the kid..but some of us in this forum UNDERSTAND his ‘sentiment’ behind it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mende_J/ Mende_J

    To those people who keep saying- thAT everyone has had the SAME thought that this terrible example of a human being had- NO EVERYONE DOES NOT FEEL THAT THE BEST RESPONSE TO A CRYING CHILD IS TO BEAT THEM. CHILD ABUSERS AND PEOPLE WHO CAN NOT PROPERLY DISCIPLINE CHILDREN THINK THAT!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jenlonte/ jenlonte

    First off…. there would not be a man alive slap my child and get to walk out of walmart without a busted grill… it dose not matter that this baby was crying… he has heard kids cry all his life. they are everywhere and they cry everywhere..regardless of why or where the kid was crying that was non of his business to interfere with that family. I wish a nigga would!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/one_in_a_million83/ one_in_a_million83

    Someone never would have had the chance to put their hands on either of my children because that crying all through the store never would have happened in the first place. I DONT condone what this man did regardless of what race him or the baby were but people control your damn children. yes the child is 2 but you can still discipline a 2 year old and the is a big difference between discipline and child abuse..i remember getting the look and then being told “ill give you a reason to cry you wanna cry” and also the days when you got whooped by every momma down the street until you got home and you got it again but at the same time that would have never happened again with my child, but then again my kids dont act a fool in public even at 2 years old they were behaved!!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mikeytrain/ mikeytrain

    reminds me of tha time i almost got into it with this black bytch at church cuz my lil sis was cryin… lol

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tishreni/ tishreni

    I live in Los Angeles with all these Spanish people and their kids are anoying as hell.I would never ever think of putting my hands on anyones kids to shut them up.Thats not my place.What you do is make sure you dont have to be in places where alot of any of this is going on.Out here it’s damn near everywhere if your lower income!Walmart,K-mart,laundrymat,99cent stores..etc.

    I work from home right now so i try to pick the best hours to go to the store so i wont be annoyed that much, because not only are kids annoying the parents arents any better with training them how to behave in public!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sugar-n-spice06/ sugar-n-spice06

    An old a$$ man would have gotten his a$$ beat that day. They would have had to cart him off to the hospital and me off to jail. That is it and that is all.

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