"I was being a mother who loves her kids, who wants to protect her kids, and steer them in the right direction."Spears ran to her house after her neighbor told her that she had seen her kids burglarizing their other neighbour's home. Spears left work and ran home where she saw her children and some of their friends all carrying properties they had stolen. The friends ran out of the house but Spears was able to catch her 3 sons, aged 13, 12 and 10 and according to her, she whipped them with a belt. She also made them return the properties.
The son reported his mom to the authorities who came to the house, arrested Spears for child abuse and took all her 6 children from her. Her kids are 13, 12, 10, 8, 6 and 2 years old.
She was bailed from jail by a good Samaritan who heard about the incident and the subsequent arrest of Spears. She is also been currently represented pro-bono by a lawyer who saw the viral video of her interview.
"I reacted and I'm the bad guy, it's not right." "I'd rather discipline my kids than for them to be beaten in the street, caught in someone's home murdered, or in someone's prison and me having to visit," Spears said.Spears added that she is a good mum who sent all her children to great schools and they are all in honour rolls.
She said their father is in prison and she didn't want her children to end up there as well.
The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services said "reasonable, constructive discipline is a healthy part of parenting ...but it crosses into abuse when it leaves a child cut, burned, bloody or bruised."
The state attorney general is looking into the case, and the local district attorney still hasn't filed charges. If charges are filed, Spears could face 20 years in prison. Louisiana mom could face felony charges after punishing sons for robbery.
Watch the emotional interview below:
Source: WBRZ 2
63 comments:
Americans are the major cause of their own problems, how can you sentence a mother to 20 years in jail for trying not to spare the rod and spoil them lil criminals and actually Baton Rouge is a Neighborhood that has the most criminal activities record in the USA so i see no reason why the mom should be prosecuted trying to lead her kids through the right path.
Hian oyibo n prison ehn..there's nufing wrong for a mother to beat her child mbok
Oyibo and drama
I cried after watching the video, I feel what she feels as a mother that I am, so sad the way those people do things, those kids will come out to be bad criminals and end up in jail, as a parent you are not allowed to discipline your kids in their society, too bad
6 kids @ age 30 wow...
It seems we blacks can never outgrow extreme measures in punishing kids. We overuse that biblical quote of "Spare not the rod, and spoil not the child "
Imagine! Linda take note!
They should spare dis innocent wan mbok. If she doesnt discipline her kids who will? The same ppl will blame for not giving her kids good upbringing if anyth goes wrong in the future
Oyibo dey crase o if my daughter misbehave i will not spare her she go chop cain well well.
Na wa o. Children caught stealing should be pampered???? Hmmmm
Dis world don spoil ooo.Miss I'm sorry for what ure going tru.God will help u fight dis...neva deviate from correcting ur kids..they're yours to discipline...
If eventually she is been sentence to jail its absolutely wrong cus she want the bst for her children. Instead of the prision stuff let the court giv her a warnin not to use any whip that wil cause bruise in d body of her children.
I just want to make common sense.
The new world order
Oh my!!dats so unfair to av collected all her 6kids. Watching d video made me cry like a baby cos am a mother too and I know hw it feels to tak ones child away from her. Besides she needs to scold her children wen dey go wrong, spare d rod n spoil d child. Wen wl dis stupid oyinbo people get dat.
Eyaa!!. This is serious! I am what i am today because my mum put her feet's down and knock me together. For me you didn't abuse your kids, your only tried to stop them from being abused later in life. You have my prayers.
Sentencing her to 20years imprisonment because she did the obvious needful? Only in Abroad! This is just not funny...
Na me talk am!
Long Live Lib!!!
America is a shitty place for morals. They woul rather have a white kid shoot them like game animals than for a parent to discipline them. The so called givernment is not even addressing the theft. For those african folks still perpetuating the slave trade by going "abroad " to have their kids or sending High school bcos you got money. Well you need to open your eyes to this other side of that "great" country.
What rubbish, American people and their laws can sometimes be crazy and should be questioned, so they expect her to spare the rod while they can't spare the law. Or because she's black...
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Dey should free d woman abeg....dos kids are not it al...wiv their life style,dey could all end up in jail someday
The world is truly going crazy. Jesus should please come very soon.
Yankee!!!!!!!! Me, I have a Mark on my fine face arising from a Wire/Cable beating from my DAD. Guess what? I love him to pieces and I did not report to nobody
pardon her now
-D great anonymous now as Vivian Reginalds
This is one of the reasons why children will take guns to school and start shooting people,cos you don't allow their parents to discipline them while growing up. Some kids needs to be flogged.
Seriously? Mother being jailed for correcting her kids. This is absolutely off it. They are just gonna allow the kids grow up and end like their dad.
They should leave that woman alone. Instead her children should be charged for burglary. This is how this stupid US laws aid children to be hardened criminals when the grow up. She should just be cautioned not to do it again. Taking her kids from her and sentencing her is inappropriate before God and man. Those kids are lucky they are not in Africa.
Eyah. America and their laws will not allow a black woman to exercise her motherhood
Should I call this rubbish or stupid culture? Tis d more reason y they will always have thugs and more gay club shootings cos these children are just gun wielding thieves waiting to happen.Madam carry your children come naija come train,I go rent apartment for you. Wen dem don chop cane their head go straight.
What lesson exactly is this justice system teaching these? What rubbish!
na wah ooo. smh. US sef what kinda law is that? though she was not suppose to beat with such things but at the same time she was upset and never wanted her children to end being a prisoner. she actually acted out of anger and future consequences
Whaoooo
All this kind of trap laws to destroy children and whn they grow up they get a room for them In jail.
She should bring her kids to Nigeria...
Na wa o. Some whites self. 20years is too much na,haba!they should reconsider abeg
Lib addict#just passing#
Hmmmmmm
...merited happiness
She's a very fertile woman
No be for Naija,dis is rubbish
Just sharap there, ewu. So she should allow them little devils to end up in prison like their father instead of disciplining them abi?
Your dad caught you fingering the hired help?
Linda, this ur headline is too dramatic. Especially since charges haven't been filed yet!!!
Shut up okpo, mpama, otondo, ezi, efi, idiot, onye ara
****************************dix ix d only time I remember and appreciate d fact dat ayam a Nigerian !!!!!!!!!!!!
IN NIGERIA HERE, IS THE CHILD THAT WILL STILL GO TO JAIL.
AUNTY LINDA....
Stfu..may u bear children who will steal and end up killing you.EWU
Well, the eldest is 13, that means mother was first pregnant at 17...
I don't hit my children but jailing this woman for trying to discipline her children for stealing is all shades of wrong. ( unless there is more to it)
D mother shld be given an award for disciplining her children rather than 20 years imprisonment... This oyibo people self!
Those boys will still end up like their father because the so call system does not do much for them.This is from frying pan to fire.
She should have kissed their heads and said, "sweethearts, please make good choices ok?". And they will continue to be their entitled selves - ending up druggies or in jail or both.
Americans are all devil incarnate. That's reason every immoral and evil start from them. Ndi ara over my dead body to bring up my children in such devilish country. Even if I become richest man in de world it can never happen.
I just cried.its so painful.i don't know....God please come to her aid
America is mad! They would rather want those children to grow up into robbers and whores, get shot dead and abused by white policemen and then blame bad black parenting skills! That's a whole lot of horse ass and that is why they are morally piss poor! Am not surprised because that is what you get by thinking you are way smarter than God. He makes foolishness into wisdom for the wise and learned. Where are Oprah, Michelle and Hilary??? This is the time for them to prove their worth as women and mothers. Dear strong, morally correct, independent, wholesome black mother, the Lord is your strength because you are a saint in a world that cloaks and justifies evil. He will not abandon or forsake you. Hold your head high and walk tall.
This sort of law has started taking its root in Nigeria, especially Lagos state. A friend of mine got arrested by the police for beating his househelp who has been cought stealing in the house several times. Nigeria is following suit.
Nawa oo...6 kids at 30......even the age differences r not that much. Hmmm nwanyi ume dikwa gi oo.
#Smart
AMERICA IS CRAZY! EVERY REASONABLE PERSON I KNOW IS SCARED TO RAISE THEIR KIDS IS THIS FUCKED UP COUNTRY. HOWEVER THERE ARE STILL GOOD PEOPLE WHO RAISE THEIR KIDS PROPERLY.
Bonita u be fowl......am very sureu be confirm gheto thief u are just defending ya kind....
6 Children at the age of 30?????? Well, She should just wipe away her tears and rejoice that she is free from spending. All the money she makes go to nice food and clothing for herself only. She shouldn't have used a cable to cause any injury. What happened to taking all their gadgets and no play time away? It showed that the children are wayward a long time. Buglarising people's house at that young age.
U sure u just went tru d headline ....Wen ur children Start stealing at tender age the best thing u could do is buy them a gun n they will end up killing u wt the same gun. Now we all know the kinda mother u will end up been .
Africa rocks... *smh
Africa rock... sorry ma'am. *smh
if she finally sentence to years in prison...this mean most children who has been influence by some peer group can go ahead to carry out there coup.after fear has been put in the mind of others parent. having for gotten about the so called called law.
Oyibo people are stupid. before u know it they will become terrorist.
says, Genevieve.
only a fool would support this woman!! stop domestic violence against children! there are decent ways to discipline a child
But she did d right thing
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