Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store.

[arnisador]

Stranger accused of slapping crying child at store (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/02/national/a114143D14.DTL)


Police say a 61-year-old man annoyed with a crying 2-year-old girl at a suburban Atlanta Walmart slapped the child several times after warning the toddler's mother to keep her quiet.

A police report says after the stranger hit the girl at least four times, he said: "See, I told you I would shut her up."


Roger Stephens of Stone Mountain is charged with felony cruelty to children.

[Carol]

Good lord. What gets in to these people?

[arnisador]

I have to believe he's mentally ill...it's hard to explain otherwise.

[Carol]

That's the only reasonable conclusion that I could draw too. Even still though....yikes.