No Charges Planned for Mom Who Whipped Burglary Suspect Sons

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

No Charges Planned for Mom Who Whipped Burglary Suspect Sons

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BATON ROUGE, La. — Jul 1, 2016, 7:19 PM ET

A Louisiana district attorney said on Friday he has no intention of charging a 30-year-old mother arrested for whipping her three boys after she found out they had burglarized a neighbor's house.

Schaquana Spears was arrested June 20 in Baton Rouge and charged with two counts of cruelty to juveniles — felony charges.

A sheriff's report said she allegedly whipped her 13, 12 and 10-year-old boys. The report said lacerations on the 13-year-old's arms had bled and lacerations broke the skin on the 12-year-old's arm. The report said the 10-year-old was whipped too, but much less than his brothers.

But East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III told The Advocate (http://bit.ly/298OaNl), "At this time I have no intention to prosecute. It would take something significant to change my opinion."

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Source: The Advocate (Louisiana)

DA: No prosecution for Baton Rouge mom who whipped sons after they broke into neighbor’s home

JOE GYAN JR.
July 1, 2016; 0:23 p.m.

Citing the state’s cruelty to juveniles law that requires proof of a child’s “unjustifiable pain or suffering,” East Baton Rouge Parish’s chief prosecutor said Friday he doesn’t intend to prosecute a Baton Rouge woman arrested last week for whipping three of her sons because they broke into a neighbor’s home and stole items.

“At this time I have no intention to prosecute,” District Attorney Hillar Moore III said of Schaquana Evita Spears. “It would take something significant to change my opinion.”

Spears, a 30-year-old single mother of six children, was arrested on counts of cruelty to juveniles after she admitted striking three of her boys with a cord.

“It doesn’t fit ‘unjustifiable pain or suffering’,” Moore said of Spears’ actions.

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[metroins]

1. The children more likely need

Love and stability rather than a whipping.

[Warpy]

2. For breaking and entering and burglarizing a house?

These are things that get black kids sent to prison for many, many years. These are things that get them shot by the cops.

I think this mom just LOST IT. Given that much provocation, any of us might do the same.

She very likely regretted it five minutes after she did it when the welts showed up. I'm glad there are no charges being filed. I sincerely hope those kids don't do this shit again. I hope the mom can get through to them what the risks out there are for black kids who get into even the mildest of trouble--and this was serious.

[uponit7771]

4. +1, I've found out though taking away the internet for 35 seconds is worse than whippings to teenage

... teenagers so I do agree that she most likely lost it.

If they would've been shot then everyone would be looking for the parents and why they didn't raise the boys correctly

[metroins]

6. Creating more chaos

Through beating is not going to solve her problem. It shows the mom has low coping skills and the fact that all three of them were involved means this family needs help.

I hope CPS steps in and grants Family Based Social Services to help with parenting classes, therapy and if the mom qualifies for any assistance, they help her attain them. --not removal of children, unless the situation warrants-- if the children are burglarizing homes and getting beaten to blood, there's a family problem here.

Burglarizing a house can get any child or adult locked up for years regardless of race. I'm not going to turn my portion of this conversation into race.

I don't think jail helps many people, they really just need stability.

[Warpy]

7. I agree, but we all know how underfunded real help is and how little of it there is

thanks to the low priority of the needs of the people in this country.

I agree about the coping skills and the kids heading for real problems. That's why I hope she's able to get through to them and I'm glad the authorities didn't pursue this one with charges against her.

[mythology]

12. She's got 6 kids and is a single mom. I'd have long ago been curled up in the fetal position

Yes obviously she should have handled the situation better, but we as a society need to put parents (single or partnered) in a better position to succeed. We don't have quality after school programs in many poor and/or minority areas. We don't have enough ways for kids to be kept busy doing something productive (whether that's educational learning, learning art/music, sports, life skills like basic car maintenance or sewing/cooking skills, etc).

CPS isn't going to help by taking these kids and sticking them in the system. We should put CPS in a situation where these sort of kids get help before this.

Equally obviously beating her kids with a switch isn't the right choice. But I don't believe we as a society put her in a position to succeed either.

[metroins]

13. FBSS in CPS

Does not remove the children, family based social services in CPS gives access to resources such as parenting classes, therapy, evaluations.

I am not going to blame society on this one. I'm also not going to hindsight the mothers decision making in family decisions.

I'm just hoping somebody intervenes because these children likely have a very very low chance of success and I'm hoping the light national attention can possibly get intervention.

[840high]

8. Yes. Especially since the father

is in jail. She does not want the kids to end up in jail.

[Quayblue]

11. Good post nt

[Humanist_Activist]

15. They are, statistically, more likely to disregard her due to the use...

of violence as a discipline method.

It doesn't work.

[uponit7771]

3. I don't agree with the lacerations part but do agree there should have been immediate consequences..

... to their actions which is good.

These days taking away internet is much much much worse than any kind of whipping to teenagers...

They would've screamed bloody murder

[pintobean]

9. We used to ground our daughter from electricity

except for lights.

[uponit7771]

10. This is a good one, without electricity they might have to go outside and play and stuff !!

We were near feral but it was a military base so people had an unusual sense of safety when it comes to kids.

As long as we were home and bikes put up before dark the sky was the limit (well on the base except for the weapons areas) were we could go

[msongs]

5. so if she did this to the DA he would be ok with it? nt

[Humanist_Activist]

14. How long has she been using this as a discipline method?

Its apparent it doesn't work.

[XemaSab]

16. Schaquana????

It's obvious that generational abuse runs in the family!