Another alleged criminal tripped up by social media. From the Palm Beach Post-
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Mom, friend charged with dressing son up as girl
A mother and her friend have been charged with child cruelty after authorities say they put the woman's 10-year-old son in a dress and makeup as punishment for wetting his pants.
Police say 34-year-old Christle Prado and 26-year-old Keith Driscoll were arrested last week in Winter Garden, an Orlando suburb.
Prado reportedly told an investigator that she was frustrated that her son had been wetting himself and went to Driscoll for advice.
Driscoll had the idea for dressing her son up as a girl.
Prado says the boy was dressed as a girl for only two minutes. Police learned about the incident after a relative saw Facebook photos of the boy wearing the dress and crying.
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Sounds like it was more than two minutes.
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Idiots
Who the hell takes photographs of a crying child and posts them on Facebook? If they had one more brain cell between the pair of them it would be lonely.
The abuse started....
by punishing the child for wetting his pants. Humiliating a child in any way is abusive! If the child had been dressed and was fine with it, the sad perception also being tht the boy being dressed would have been wrong to them; no matter what reason.
Love, Andrea Lena
This story saddens me for the
This story saddens me for the child who has a mother that cruel and that ignorant. Kids wet the bed for various reasons but the most common is due to a slow developing neurology and is a hereditary condition passed from father to son. It isn't their fault. It isn't something they can control. It can cause self esteem issues if not handled correctly.
I know this because my father wet the bed. My brother and I both wet the bed into our preteen years . My nephew currently wets the bed (he's 9). To this day my father has never admitted it (my grandmother told me when I was in my 20s). My brother was too embarrassed to tell my nephew about the 'family secret' so I did it for him.
I will never forget that day. He was 7 and his older sister had been dry for a few years. He laughed when I told him I wet the bed when I was his age and I laughed with him. It is funny when you think about it, especially to a kid's mind. Then he got a serious look on his face and asked,
'Do you still wet the bed?'
I told him of the shame I felt when I was his age and I told him that it wasn't his fault. I told him his dad and grandpa also wet the bed. I told him of my fears that it would never stop. I told him that one day when I was a lot older than him I realized I hadn't had a wet night in a week that became a month then turned into years. Kids like this need hope not humiliation and a parent should know better.
It really upsets me that any parent would do this to their kid. In many ways it reminds me of the TG community because it is part of who they are and it isn't bad thing. Only people's ignorance makes it so.