Mom Arrested for Whipping Her 3 Sons for Burglarizing Home

A Baton Rouge mother was arrested on Monday morning after she admitted to whipping her three sons for breaking into a home.

According to WBRZ, Schaquana Spears, 30, was booked on child cruelty charges after she was arrested by East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies.

Investigators told the news site that Spears struck her 13-year-old son “with an RCA cord multiple times,” leaving “cuts on both arms and marks across his body.” The 10 and 12 year old sons had injuries as well.

Spears was booked into the parish jail and her bond set at $2,500.

I still believe it is a parents right to discipline their child. It’s ok to be physical, but what I don’t believe is that you have to beat your children in order to make them behave, and certainly not with an RCA cord. I can also think of a lot worse things that could have happened to those boys if she did not catch them breaking into the home herself. District Attorney Hillar Moore had the same sentiment as he elaborated in the statement below.

"Parents have the right and obligation to discipline and teach their children. We often time see children who have no parental authority or discipline which eventually results in delinquency and criminal acts. We need more parents who discipline their children. Surely you would expect a parent to discipline a child who is burglarizing other people’s homes as this could be a deadly encounter for the child. The degree of physical discipline will be reviewed. The law does not allow excessive pain or cruelty but does allow physical parental discipline. I only have the short synopsis which does indicate that the discipline resulted in marks on the child’s body and possibly an open wound. I will review all of the reports; meet with the DCFS office and review any history of this mother and her children to get a better picture of the entire family dynamics before making a decision. In the meantime my office is working with the juvenile court to ensure the speedy release of the mother under conditions satisfactory to the court.”

[WBRZ]