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Woman sentenced for beating six-year-old foster-son
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-03-13 17:05
Story here. Excerpt:
A Coeur d’Alene woman was sentenced to supervised probation today for beating her 6-year-old foster son so severely that he was hospitalized with a head injury.
Joyce D. Hibshman, 37, no longer has custody of the boy and two other foster children that were in her home, her lawyer said during today’s sentencing hearing at the Kootenai County Courthouse.
Hibshman was arrested in July 2006 after bringing the injured boy to Kootenai Medical Center. Emergency room staff contacted police.
Another foster child in the home told police that Hibshman had beat the boy “for eating mommy’s chocolate bars.”
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It's About Power and Control - A Woman's Best Friends
Why do many women prefer occupations where they are in a position of strength (i.e. elementary teaching, daycare, nursing the sick, etc.)? The answer is simple: many women enjoy having all the power and control in their relationships, both at work and at home.
We're told that women are less violent than men. That women are only violent in self-defense.
If a man hits a woman, he almost always faces prosecution and persecution, and almost certainly goes to jail.
Yet if a woman hits a man, she might face prosecution, and could possibly go to jail.
If a man hits a child, he will likely face prosecution, and may go to jail.
Yet if a woman hits a child, she was "disciplining" the child, and almost never goes to jail.
This certainly sounds like a "power and control" issue to me.