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Police hunt for 'dad' pictured dragging a little girl around a Texas Walmart by her hair

  • Disturbing photos of a man dragging a child by her hair have emerged 
  • Erika Burch, snapped the photos while shopping in a Texas Walmart 
  • Burch said the child was pleading for the man to stop
  • She said the girl's hair was 'wrapped around the buggy' as he pushed it
  • Burch flagged down police who have said they are investigating incident  

By VALERIE EDWARDS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 19:21 EST, 20 September 2016 | UPDATED: 23:48 EST, 20 September 2016

 

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Disturbing photos have emerged of a man who appears to be dragging a little girl by her hair in Walmart. 

Erika Burch, was shopping when she spotted the man, who she says, had the child's hair 'wrapped around the buggy' as he dragged her down the aisles.

Burch said the child was pleading for the man to stop. 

Disturbing photos have emerged of a man who appears to be dragging a little girl by her hair in a Texas Walmart
 
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The man was spotted by several shoppers in the store
 
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Disturbing photos have emerged of a man (left and right) who appears to be dragging a little girl by her hair in a Texas Walmart

Erika Burch, was shopping when she spotted the man, who she says, had the child's hair 'wrapped around the buggy' as he dragged her down the aisles. Burch said the child was pleading for the man to stop
 
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Erika Burch, was shopping when she spotted the man, who she says, had the child's hair 'wrapped around the buggy' as he dragged her down the aisles. Burch said the child was pleading for the man to stop

'I promise I won't do it again! Please stop!' Burch said the little girl cried. 

Burch then took out her phone and snapped photos of the man and told him to let the child go.  

She said he told her 'to mind my own business', which prompted her to say: 'No I'm not! Right now this little girl is  my business and you need to let her hair go now!'

The incident occurred at a Walmart in Cleveland, Texas.

Burch said she flagged down an officer and he called his sergeant with the Cleveland Police Department.

The department later posted on Facebook that they had been receiving numerous calls in regards to the incident. 

Burch then took out her phone and snapped photos of the man and told him to let the child go, but he told her to mind her business. She said she then flagged down an officer and the police department along with Child Protective Services are conducting a joint investigation
 
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Burch then took out her phone and snapped photos of the man and told him to let the child go, but he told her to mind her business. She said she then flagged down an officer and the police department along with Child Protective Services are conducting a joint investigation

'We want to ensure the community this case is currently being investigated by our Detective Division. 

The department said that Child Protective Service (CPS) 'has been contacted per our policy and is also investigating this case'. 

Burch wrote in the post that the sergeant told her that the man 'has the right to discipline his children'.

She also added in the post that the sergeant told her for it to be 'abuse there had to be bodily injury to the child'.

Authorities said police and CPS will conduct a joint investigation



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3799274/Woman-snaps-photos-man-little-girl-s-hair-wrapped-buggy-dragged-aisles-Texas-Walmart.html#ixzz4Kt90MC9X 
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She should have called 911 and screamed for help. And, someone should have come over and beat the living crap out of that fat S.O.B.

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I agree this is awful. Father handled the situation wrong. He should not have grabbed her hair and held on so she couldn't run away. Actually, he should have left the store if the child was so unruly.

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I am not condoning this, however this has "I have had JUST about enough of your CHIT!" written all over it. Perhaps this little girl liked to throw temper tantrums or was a runner.

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Oh Hell NO! This is blatant child abuse through and through.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Oh Hell NO! This is blatant child abuse through and through.

 I don't really agree with that.  



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It seems a little barbaric to me but she probably wasn't physically hurt

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Yeah, not something I'd do - but if she stays close as she's meant to - it wouldn't hurt her.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Oh Hell NO! This is blatant child abuse through and through.

 I don't really agree with that.  

 Wrapping a 4 yr old's hair around a cart and dragging her thru the store?  You don't find that abusive?  Wow.



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If you want to be a parent, you be a parent. If she isn't behaving, you put the cart away and go home. Been there done that. You go sit in the car for a timeout. You make her face the corner. Luckily there is a corner literally everywhere. or, go buy one of those kid harnesses. This is abuse.

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Oh Hell NO! This is blatant child abuse through and through.

 I don't really agree with that.  

 Wrapping a 4 yr old's hair around a cart and dragging her thru the store?  You don't find that abusive?  Wow.

 If she's walking next to him as she's supposed to, he wouldn't be dragging her.  And her hair in not "wrapped around the cart".  It's not even long enough.  This wouldn't even pull her hair if she just walked next to the cart.  Next you'll tell me dragging a kid by their arm is child abuse, too.



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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

If you want to be a parent, you be a parent. If she isn't behaving, you put the cart away and go home. Been there done that. You go sit in the car for a timeout. You make her face the corner. Luckily there is a corner literally everywhere. or, go buy one of those kid harnesses. This is abuse.

 No, it's not.  It is not physically harming her.  



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Yanking someone around by the hair isn't physically painful? And if it's no big deal why are the Police looking for him?

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So you would do that to your child? No way.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

Yanking someone around by the hair isn't physically painful? And if it's no big deal why are the Police looking for him?

 Actually, the police said - 

 

Burch wrote in the post that the sergeant told her that the man 'has the right to discipline his children'.

She also added in the post that the sergeant told her for it to be 'abuse there had to be bodily injury to the child'.



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So you would do that to your child? No way.

 I already said that personally I would not.  But I get the frustration the dad must have been under to do this walking through Walmart.  And if you take your kid out of the store every time they don't listen, two things are going to happen - 

1.  They are never going to learn to behave in the store; and

2.  You are never going to get any shopping done.

 

And I get real sick of people throwing the word "abuse" around.  That is discipline you don't agree with, it is not abuse. 



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And her hair would not be yanked or pulled if she walked quietly next to her father as he is obviously trying to make her do, since leading up to that, the kid was probably failing to listen and failing to stay where she was supposed to. She is 4, not 2.

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Actually, a large enough piece of hair wouldn't hurt if pulled.

Ever had a ponytail pulled? It doesn't really hurt.

And for the record, I wouldn't have done this either.

I would have popped her butt and put her hand on the cart and if she took it off she would get another pop on the butt.

Another thing learned from leaving the store every time they act up, is that if they act up, they get to leave.

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Wow, talk about overreaction by a bunch of busy bodies. The girl is fine, she's having a fit and dad is handling it.
This same bunch of busy bodies would scream abuse if he swatted her bottom.
Much ado about nothing.

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I agree with those saying this is much ado about nothing. She wasn't hung by her hair or anything like that. If she stayed where he wanted her, her hair would not be pulled. Maybe she should have been behaving before her father had to resort to this.

People not wanting kids to face punishment for their misdeeds is exactly why we have the kids and young 'adults' that we have now: People that don't understand the concept of responsibility or consequences of their actions.

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This is inappropriate at best. I would think that this would be emotionally damaging to the child. It serves only to ensure that she is terrified of her father. Maybe some people don't mind having their children be scared of them, and it seems that this doesn't meet the legal definition of abuse. But I don't think this will help the little girl grow into a happy healthy person. There are other ways to teach your children to behave.

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Tangerine wrote:

This is inappropriate at best. I would think that this would be emotionally damaging to the child. It serves only to ensure that she is terrified of her father. Maybe some people don't mind having their children be scared of them, and it seems that this doesn't meet the legal definition of abuse. But I don't think this will help the little girl grow into a happy healthy person. There are other ways to teach your children to behave.

 I agree. It may not be legally abusive, but God help the person who might try to do this to one of my kids. 



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Letting little special snowflakes get away with whatever the heck they want in their formative years is much more damaging than something like this could ever be.

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Our local paper posted this article on FB. Most of the responses were that it wasn't that bad. If the girl walked next to the cart her hair wouldn't be pulled.

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Southern_Belle wrote:

Our local paper posted this article on FB. Most of the responses were that it wasn't that bad. If the girl walked next to the cart her hair wouldn't be pulled.

 I disagree--Look at how she is bent. With her hair wound around the cart, she has to crouch to shuffle along.

Not abuse, but inappropriate IMHO.



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