Mother beats child

[kateykakes]

I saw this news clip yesterday. It made me so sick and so angry. Anyone have any updates to this?

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/92002_beating.html

Search Intensifies for Videotaped Child Beater

The woman, identified as 25-year-old Madelyne Gorman, or Madelyne Toogood could be seen on the tape punching and shaking her daughter. Authorities believe the little girl, Martha Toogood, might have serious injuries.
Mishawaka, Indiana September 20, 2002

[shooter1201]

It takes a BIG(NOT) person to beat up a defenselss CHILD......

[Zamboni]

I've heard of this but I haven't seen the video. Anyone got a link to a video of it on the net?

[AutumnAngel]

I have a 4 year old daughter and she could never do anything to make me do something like that to her. I feel guilty just swatting her on the butt once when she disobeys. Grrrr!! I have zero tolerance for people who consistenly beat their children -- they are completely defenseless.

[kateykakes]

This is really hard to watch:

http://cf.ibsys.com/ind/sh/videoplayer/popup.cfm?contentid=1677515&owner=ind&site=ind

[Mitzi]

I saw it and it enraged me. I hope she goes to jail. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[AutumnAngel]

After seeing that I don't even know what to say... I didn't realize she looked around to see if people were watching. God. Stupid B*tch!

[kateykakes]

You saw what she did to her child in public, now imagine what she does behind closed doors. That poor child.

[MK219]

God help the officer who has to arrest that F@#$&
mother! It would take an act of God for me not to beat the living crap out of her all the way to the station! I hope the girl is alright. I agree with Autumn, I have two sweethearts myself, Nothing in the world wopuld cause me to do that.
It's events like this that I say skip the courts go directly to HE__!

[MK219]

Just heard onthe news that the mother is a career scum bag! Shoplifting charges in Texas! Sister is in trouble also for not reporting incident. The sister was with her.

[Mitzi]

They think she is a member of the Travelers, a big family, kind of like gypsys, I think. They travel. That's what they do...oh, they also lie, cheat and steal. They located the car but no one who was there knew anything about it, of course. Now they are all gone too. They have closed ranks. It will be hard to find her, I fear. They know how to pass off things until you aren't sure who you are talking to. But if they find her, I just pray the little girl is ok. She is so adorable.

[Sam]

Mitzi, I heard they were part of the travelers too. They are scam artist and they will hide her I am sure of that. They rip off welfare, scam home repairs, sell drugs, any way to make a buck. Average family pulls in 300K a year tax free they say. We have had them through here several times.
I am wondering what she was thinking? She looked around to see if anyone was watching so it was premeditated. But the girl didn't do anything that I saw to make her mad. Even if she did she was totally brutilizing the child. I think she was just taking out her frustrations for not being able to rip off the store. What a sicko.

[jarhead6073]

Don't ever let me catch that f cking b tch... That's f cked. She needs a good 5 minutes alone with some real mean people. Lets see how she likes it.

[Mitzi]

The travelers are bad news. It was a woman from the travelers that claimed she was raped at a Disney World Resort. But, she was figured out and arrested. She had sex with a mutual friend then she and her brother went to the resort and tried to stage it tot look like a rape.
I hope they find this woman but it won't be easy. They have closed ranks. They lie as easily as drinking a glass of water. They can make you think black is white.
But, if I know LEO's, I bet they will get her. It will take a lot of work and hanging on to the case with resolve but they will do it.

[AutumnAngel]

I saw this woman's attorney on TV tonight saying the child was not traumatized (yeah, right) or hurt in anyway.(yeah, right) He has also been saying that she is planning on turning herself in in the next day or so. I just hope that police stay on top of this and don't let this go to the bottom of the pile.