Caught on Tape Beating Child

plmkrzy

For some reason my Real One player isn't showing the video so I don't know if it's my player or a problem w/the link.

Anyway I saw this on the news last night and again this morning.

There is no telling where this woman is but somebody from somewhere must know who she is and I would think turn her in.

This child could be hurt bad. She is only 4 years old and that woman was punching her. She needs to be in jail.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA020920Beating_Tape.html

duh...I just realized you have to be a subscriber to the network and log in to view the tape. Sorry. so all who are subscribers can play the video.

Surveillance tape catches woman beating small child.

Police say they are searching for a woman who was caught on tape while beating her little girl in a shopping mall parking lot. (ABCNEWS.com)

Caught on Tape Police Search for Woman They Say Was Videotaped Beating Child

M I S H A W A K A, Ind., Sept. 20 Authorities are frantically searching for a woman who they say was captured on a security videotape beating a 4-year-old girl in a shopping mall parking lot. Police say the beating appeared so severe that they fear the girl may be seriously hurt.

"Our primary function here is to find the child and get her to a hospital so that she can be examined," Assistant Mishawaka Police Chief Mike Samp told ABCNEWS' Good Morning Ameirca.

The woman, believed to be the girl's mother, could be seen on the tape punching and shaking the child for about 30 seconds, after she placed the girl in the back seat of a sports utility vehicle.

A doctor who saw the tape said the little girl could have suffered head, neck and brain injuries, Samp said.

The woman on the tape has been identified as 25-year-old Madelyne Gorman, or Madelyne Toogood, and police believe she is from an area near Fort Worth, Texas. The little girl's name is Martha Toogood.

Prosecutors say the woman's sister, who had been with her in the store, has already been arrested. She faces charges of failing to report child abuse, while the child's mother could face felony battery charges in the Sept. 13 beating. The police department decided to release the tape to TV stations on Thursday, and it has since shocked viewers around the nation.

"We think she's still in the area," Samp said. "That's why we've gone to the national media with this, because we want to do everything we can so she gets the idea that there's no place, she won't be able to go, where hopefully she won't be spotted and at that point we can then take control of the child."

The girl's father has been cooperative in the investigation, according to police. Samp said the father says he has no idea where the woman and the girl are located.

Police say the beating occured after the two women seen on the security tape tried to return merchandise at a Kohl's department store here, just east of South Bend near the Michigan border, but were refused.

Samp said it's store camera policy to follow customers who try to return merchandise into the parking lot. That is why, he said, the camera had been zoomed in on the girl's mother when the beating began.

Police said the sports utility vehicle shown in the video had Texas license plates and was eventually found at an area apartment complex, but was not registered to either of the women shown on the tape

Edited by - plmkrzy on 20 September 2002 11:8:35

LDH

Plm,

I saw that. She didn't look poor, if this is the same woman. She got in a Ford Explorer type vehicle. Are you talking about the white woman?

The way she beat that child, I'd like 60 seconds alone with that bitch. You *KNOW* if she was beating that child like that in public, how she beats her kid in private. Did you see her look around to see if anyone was looking?

Lisa

plmkrzy

I saw that. She didn't look poor, if this is the same woman. She got in a Ford Explorer type vehicle. Are you talking about the white woman?

Yeh I think we are on the same page.

I was trying to find a network that would allow the tape to be viewd without subscribing. No luck. What a racket.

You said "she didn't look poor" I was looking to see what you were refering to but did they say on the news perhaps that she was suppose to be 'poor'?

I don't know what make or model the vehicle was but it looked new.

What gets me is they had this information on her long before she knew they did so why were they not able to snag her? Geesh. They couldn't catch her by now after 5 days they put out a bullitin. Go figure. That "amber alert" could have and should have been used in this case.

Yep she needs to get the s**t knocked out of her for sure.

7 days! not 5.

sh** like this makes me want to just chuck everything else I'm working towards and become a bounty hunter. I'm not kidding.

Edited by - plmkrzy on 20 September 2002 11:52:5

LDH

Plm,

No. I said that in terms of what most people's image of the woman would be if they just heard the story and saw no visual.

Lisa

TresHappy

The woman on tape is suspected of being part of a gypsy like group known as the Travelers. They live in RV parks around the country running roofing scams on the elderly. I found a free link to watch at least part of the video. www.wfaa.com - This is the ABC affiliate in Dallas, Texas. This woman is from Lake Worth, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth.

plmkrzy

Lisa

oh gottcha. yep that is probably acurate. People well to do are over looked in the criminal behavior dept. Until something like this brings it up front.

People do have a way of attaching poverty and child abuse together as though they go hand in hand.

TresHappy

Thanks for the link I looked everywhere, so I thought

plm

Edited by - plmkrzy on 20 September 2002 11:56:29

freeman

Prosecutors say the woman's sister, who had been with her in the store, has already been arrested. She faces charges of failing to report child abuse, while the child's mother could face felony battery charges in the Sept. 13 beating.

I'm shaking my head wondering why Jehovah's Witness Elders are not put in jail for failing to report child abuse, like this woman's sister was.

Is not child rape an even worse form of child abuse then just beating the kid?

It is a fact that this has happened hundreds of times behind the walls of the Watchtower and yet not one single Elder has ever gone to jail for not reporting the abuse. That is disgusting!

Freeman

TR

She's a freak! That poor kid. She must be a JW elder in a woman suit.

TR

plmkrzy

I'm shaking my head wondering why Jehovah's Witness Elders are not put in jail for failing to report child abuse, like this woman's sister was.

freeman,

that was the first thing that came to my mind when I read that part.

The only thing I can figure is red tape and fine lines that allow them to be blanketed with the confidentiality thingy. But even at that it makes no sense because a Doctor is under the same blanket however if he treats a child that has been abused then he must report it. Here anyway. I don't know about the rest of the country.

a JW elder in a woman suit.

lol@TR

Edited by - plmkrzy on 20 September 2002 12:24:34

wednesday

When i was growing up it was not unusaul to see someone take a child out of the hall for a beating. My own father who was bipolar(untreated) and an alcoholic, once chased me around the neighborhood in the nude waving a belt. I know that is bizzare, but it is true. not one singal neighbor reported anything. I ran faster than him and hid out till the evening. Eventually i had to come home. I'm sort of blank about what hapened -for sure i know i got beat. But no one reported things in that time-the 50-and 60. it was very rare to report. Lots of kids got beatings-pare for the course.

My heart goes out to this child. She'll have years of therapy ahead of her. I hope someone catches her mom and beats the hell out of her. Sometimes cats are better mothers thatn humans.

Caught on Tape Beating Child

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