This is one Mom I hope she doesn't do time.

[Prick]

The Florida mom arrested for choking a boy who bullied her daughter on Facebook admits she "lost it" when she put her hands around the boy's neck in the middle of a mall while her daughter watched."I said, 'Stop saying things about my daughter on Facebook,' and I did use some expletives, and I was told that he wasn't going to stop and he didn't have to stop," Debbie Piscitella said today on " ." "So I lost it. I really, really did.

"I lost my temper," she said." "I wish it would have been another route I had taken. I don't go around doing that to children. I don't want to sound like I'm a huge monster."
Piscitella, 46, and daughter McKenna, 13, were shopping at a St. Petersburg mall last Monday when the pair spotted the girl's alleged online tormentor, a teenage classmate.

Piscitella confronted the boy and put her hands around his neck, according to police. The boy, whose name was not released, had, according to Piscitella, taunted her daughter online after the girl posted a picture of herself taken by her younger brother after a concert.

"It's the nasty things that he was saying about her," said Piscitella, who admitted her emotions got the best of her. "What really, really did it was when she [McKenna] was so upset about it. She wanted to hurt herself. That, to me, as a parent, seeing my daughter like that really angered me."

Piscitella was arrested on a child abuse charge a few hours later, after the boy's mother saw red marks on her son's neck and decided to press charges. Piscitella was released on bail.

While not commenting on the child abuse charge pending against her, Piscitella said she and McKenna's father, Jim, had tried to contact authorities to end the bullying against their daughter before it went too far.

"I went to the school. I went to the SRO, the School Resource Office," she said. "They [McKenna's father] contacted the police even that night and they were like, 'Oh, there's nothing we can do about it.'

"They have all these anti-bully laws but, when it comes down to it, it falls on deaf ears."

Piscitella said there are lessons that other parents can learn from her experience.

"I want people to, obviously, try to go through the proper channels," she said. "I want you to monitor your children and what your children are doing on Facebook because, obviously, if you look on the Facebook of the children in question, the things that are on there, as a parent, I would shut it down immediately."

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[Tycoon]

Good for her.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

This social media bullying is getting out of hand.

 

[Art Mann]

Unfortunately, her hands got out of hand.

It would have been far better for her to meet the bully's parents and confront them with evidence of what he was doing online.

Then his own mother could have choked the shit out of him like he deserved.

 

[HOF]

With the numbers of suicides escalating due to bullying, there will be more parents taking matters into their own hands.

 

[WhiteLion]

With the numbers of suicides escalating due to bullying, there will be more parents taking matters into their own hands.

I hope not. Art's analogy makes perfect sense.

 

[-b]

Protecting ones child is every parents right....
But the other person was another child......and she is an adult.....she should
have put her hands around the neck of the boy's mother.......

It is time for parents of these youth to be responsible for their children and what they
do on line........So many excuses......

 

[tboy]

Now I agree, she went ovecommunity and should be charged but I would have done much much worse but only after a warning. If I spotted the kid I would have gone up to him and plainly stated: you are going to stop with the online comments now, or you will face some very dire consequences....if he mouthed off to be, I would have hit him open handed right across the face......after he picked himself off the ground I'd say "that was open handed, the next one will be a fist if you don't stop".....

Yeah, I'd be charged, and if he did it again? after I got out on bail I'd go over to his house and hit him so hard he wouldn't wake up until next tuesday.....

 

[Guido]

Now I agree, she went ovecommunity and should be charged but I would have done much much worse but only after a warning. If I spotted the kid I would have gone up to him and plainly stated: you are going to stop with the online comments now, or you will face some very dire consequences....if he mouthed off to be, I would have hit him open handed right across the face......after he picked himself off the ground I'd say "that was open handed, the next one will be a fist if you don't stop".....

Yeah, I'd be charged, and if he did it again? after I got out on bail I'd go over to his house and hit him so hard he wouldn't wake up until next tuesday.....

I have to admit I'd do exactly the same thing and only hope I'd be able to control myself and not close my fist on the first smack!

Art's way is the best way but some of us are more emotional than others and I don't think I'd be able to keep my cool if it were my kids involved.

 

[Boing]

Unfortunately, her hands got out of hand.

It would have been far better for her to meet the bully's parents and confront them with evidence of what he was doing online.

Then his own mother could have choked the shit out of him like he deserved.

Good points but what if the mother turns out to be a bully just like the kid?.

 

[McGuinty]

Let's hope she just gets a slap on the hand and move on.

 

[Ms.FemmeFatale]

There is a big difference between being arrested and trying to duck it because of what the other person did and getting arrested proudly for doing something that someone else should have done.

I would do my time if needed but I would not have regretted for one nanosecond what I did if it proved to stop the bullying against my child. Call_Me whatever you, I am still going to sleep well at night. In or out of prison. Thanks


Edit: to whom it may concern. Please think about changing some of the smilie codes. When I type Call_Me, I don't Call me showing up. It is usually why a : is put in front of all code words.

 

[HOF]

There is a big difference between being arrested and trying to duck it because of what the other person did and getting arrested proudly for doing something that someone else should have done.

I would do my time if needed but I would not have regretted for one nanosecond what I did if it proved to stop the bullying against my child. Call_Me whatever you, I am still going to sleep well at night. In or out of prison. Thanks


Edit: to whom it may concern. Please think about changing some of the smilie codes. When I type Call_Me, I don't Call me showing up. It is usually why a : is put in front of all code words.

Post 29:
Really, you wouldn't let the justice system resolve the problem?
https://www.hubgfe.com/community/showthread.php?43596-MY-DAY-SUCKED!&p=328101#post328101

Now because you take fantastic pictures and I like you, while you're in the Vanier Centre, the CO's will take special care of you:wink:

Seriously we don't know the extent of the bullying and the mother may have momentarily seen red which provoked the choking incident. Most parents of bullies sadly do not know their children are bullying others. Remember computers should be in the family room so they can be monitored. Unfortunately social media permits a great deal of bullying.

It's times like these that I'm glad that I've never had children.

 

[tboy]

while I agree in principal hof, I think while most parents might not know their child is being a bully, those who do would deny it to the end of time. Least that is the way it was when I was a kid....(yeah that's a long time ago but people haven't changed that much).

 

[jumpingjackflash]

while I agree in principal hof, I think while most parents might not know their child is being a bully, those who do would deny it to the end of time. Least that is the way it was when I was a kid....(yeah that's a long time ago but people haven't changed that much).

I don't know about that one T. In our day if we screwed up our parents would unleash the wooden spoons, belts etc.... Now a days is "my little Waldo would never do that". I think people have changed and not for the better. I also think some kids need a good choke hold slapped on them to bring them back down to earth.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

I don't know about that one T. In our day if we screwed up our parents would unleash the wooden spoons, belts etc.... Now a days is "my little Waldo would never do that". I think people have changed and not for the better. I also think some kids need a good choke hold slapped on them to bring them back down to earth.

Yep I remember the wooden spoons and belts quite well thank you.

 

[Ms.FemmeFatale]

Post 29:
Really, you wouldn't let the justice system resolve the problem?
https://www.hubgfe.com/community/showthread.php?43596-MY-DAY-SUCKED!&p=328101#post328101

Now because you take fantastic pictures and I like you, while you're in the Vanier Centre, the CO's will take special care of you:wink:

Seriously we don't know the extent of the bullying and the mother may have momentarily seen red which provoked the choking incident. Most parents of bullies sadly do not know their children are bullying others. Remember computers should be in the family room so they can be monitored. Unfortunately social media permits a great deal of bullying.

It's times like these that I'm glad that I've never had children.

Please read, because I know you have been waiting for a chance to use that against me but it ain't flyin' here bud. Sorry. It was actually a waste. You probably should have held out longer.

I am saying if I was the mother and I did do that, I would not be worried about doing my time. I would do it proudly.

Not that I would not let the justice system handle it first, or that I would not let the justice deal with me after.

You on the other hand decided to get much further involved based on your post in that previous thread. Also, please remember that I did ask to clarify your position of" tough guy" before I continued on with my assessment of you.

And thanks, but I will pass on your offer of special care. I don't play that way.