12-Year Old Girl Forced To Shave Head, Run Outside In Diaper
Stephanie Ann Broten and her husband, Darnell Alan Landrum, were arrested and charged in Anoka County, Minnesota, on Wednesday with one count of malicious punishment.
On Monday evening, police were called to the couple’s home in Fridley, where a crowd of 30-50 people was gathered watching a young girl run around in nothing but a diaper and tank top.
The girl, Broten’s daughter, and Darnell’s step-daughter, was reportedly forced by the couple to shave her head and run around the neighborhood in nothing but a diaper following bad grades at school.
Authorities were shocked to learn of the punishment, and of the fact that, even after being arrested and booked into jail, Broten and Landrum seemed unaffected, laughing and joking at the expense of the humiliated 12-year-old girl.
Officers believe that the girl had been running outside, between her home and a neighborhood basketball court, for about half and hour, before a neighbor called police.
Police and witnesses reported that the girl was hysterical, and appeared to have been crying for a long time. Fridley Police Lt. Mike Monsrud told reporters that:
“[Broten and Landrum] told her if she didn’t [earn good grades], they would shave her head and put her on ‘diaper duty,’ which I guess meant running up and down the street and cleaning up trash as a form of public humiliation. Through the whole contact, and even on the way to jail, both were laughing and thinking it was ridiculous police would get involved in what they said was their parental decision.”
The girl’s step father told police that the girl had been warned several times by himself and her mother that if she did not start listening and paying attention in school, she would be forced to undergo the horrifying punishment.
Broten has been released from jail pending a court hearing, while Landrum remains behind bars. Both have standing no contacting orders with the 12-year-old girl. If convicted of the crime, they each face up to one year in prison and a $3,000 fine.
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Posted: May 9, 2012
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May 29, 2012
A right to punish a child is a parental right but a parent should never cross the line on any punishment regardless on what they did and that was way over the line
Jun 25, 2012
that was stupid, were they High! I hope they both go to jail.
Jun 28, 2012
So @Kimberly Brown, if they beat their child to death or place their hand on a hot stove, that's "okay" because even though it "went over the line" it's their parental right? Bullshit. Parents do not have carte Blanche to do whatever they want to their children. In this case, it was assault. Luckily, the law stepped in to protect their daughter.
Jun 28, 2012
Sorry, I misread your comment. Bad eyesight and not wearing my glasses. Excuse my comment.
Jun 28, 2012
I misread Kimberly's comment… Now I can't delete my comment.
Jul 31, 2012
Consider the source. In bread mother lets despicable swine run her life and her daughters instead of doing what is best for her daughter.Like I said before, if you can't take care of them, DON'T HAVE THEM! They should be made to do the same thing plus they should get more jail time and the girl should be taken away from them. They can't be trusted. If they would do some thing like this over grades, what on earth would they do over some thing worse. What ever happened to getting the girl help with a tutor, or work with her yourself, or go speak to the teacher about more help. They have programs in school for kids with learning disabilities that doesn't mean you shame and embarrass a kid for it. She will need a head doctor to get over this. Such a shame that kids can't be protected more from abusive swine like them. I hope the little girls life gets better.