Mother charged with child cruelty

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Friday, December 25. 2009

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A Danielsville woman was arrested recently after she allegedly bit and punched her juvenile daughter during an altercation.

Tara Elizabeth Sosebee, 32, 257 Bonds Lake Road, was charged with one count of cruelty to children in the first degree.

According to the incident report, Sosebee and her daughter were traveling on Black’s Creek Church Road when the girl began cursing at her mother and Sosebee took her phone away as punishment. The girl then reportedly struck her mother in the back of the head, at which point the mother stopped the car and jumped over into the back seat with her daughter, hitting her and biting her on the leg, which left a puncture wound. The daughter said her mother called her a “wh#$%” at the beginning of the altercation, when she told her mother she wanted to go home and fix her hair.

Sosebee called 911 after she and her daughter arrived back home and began arguing again.

In another arrest, a Tennessee woman was arrested after deputies were summoned to a domestic dispute on Allen Road.

Dorothy Elaine Nunns, 46, of 1845 Shaffer Street, Dyersburg, Tenn., was charged with one count each of simple battery on a peace officer and criminal trespass.

According to the incident report, Deputy Jeff Strickland responded to a call and met with Nunns live-in boyfriend who said he and Nunns were visiting her daughter when he found her (Nunns) with another man. He then threw her clothing out of his car onto the ground and when she saw what he had done, she reportedly came outside, grabbed a concrete block and threw it at his windshield where it broke the windshield. When the boyfriend called 911, Nunns allegedly began to run across a pasture at the rear of the residence. Deputy Strickland located her behind a barn and told her she was under arrest. She then reportedly became very irate and began jumping up and down and kicked Deputy Strickland in the groin area. He then placed handcuffs on her and took her without further incident to the jail for processing.

Others arrested by law enforcement officers in the county recently included:

•Russell Keith Cochran, 52, 1976 Dunkin Road, Commerce, removing or affixing a plate to conceal vehicle identification and driving while license revoked.

•Shonda Kaye Hill, 39, 433 Timber Ridge Lane, Colbert, two counts of probation violation (original charges: theft by receiving stolen property and possession of methamphetamine).

•Jessica June Sims, 32, 479 Paoli Road, Carlton, interference with government property.

•Joshua Wells Holbrook, 24, 1010 Stinchcomb Road, Elberton, failure to appear.

•Megan Christina McElhannon, 25, 1192 Shoal Creek Road, Colbert, driving while license withdrawn and failure to stop for stop sign.

•Dayrl Wayne Molliere, 53, 650 Bells Ferry Road, Comer, simple battery FVA.

•Ricky Alan Whitehill, 47, 7960 Hwy. 72 West, Colbert, DUI and open container in vehicle.

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#1 Resident Redneck on 12/25/09 at 09:00 PM [Reply]

Ok first pff what is a @##$%? And the daughter hit the mother first in the back of the head so why wasn't the daughter arrested too? The daughter was fussing saying how she wanted to go home and fix her hair? She would have to fix it when I got done with it. I would mess it up real good.

#1.1 Anonymous on 01/10/10 at 10:45 AM [Reply]

If you read the report, she did not go to jail for spanking the child, she went to jail because she bit the child, and left a laceration on the child's leg. GA Law states a parent has a right to corporal punishment, but so far as to bite a child. I got plenty of spankings when I was growing up, and deserved everyone, but my parents never bit me. Also the daughter was charged as a juvenile.

#1.1.1 Resident Redneck on 01/11/10 at 10:13 AM [Reply]

Yeah the daughter was told that wasn't nice and not to do it again. Yeah I got plenty of spankings growing up with what ever was handy belts, shoes, switches, what ever was close by. I know you say biting isn't fair and I am an adult if I were to get in a fight with you and biting you was the only way to get you off me Get ready because I would take a chunk out of you?

#2 whatever on 12/26/09 at 06:31 AM [Reply]

They should charge Sosbee's daughter also. She started it by struck her mother's head. I tell you what way to go mom. I know where you coming from my son is 15 barely 16 and he hit his dad and dad just walk away but not me I'm gonna do whatever it takes. He hit me once and I hit him back once he hit me and he never hit me back. He still hits on his dad and sometimes his brother. And I know he's gonna hit his baby brother I'll jump up and say you do it then I'll call 911 and lock your ### up. Dad is to scare to stand up to his own son. He grounded alot of stuff now no computer, I cancel all his myspace and Facebvook and text messages. I know that's to much and I gave him warning the more you been mean is the more I'll take away. What can you do to a child now these days? You can ground them but its not doing good but if I was to do what my mama and step dad did oh boy DEFACS will take your kid away. I'm so proud of my parents and see why they used a BELT on my ***. Thanks MOM and Stepdad

#2.1 MC Mom on 12/27/09 at 04:13 AM [Reply]

I raised four boys and they never once raised a hand to me no matter what and they would never curse at me. I think there is more to the story

#2.1.1 Anonymous on 12/28/09 at 11:55 AM [Reply]

There is a LOT more to the story. I think its so sad that people judge others based on what they read in the paper. First of all, everything that was written is wrong. That is not the way it happened.Secondly, my daughter has been in counseling for about 8 months because of her anger. I have tried for over a year to stop the violence, but there comes a time when enough is enough. Dont judge what you dont understand...

#3 hmm? on 12/26/09 at 12:42 PM [Reply]

spare the rod, spoil the child. you're children are a portrait of yourself so paint them well.

#3.1 Resident Redneck on 12/27/09 at 07:48 PM [Reply]

No keep the rod cause ever once in a while you may need it to whip their butts.

#3.2 Anonymous on 01/19/10 at 03:57 PM [Reply]

I'd like to add " THE APPLE DOES NOT FALL FAR FROM THE TREE"

Look at the mothers record.

#3.2.1 Resident Redneck on 01/20/10 at 11:11 AM [Reply]

Yes and they say children learn more by example? If you want your kids to grow up to be up standing citizens, you need to show them how an up standing citizen acts. Sounds to me like this was a household that followed the "Don't do as I do but do as I say do" attitude.

#4 Sardonic Veracity on 12/27/09 at 11:05 AM [Reply]

Moral of the story: If you're going to beat your children for hitting you in the head, then don't call the police afterwards.

#4.1 Resident Redneck on 12/28/09 at 09:07 AM [Reply]

No I never have but my kids know the limits. I don't care if it's one of my kids or another adult you hit me in the head and I'm going to tear into you. They need to be taught when they are young you don't pop nobody in the head unless you are ready for a fight. f I was this mother when thelaw showed up to arrest me I would have told them they had better take her somewhere because when I got out she would really get her butt tore up and she would be homeless. That's a rule in my house you slap me and your moving out so you had better have you a place to go and a job before you do it. Ain't nobody living in my house that respects me so little that they would slap me? I don't slap them and they sure had better not slap me.

#5 BLAH BLAH BLAH on 12/28/09 at 01:23 PM [Reply]

I KNOW THIS FAMILY AND THERE ON GOING PROBLEMS AND I KNOW THIS MOTHER HAS TAKEN EVERY STEP TO GET HER CHILD HELP , BUT GOD FOR BID YOU TRY TO DEFEND YOUR SELF AND CALL THE COPS TO "HELP" AND THEY TAKE THE MOM TO JAIL AND NOT THE DAUGHTER . SO WHAT IT IS SAYING TO THIS GIRL THAT ANY TIME SHE FEELS LIKE IT SHE CAN JUMP ON HER MAMA AND CALL THE POLICE AND HAVE HER MAMA LOCKED UP ..ALSO THE 2ND DEPUTY THAT SHOWED UP DIDNT HAVE A CLUE OF THE CHILDS PAST AND BEING A JERK WITH A BADGE FELT HE COULD MAKE HIS OPINION A FACT...PLEASE DONT ASSUME YOU KNOW WHOLE STORY BECAUSE I PROMISE YOU DONT. THIS LADY IS A PERSONM WHO HAS TURNED HER LIFE AROUND DESPITE OTHERS ACTIONS AND SHE IS A GREAT MOTHER ....

#5.1 Resident Redneck on 12/28/09 at 02:42 PM [Reply]

I agree with you but no matter what happens if a child is involved the law always sides with the child. They preach all this crap about trying to stop child abuse but you never hear about them trying to stop PARENT ABUSE and kids know today that if they get mad at a parent they can call 911 and report child abuse and the parent goes to jail. If you stop the car and put them out to keep from hitting them then you are charged with neglect and leaving the child on the side of the road.
Today parents are in a no win situation? There is a child abuse hotline to report child abuse BUT I haven't heard about a PARENT ABUSE HOTLINE. I always told my kids thwy may call and report it but to also tell the police they need somewhere else to live because I would have all their stuff packed by the time the law got there.

#5.2 Sardonic Veracity on 01/02/10 at 02:05 PM [Reply]

Who, in their right mind, thinks that the police are going to "help" with parenting?

#5.2.1 Resident Redneck on 01/03/10 at 01:25 PM [Reply]

Well Sardonic Veracity I think the police over step their bounds sometimes and alot of people will have to agree with me on that even you. As a parent you CAN'T correct your own child in public nomore if you do and the wrong person sees you they call it Child abuse and you go to jail.
I remember many many times in Quality Foods and Sky City in Commerce my Mom tearing my butt up for acting up. Now if a cop sees you correcting a child they arrest you.

#5.2.1.1 whatever on 01/04/10 at 01:29 PM [Reply]

you darn right. my mama always tear our butts if we start acting up and now you can't do that anymore because crazy people takes it the wrong way.

#5.2.1.1.1 Resident Redneck on 01/04/10 at 09:21 PM [Reply]

whatever you got that right Now they say it hurts a child in the long run BUT I remember getting my fair share of butt whippings and probably a couple of other peoples too. I have no ill feelings towards my parents for it they made me a better person.
Now they say you should put them in time out? That don't work. If I had been driving that car and she had hit me in the head I don't care if it was my daughter, yours, or President Obama's kid she would have had time to think about what she had done on the walk home. I would have put her butt out right there.

#5.2.1.2 Sardonic Veracity on 01/06/10 at 04:40 PM [Reply]

I think that's a cop out that people who have badly behaved children use. If you correct them at home in the proper ways, then when you're in public it doesn't take much for you to get your point across to them.

Teach them right from wrong when they're young and teach them there are consequences and you won't regret it when they get old enough to show their raising in public. They are a reflection on you and I, for one, am not into being embarrassed by my kids. I would be more embarrassed by them acting out than I would about busting that butt in the store ... but that extreme of correction is rarely necessary.

I have a four sons. The youngest one is five and the oldest is about to turn twenty. Time out works, spanking works, negative reinforcements work. It all works, you just have to do it.

#5.2.1.2.1 Resident Redneck on 01/07/10 at 09:21 AM [Reply]

Well I have 4 kids too and from what I have seen and tried time outs don't work near as good as busting that butt. I have seen parents in public tell their kids "You wait until I get you home" then the parents forget. In my generation our Moms would tear us up no matter if we was in a store, church, or where ever you were and we turned out just fine. Look at the reports there are more 18-21 year olds going to prison today than there was when we were that age, and I think it's part because we have started letting kids run our houses and do what they wanted. If I had talked to my parents the way I see some kids talk to their parents I wouldn't be here because they would have beat me to death.

#5.2.1.2.2 cant believe it on 01/17/10 at 05:24 PM [Reply]

SV, i usually disagree with you and even get angry with you alot, but i have to say, you hit the nail on the head! I also have four children and i agree with everything you wrote. We started when they were born, my oldest will be 20 this year and the youngest 12, they are all good kids and i have not really had any problems with any of them so far. Good Parenting including some spankings works. I got spankings when i was growing up, i even got one when i was 20. I thought i was grown, but still lived at home. enjoyed reading your opinion this time.

#6 Ben Had on 01/15/10 at 10:02 AM [Reply]

Spanking kids is not the answer to correcting problematic behavior. If you teach them that beatings are the consequence for undesirable actions,then beatings will be their method for coping when things don't go their way.
But, you can't start being a parent when the kid is a teenager either.It begins at birth,and some aren't ready to be parents just because they have a baby.

It reminds me of that show the "Dog Whisperer". The terrorizing little dog that controls the household with fear and anger turns out to be a normal little dog in the end.
The owners inability to set standards and establish themselves as the boss from the beginning is always the problem.

#6.1 Resident Redneck on 01/16/10 at 05:43 PM [Reply]

Ben Had- I somewhat agree with you BUT Time Outs DON'T WORK they never have and never will. They say it gives the child time to think about what they have done? Yes maybe but they also have time to think of how to do it next time without getting caught. But I do agree that you can't start being a parent when they get to be teenagers? It does start at birth.
Grounding and taking things away can work depending on what they have done.

#6.2 Sardonic Veracity on 01/30/10 at 01:41 PM

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#7 Former MC Resident on 01/30/10 at 05:58 AM [Reply]

First off, I have a niece that is in an alternative school, because she can't handle the rules of a "normal" school. Everytime she got in trouble at school, she just brushed it off. The punishment she got at home??? NONE!! She still acts up. She back talks her daddy, mama, teachers...the punishment she gets at home?? NONE!! She still back talks them. She smart mouthed her uncle (my husband)one time...got her tail torn up...is so well behaved at my house, to EVERYONE while here. The kids learn who lets them get away with things and who doesn't....bottom line!

#7.1 Resident Redneck on 01/30/10 at 10:09 AM [Reply]

I agree kids learn what they can get away with and what they can't and with whom at an early age. I not only got my but whipped by my parents but by other adults. I learned to mind no matter where I was. My parents told every adult that I went anywhere with to treat me life I was their kid if I did something wrong tear my butt up.

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