I think you guys are missing my point. I'm not trying to defend the mother. What she did was clearly wrong. However, the amount of media coverage this story was recieving, lead me to believe that she brutally beat her child to within an inch of her life. It really angered me that a parent would do such a thing. THen when I saw the video, I was like, "Is that it?". It wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be. Sure, the mother crossed the line, and deserves to be punished. But the story is hardly news worthy (especially on the national scale). Kids get hurt MUCH more then that every day, and we don't hear a thing about it.