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43-year old Tammy Smith of Moundsville, West Virginia is facing five counts of child abuse and malicious assault felony charges for allegedly burning the word “wimp” into her 6-year old daughter’s neck because the girl tripped and fell.

Before we all start getting down on Tammy, let’s ask ourselves what kinds of horrors poor Tammy had to endure when she herself was growing up. She must have been a severely abused child because no one becomes quite so depraved that they can sit there (or stand there) and burn an actual readable word into the neck of their six year old child without having gone through severe abuse themselves. So let’s not be too hard on Tammy. Wicked evil mothers from the most sadistic regions of hell deserve understanding too.

Seriously though,  it had to take some doing to get the letters shaped out I’d think. I’ve never really burned words into people’s necks before but I’m thinking it takes some work to get the letters shaped out into a word that other people can actually read. Luckily for her daughter it was only a four letter word. The child probably has her tiny little six year old neck to thank for that. No room for a longer word or a whole passage.

By the way I read that a police officer, expressing shock over the incident, remarked that the ‘i’ was even dotted.” I admit that made me laugh; but you know what, there’s nothing funny about this. I don’t give a crap what Tammy Smith went through in her own life. I’ve been through a lot of crap myself but I never thought it gave me the right to abuse my kid. If I knew it was wrong when it  was being done to me then I know it’s wrong period, and I don’t do it to my own child.

Image: Worried little girl by txd

Note: The image used in this post has nothing to do with the people mentioned in the post. The little girl in the photo is not the little girl mentioned in the post. This is a random image from Flickr that is used for illustrative purposes.