Monday, March 10, 2008

Woman punishes her kid with a pressure washer

Wouldn't you love 5 minutes alone with this mom? This is just soooo wrong...

--On February 24th, 22-year-old Nicki Ramirez was at a self-serve car wash in Orlando, Florida. (--The kind where you drive in and then wash it yourself with their hoses and soap.)

--When her two-year-old daughter began throwing a temper tantrum, Nicki's friend, who was with her, pulled the little girl out of the car. Then, Nicki sprayed her own daughter with a high-powered pressure washer in the head, face and chest.

(--To give you some perspective on how brutal that is, the force of a typical pressure washer is about 60 times more powerful than a garden hose.)

--Surveillance cameras caught the whole thing on tape . . . and the video started making the rounds on the news and on the Interweb.

--Last Thursday . . . after Nicki saw the tape on the news . . . she turned herself in to police. But according to Nicki, the whole thing's been blown WAY out of proportion.


--She says she was just using the water hose to, quote, "calm down" her daughter.

--She also points out that a nurse examined the little girl and couldn't find any evidence of injuries. Of course, since it had been 11 days since the girl had been sprayed, the nurse says any redness, welts, or bruising could have already gone away.

--And what's worse? This woman . . . this VILE creature who sprays her kid in the face with a high pressure water hose to calm her down . . . is five months pregnant.

--On Saturday, Nicki was released from jail on $1,000 bail. She's facing felony child abuse charges.

(Associated Press / Orlando Sentinel)



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow... just wow.

The kid is obviously terrified. I wouldn't judge this woman so harshly if she hadn't sprayed the kid in the face. When my kids were 2, they all freaked out when water got in their face... and that was just water in the tub that ran down their faces while rinsing their hair. I can't imagine how upset they would have been to have been sprayed in the face like that.

very sad...

Anonymous said...

There is no excuse period. Whether she was sprayed in the face or not. It is clearly abuse. The child is seen trying to run away from her at one point. I see and hear of abuse daily at my job and it still just makes me livid. The saddest thing is the aftermath. The damage that can never be reversed. We as a society need to develop zero tolerance to any type of behavior where someone with power over another being is abusive or neglectful of that power in any way.

Anonymous said...

Obviously a legal issue...the video has been removed.