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FBI investigating use of stun gun on 10-year-old

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 2:09 PM

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OZARK, Ark. (AP) — The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.

Ozark Mayor Vernon McDaniel and Police Chief Jim Noggle announced the FBI's investigation Friday and said they're pleased federal agents have stepped in.

Police officer Dustin Bradshaw has been suspended with pay for a week for not having a video camera attached to his Taser. Town officials want the FBI to consider whether his use of the weapon was appropriate.

The girl's mother has said she called police Nov. 11 after the girl refused to take a shower. Bradshaw says the girl became violent and "verbally combative" and her mother suggested using the stun gun.

The FBI did not comment.

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purecountry said on November 20, 2009 at 2:37 PM

If she was being violent and verbally combative I don't see the problem. Maybe that will teach her to do what her parents say. Personally I would have taken my belt to her if she back talked me or got combative. My parents wouldn't have tolerated that behavior and I wouldn't either. That is the problem in America today. Parents have let the law step in and arrest them for punishing kids and kids know they can get away with this behavior. NOT MINE. My child would be told once. Then spanked with a belt (nothing overboard like leaving cuts or whelps) then if that didn't work I would have physically held them down in the tub my self. Parents need to step up and be parents and take charge or just give their kids up to families that can.