Don’t minimize beating with stick

Published 9:00 pm Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Please, for the sake of our children, do not minimize child abuse with a headline of “Man arrested in spanking of kids” to announce a story where the child reports being hit “a lot of times” with a stick.

The story came to light when a day care center reported severe bruising on the 5-year-old boy.

Being hit with a stick is not a spanking – it’s a beating.

Katie JohnsoN

Everett