Grandmother facing battery charges after slapping granddaugh

[MdmeX]

(This pickney want a good tum down)

Grandmother facing battery charges after slapping granddaughter for mouthing off


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Largo, Florida -- It seems the grandmother accused of domestic battery after slapping her mouthy teenage granddaughter won't face charges after all.

Theresa Collier's daughter, Diane Collier, tells 10 Connects, while they haven't seen the paperwork, an attorney working with shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge has pushed the case forward within the State Attorney's Office and the domestic battery charge lodged against the 73-year-old grandmother was dropped.

Theresa Collier says she's never been in trouble her entire life, but this week, the grandmother found herself behind bars in the Pinellas County Jail after slapping her granddaughter for swearing at her.

"My heart's going like this. I just thought I was going to die. I wanted to crawl in a hole," Collier told 10 Connects, as she broke down in tears.
Collier says she invited her 18-year-old granddaughter, Felicia Collier, to her house so she could use her computer to do homework.

Felicia is finishing her senior year online after getting kicked out of Catholic school in Massachusetts, Collier explained.

"She said F-off to a nun! I would just crawl into a hole," said Collier.
On Tuesday, the newly turned 18-year-old did not want to obey her commands to complete her assignments.

"She kept repeating the F-word to me, about the whole family. She just went on and on and I just got so upset, I got up and slapped her across the face," she told 10 Connects, "She grabbed my wrists and I couldn't get out of it and she let one go and she punched me in the cheek here."
Felicia then called police to her grandmother's home, but even the teenager couldn't have imagined what happened next.

"The two officers came to each side of me and before I know it, they have my arms and they said, 'You're under arrest,' and they cuff me," Collier said tearfully.

Despite Felicia Collier's attempts to convince police not to arrest her grandmother, the officers took the woman into custody.

Theresa Collier describes the next 24 hours in jail as the worst hours of her life.

"I went to medical, they take my blood pressure, it was sky high and he says, my God! And I said, 'Can you blame my blood pressure?' " said Collier.

"My wife of 52 years went to Catholic Parochial school, went to church, she's a good strong Catholic and raised four kids and no one ever spoke to her like that," said her husband, Walter Collier.

While Collier's arrest seems out of line, under the law, a battery was committed.

"Legally she's 18-years-old, so while I understand the difference between corporal punishment on a child, disciplining your child for using poor language, this is an 18-year-old child," said Lt. Mike Loux, with the Largo Police Department.

Lt. Loux says his department has a mandatory arrest policy when it comes to domestic violence calls, so someone had to go to jail.

"If an officer on scene finds probable cause to arrest a person, because they've committed domestic battery, then our policy is a mandatory arrest of that person," said Lt. Loux, "The discretion does not come because the victim does not want to prosecute. It doesn't come because the victim has remorse for calling police."

Felicia Collier was in court on Wednesday for her grandmother's first appearance and signed a form to not only not prosecute, but allow contact with her grandmother.

"I think it's ridiculous. We're hurt so bad, I'm so scared she's going to have a heart attack or a stroke over this. She doesn't sleep, she bursts into tears and I'm almost doing it now," said Walter Collier.

They haven't spoken to their granddaughter since the incident.
Further complicating things, the couple only lives in Largo part-time. They have plane tickets to head home to New Hampshire next week and are not unsure if it's a good idea they return since Collier has yet to have her next day in court set.

"What are they going to do? Send me back in?" said Collier, pointing toward the jail.

Which side are you on?

[MissLondon]

Which side are you on?

In this situation, the grandmother, but some parents do take the beatings too far and its difficult to know where to the draw the line. I know my mother purposely tried not to beat us because she thought she was beaten for every little thing when she was young (not saying my grandparents crossed the line).

I don't know, but part of me thinks the "children must be beaten" mantra that seems to be instilled in black people is a leagacy of slavery. I think other methods do work better in most cases.

[Gamma]

whey di line deh?

[Gamma]

the grand daughter was not only out of line she was disrespectful to her grandmother who was trying to help her!!!?? her grandmother?!!! as a big man i would not even want my grandmother to hear mi cussing out someone else! why is that? generation or situational? tell mi nuh?


true the beating for every little thing loses the effect but some flogging is necessary sometimes. like everything else, the punishment must be commensurate to the crime!

[MissLondon]

Well, I think flogging probably counts as child abuse lol but a smack every now and then when the child is young is ok. The way I see it, its about disciplining children when there young so they don't grow up and cuss infront of people. Because you can't discipline a 16 year old by slapping them, too late for that.

[MissLondon]

Oh wait, she's 18, so she's an adult.

The grandmother was right to box her down then! lol

[Jangle]

box har yes!!! It is such a shame how times have changed and how we have evolved. My mother, my auntie, and especially my grandmother (who had both legs amputated) used to buss my a ss while growing up. I turned out to be an almost perfect gentleman. Sorry MadamX, MissLondon, my wife got lucky and found Mr. Right.

[Mosiah]

what country is this?

[MissLondon]

box har yes!!! It is such a shame how times have changed and how we have evolved. My mother, my auntie, and especially my grandmother (who had both legs amputated) used to buss my a ss while growing up. I turned out to be an almost perfect gentleman. Sorry MadamX, MissLondon, my wife got lucky and found Mr. Right.

LOL!
You probably would have turned out an almost perfect gentleman without the beatings though.
Your father never use to beat you?

[Mosiah]

MissLondon, you don't want to hear about Jangle's encounters with beatings! And you certainly don't want to be anywhere close to him!

[Jangle]

No. I am a product of THE typical Jamaican family - no father but very strong women within the household.

[Sickko]

I just sent a ticket for my 16 year-old Nephew in Boston to come here in the summer, he thinks he is coming for vacation..fire deh a muss muss tail...

Boy been mouthing off and going away for days without calling home and then telling MY mother to shut up...I warned him a few times that he can talk to his mother anyways he want but not my mother.

[Jangle]

gwaan soak dat strop yes!!!! mek sure seh it wet when yuh walk it cross him back!!!!

[MissLondon]

No. I am a product of THE typical Jamaican family - no father but very strong women within the household.

I have much respect for the single mothers who do their best whilst raising and providing for children on their own, but maybe if a father was in the house to maintain dicsipline the beatings wouldn't be so necessary? Off topic I know.

[Mosiah]

funny! well, not really

snicker!