Albuquerque, NM – Police say a Southwest Airlines flight attendant took a baby from her parents on a flight from Dallas to Albuquerque after the mother slapped the crying child.
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The flight attendant told Albuquerque International Sunport aviation police she removed the 13-month-old after she saw the mother slap the girl and passengers complained.
Airport spokesman Daniel Jiron says paramedics checked the baby when the flight landed.
Aviation police returned the child to her parents after speaking to the couple, the flight attendant and other witnesses. The parents were not cited.
Aviation police chief Marshall Katz says authorities felt it was an isolated incident.
He says the attendant’s decision to hold the child neutralized the situation.
now there ther is new police oficers evry body thinks thay are smart
good thing she didn’t use the emergency chute.
I don’t think he/she was suppose to hit a child, but the flight attendant has no reason to mix in…. Its not her business
Isolated? What idiots. Anyone who slaps a 13 month old baby needs serious help.
I cannot believe it is legal for a stupid flight attendant to take a kid away from its parents. The parents should sue the airline and the flight attendant personally.
Thank G-d she wasn’t Jewish or Hashem Yishmor from Williamsburg (I’m being sarcastic for those of you with an IQ below room temperature) or VIN’s servers would crash from the amounts of “concerned” comments (Lock’er up and throw away the key!!!) written by goodie-two-shoes who wouldn’t miss an opportunity to belittle their fellow Yidden.
Reply to #5
Kevin you are no mavin. Your are mamash an am ha’ortez if you believe that slapping a baby is somehow a parent’s perogative. Hopefully they will be arrested and charged with child abuse. And hopefully you have no children or grandchildren who you can abuse like this.
the parents are lucky that no one caught the slap on their their cell phone video. child protective services or the New Mexico version would have been waiting at the gate for them.
I am the lost one to slap any child, ever, but I also do not think a flight attendant has the power/right to make a decision who’s child to take away, I think they could of threatened the mother with many things to get her to behave/stop and then have the police meet the parents at landing, not take the baby away mid-flight.
For those who think it was wrong of the flight attendant to intervene, would you rather she waited till she slapped the child a second or third time? Yes she had the right and presence of mind to intervene and bring the parents to their senses. If a parent does not know how to calm a crying baby on an airplane and resorts to slapping the child, then the parent herself is out of control and needs to be reigned in, you can’t blame a child for being upset on a plane. It might be upsetting and annoying for adults to hear a baby crying on a plane, but you can’t fault the baby. If the parent cannot soothe a baby, slapping the child will not help the situation, what will the parent try next, shaking the baby or slapping the baby a few more times?
Flight attendants are trained to step in for emergency situations. This child was in what can be considered an emergency situation. The flight attendant should be commended for doing what was best for the child.
Reply to #12 :
“I am the lost one to slap any child..”
Yes Kevin, you clearly are “lost” and don’t have a clue regarding child abuse and what much be done to protect children. As another poster said, if you don’t see whats wrong with their behavior, hopelfully you don’t have your own children to abuse.
Good going !s/o ought to wake up that mother and show her ppl will take away her kids if she don’t control herself!maybe that flight sttendant helped saved that child from physical abuse!these goyim r nuts! Kudos to her!!
I wouldn’t be surprised if she has some yiddishe blood!lol!
Why would they return the child to the parents and not arrest them, to boot. I wonder.
What on earth is wrong with a parent giving THEIR child a potch? I do it, my parents did it and so did theirs!
How very intelligent of you to use a typo as the basis of your flawed argument, if you wish me that I do not have kids of my own, I wish you someone takes your kids from you when they feel your not dealing with them in the right way.
If you look at your own typo ” what much be done ” yes your “much” stupid and arrogant.
to nu. 17, it is only the age. no one normal patches a 13 month WHILE they are already crying. it is one thing to train and give a little patchele on the hentele when she tries touching a crystal or a knife but I am sure this wasn’t a little patchele for training.
to #17 & #19 A patch (as opposed to beating) is usually not physical abuse – depending on the age of the child. However, a 13-month-old child is in no way able to understand why it received the patch. It will only register pain and rejection, not instruction, and that is not how you bring up a child. The mother appears to have done it out of frustration, and that is abuse, or close to it. The stewardess should have warned the mother first though and thus defused the situation.
It is possible the child was crying because of the ear pain caused by changes of air pressure. Feeding would have eliminated that. I’m forever surprised why stewardesses do not advise mothers of young children about this.
The flight attended should be prosecuted for kidnapping, its non of her business, if she wanted then report to pd, it looks like the there is a lot of singles here which don’t understand what raising children means…
(To # 21) as if you never gave a patch for your kid… I should walk into your house in a stressful time… If was the steward I would sit down with the mother and help her with her baby, and btw a patch is not considers abuse..
anony Says:
Good going !s/o ought to wake up that mother and show her ppl will take away her kids if she don’t control herself!maybe that flight sttendant helped saved that child from physical abuse!these goyim r nuts! Kudos to her!!
I wouldn’t be surprised if she has some yiddishe blood!lol
how do you know this information maybe the parents where yiddin, from some comment here it seems that some agree with the parents, and maybe a nice goy that has not one once of yiddish blood had rachmunus on the baby.
Or do you think that is simple impossible
Perfect, the mom has free babysitting for her crying baby, and gets ger kid back at the end of the flight!
Sorry folks, a flight attendant taking a child away from parents = KIDNAPPING. If there were a concern, it needed to be handled by the authorities. I hope the parents sue the airline out of the skies.
I wasn’t there so I don’t know what kind of potch the child got. Maybe it was a gentle one? Maybe the child was being very annoying? It is very stressful flying with a child. There is no privacy and if your child is making a scene it can be embarrassing and very disturbing to all the other passengers. I am not sticking up for potching a baby, but, I am looking for a reason why parents would do this to a small child on a plane.
Reply to #27 ;
Aryeh. Thats what parents who molest and abuse thier children always say: “its their right as parents to do so”. I’d hate to know what you do to your children and hope your neighbors who observe any such behavior on your part have the same common sense and courage as this flight attendant.
#29 , parents who molest their children claim it’s their right to do so? Where did you ever hear such claim? You are a very sick man with very sick fantasies.
Clearly you see the world in very black and white colors, and do not understand how to differentiate between what is considered average or normal and what is extreme and dangerous.
As a child abuse survivor, I send thanks to the courageous airline stewardess who took action as well as my congratulations to the airline company that is lucky enough to have her in their employment. Even for those who believe that hitting someone smaller and weaker than us has anything to do with true discipline, a 13 month old baby is to young to relate the pain with the behavior.