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White Georgia Man Arrested For Slapping Black Toddler

Last Updated Sep 2009

By Danyel Jones

AFRO Staff Writer

(September 6, 2009) - A White Georgia man was arrested this week after police said he repeatedly slapped a stranger’s Black toddler to stop it from crying.

After growing tired of listening to the upset 2-year-old cry while shopping at a Wal-Mart, Roger Stevens, 61, told the child’s mother, “if you don't shut that baby up, I will shut her up for you.”

When the child continued to cry, Stevens took matters into his own hands, slapping the child several times across the face, according to a police report. The man then told Mathews, “See, I told you I would shut her up,” according to the report.

Stevens was arrested and charged with a felony count of cruelty to children. The child sustained redness to her face, but was not otherwise hurt. No civil charges have yet been filed against Stevens.

Speculations of race playing a role in Stevens’ actions are circulating within the Black community as news of the incident has spread across the state and nationally.

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If it was my child. He wouldn;t been able to say I told you so.
Posted By: Doris J on Sep 2009
It doesn't matter whether the child was black, white or yellow. It's the fact that cruelty to children is prohibited in this country. Being that the child was not his adds to sentence greatly,I hope.
Posted By: Loreen B on Sep 2009
This is crazy!!!!! Why is this story so quite it should be on every major news media in the nation!!!!!
Posted By: Barbara W on Sep 2009
Wow, he had a lot of nerve. He's blessed not to have been beaten up by the mother or anyone who witnessed it. That was a ridiculous thing to do. Just imagine if everyone did that to crying toddlers; the jails would be overflowing!
Posted By: unknown U on Sep 2009
The utter arrogance of those people!
Posted By: Kevin B on Sep 2009
Maybe if these people didn't live like barbarians and believe that the public is the place for their children to scream this wouldn't happen. It's obviously not ok to slap a toddler but on the same token these heathens who go everywhere and give people dirty looks as their children scream are rude and deserve to be sited themselves!
Posted By: Jimmy W on Sep 2009
some people in the world is in a sad state, just read today also about a white man in atlanta beat a black woman while her 7 year ole daugther watch.all because she said sir watch yourself you almost hit my daugther with the door, and he called her nigger-bitch. people you need god!
Posted By: morrise m on Sep 2009
Father forgive them, for they do not know what they do. I hope that he burns in hell along with the rest of the devils.
Posted By: Joe M on Sep 2009
The race is not important so much as the fact that he had the nerve to carry out his threat. They would have been calling a clean-up in aisle 7 to mop up what would be left his ass if he had touched my child.
Posted By: Charlene H on Sep 2009
 
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