BATON ROUGE - A Baton Rouge mother who was arrested by East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputies after she admitted to whipping her sons as punishment for breaking into a house has bonded out of jail. She told our cameras she thought she was doing the right thing by disciplining her children.
30-year-old Schaquana Spears was booked on child cruelty charges Monday morning.
The arrest reports says her 13-year-old reportedly told East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office detectives that Spears had struck him with an RCA cord multiple times. The boy had cuts on both arms and marks across his body, according to investigators.
The other two boys, aged 10 and 12, also had injuries, according to arrest documents.
Spears was booked into the parish prison on two counts of cruelty to juveniles with bond set at $2,500.
District Attorney Hillar Moore released a statement about the incident:
"Parents have the right and obligation to discipline and teach their children. We often time see children who have no parental authority or discipline which eventually results in delinquency and criminal acts. We need more parents who discipline their children. Surely you would expect a parent to discipline a child who is burglarizing other people's homes as this could be a deadly encounter for the child. The degree of physical discipline will be reviewed. The law does not allow excessive pain or cruelty but does allow physical parental discipline...
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