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[G/A/F] Mother punches 10 year old son for playing too much Fortnite, dislocates his jaw

Bullet Club

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Police: Florida woman dislocated son’s jaw when he wouldn’t stop playing Fortnite, take a shower

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SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. - Ann Perugia and her 10-year-old son have different versions of what happened at her home Wednesday evening.

But after seeing the child’s dislocated jaw and finding scratches on his body, the South Dayton Police Department arrested the 35-year-old.

“This malicious act also caused her son unjustifiable pain and injury,” police said in an incident report reviewed by WFTV. “This act has no valid reason to subject the child to that kind of punishment for failing to listen to his mother.”

It started when she picked him up from school on Wednesday. She told him he could play Fortnite with his friends until 7 p.m. After that, it would be shower time, the Miami Herald reported.

The clock struck 7 p.m. and the boy was still deep into the game. Ten minutes after the hour, Perugia asked him if he had taken a shower.

“No,” he said. In a stern voice only a mother could deliver, Perugia instructed the boy to “get in the shower,” police said.

That’s where their stories split.

The boy claimed he got up and started to move toward the bathroom only to have his “irate” mom “charge” at him. While they were in the bathroom, the boy said his mother nailed him in the face with a closed-fist punch.

He said she demanded his phone because he had it hidden somewhere in the house. Eventually, the boy called his dad.

In Perugia’s version of the evening, she claimed the boy stomped his way into the bathroom, so she followed him to confront him about his attitude.

She claimed he yelled, “I hate you and you don’t do anything for me,” at her before she left the room. The next thing she remembered seeing was the boy packing a bag and calling his dad.

Perugia said the boy tried to leave, so she grabbed him by the arm and brought him back inside the house. She said he walked outside again and threw rocks at her car.

His dad found him outside with a bag of clothes and some shoes. The dad told police Perugia instructed him to take his child and leave.

The child’s aunt reported the incident to law enforcement and his father pressed charges for child abuse.

Perugia is being held without bond at the Volusia County Jail for infliction of mental and physical injury to a child.

Source: WMC5
 

Tajaz2426

Psychology PhD from Wikipedia University
I applaud you lady, I am crying a tear for you. I never had any issues with my kids with games as mommabear had them on a schedule growing up. My youngest is now a man, but anytime they wouldn’t listen and play past their 1 hour after homework and 4 hours on weekends, the pain would insure.

My pain is quite different, as my father had PTSD from Vietnam and he would beat me quite frequently, because his brain was telling him I was saying something completely different than yes sir.

So, my pain was holding a pencil out straight and it gets heavy!, or a penny against the wall holding it with their noses. If they were fighting I would make them hold hands and walk down the street yelling , “I love my sister or brother!”.

The reason we have no responsibility is parents stopped punishing their children. There is no personal responsibility anymore.

However, if I had ever heard my child tell my wife, “NO”, or to myself, I would be in jail. My boot would find their face pretty damn fast.
 
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Saber

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Yeah, breaking the kid will surely make him/her learn a lesson, right? Just don't blame the kid when something terrible either happen to him or yourself for badparenting.

Next time think twice before have children.
 
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Deleted member 471617

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I would think that playing Fortnite would be punishment enough especially over the long term. lol. Oh well.
 

Petrae

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As much as your first reaction may be to deliver a Shoryuken to that prepubescent kid who’s giving you lip and not listening to directions, it’s generally not a good idea. You need to have a better filter that separates bad instincts from decision-making in reality.

The immediate solutions? Unplug the console. Take it away immediately. If the little shitnugget goes looking for it, sell it or make him go with you when you donate it to charity. You could take a hammer to it, if you want to drive the message home, but that’s a nuclear option. Make it clear that your household is now a video game-free household, and make it stick.

That’s the easiest solution. Here’s another non-physical solution that teaches the kid responsibility, though it’s admittedly more work for the parent(s):

Immediately stop supporting the kid’s video game habit. No more buying the kid games, DLC, or online services... and coordinate with family and friends to make sure that they don’t buy any either.

the child financially responsible for his video game habit. If the child wants to play it, he’s obviously got free time. Make him work around the house (or side jobs, like mowing lawns) to earn his share of the electric bill, in addition to his video game purchases— which must be OK’d and made through you. Let him know that the first utility payment is due in 30 days, and stick to that recurring date monthly. If he doesn’t pay his share of the electric bill, take the console away; feel free to add a late fee to get it returned.
 

TacosNSalsa

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Jeez..hate to think what she'd do if she found out he used her credit card for skins or something . Pour boiling oil on him while he's sleeping or some sh*t
 
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Petrae

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Jeez..hate to think what she'd do if she found out he used her credit card for skins or something . Pour boiling oil on him while he's sleeping or some sh*t

That’s when I’d take a hammer to the kid’s video game console and smash it into a shower of tiny pieces and components, before banning the kid from playing any video game ever in the house. I wouldn’t physically harm the kid, though; it’s not worth the legal trouble.
 

Blade2.0

Member
That’s when I’d take a hammer to the kid’s video game console and smash it into a shower of tiny pieces and components, before banning the kid from playing any video game ever in the house. I wouldn’t physically harm the kid, though; it’s not worth the legal trouble.
Lol, way to waste money. The console literally has a timer and parental controls on it. Just be a responsible adult.
 

Tajaz2426

Psychology PhD from Wikipedia University
As much as your first reaction may be to deliver a Shoryuken to that prepubescent kid who’s giving you lip and not listening to directions, it’s generally not a good idea. You need to have a better filter that separates bad instincts from decision-making in reality.

The immediate solutions? Unplug the console. Take it away immediately. If the little shitnugget goes looking for it, sell it or make him go with you when you donate it to charity. You could take a hammer to it, if you want to drive the message home, but that’s a nuclear option. Make it clear that your household is now a video game-free household, and make it stick.

That’s the easiest solution. Here’s another non-physical solution that teaches the kid responsibility, though it’s admittedly more work for the parent(s):

Immediately stop supporting the kid’s video game habit. No more buying the kid games, DLC, or online services... and coordinate with family and friends to make sure that they don’t buy any either.

the child financially responsible for his video game habit. If the child wants to play it, he’s obviously got free time. Make him work around the house (or side jobs, like mowing lawns) to earn his share of the electric bill, in addition to his video game purchases— which must be OK’d and made through you. Let him know that the first utility payment is due in 30 days, and stick to that recurring date monthly. If he doesn’t pay his share of the electric bill, take the console away; feel free to add a late fee to get it returned.

My reaction would have been wearing that fucking kid on my leg like a sock puppet, after I ran back ten yards and punted that little shit like it was 4th and 15.

For you foreign football fans, I have no idea what the metaphor might be. I would kick him like I was an overpaid little white ball, kicker?
 
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Petrae

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Lol, way to waste money. The console literally has a timer and parental controls on it. Just be a responsible adult.

Kids are morons, but they aren’t fucking stupid. Parental controls are a joke, as many kids figure out passwords and shit. Kids are already bright enough to brute-force Wi-Fi passwords, so they more often than not find ways to circumvent parental settings.

Sure, destroying a console is a waste of money, but it’s a far better option than breaking a kid’s jaw and it’s easier than driving down to GameStop and getting $18 for it.
 

TacosNSalsa

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That’s when I’d take a hammer to the kid’s video game console and smash it into a shower of tiny pieces and components, before banning the kid from playing any video game ever in the house. I wouldn’t physically harm the kid, though; it’s not worth the legal trouble.
My dad did that when I was around 6-7 . Or at least he made me think he did . He took it in another room and I heard a breaking smashing sound. He said if I wanted it back I'd have to work for it . It took me over a year to make the money to "buy" it back doing the things he assigned the dollar value to . By the time all was said and done I learned how to do my own laundry ( yes I could separate whites) , learned to cook a lot of things that didnt require heavy cutting or frying , learned how to bake and learned how to install blinds.

I never found out what he broke to make that sound though..
 

Tesseract

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My dad did that when I was around 6-7 . Or at least he made me think he did . He took it in another room and I heard a breaking smashing sound. He said if I wanted it back I'd have to work for it . It took me over a year to make the money to "buy" it back doing the things he assigned the dollar value to . By the time all was said and done I learned how to do my own laundry ( yes I could separate whites) , learned to cook a lot of things that didnt require heavy cutting or frying , learned how to bake and learned how to install blinds.

I never found out what he broke to make that sound though..

his heart
 

Blade2.0

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Kids are morons, but they aren’t fucking stupid. Parental controls are a joke, as many kids figure out passwords and shit. Kids are already bright enough to brute-force Wi-Fi passwords, so they more often than not find ways to circumvent parental settings.

Sure, destroying a console is a waste of money, but it’s a far better option than breaking a kid’s jaw and it’s easier than driving down to GameStop and getting $18 for it.
If he's smart enough to brute Force passwords and figure out the passwords you set, then he's smarter than you and should be able to play as many games as he wants. The mother is obviously the dumb one in this scenario. If you don't want your kid playing games...don't buy the kid the console to begin with? If he's playing too much, regulate it. You're the fucking adult in the house. Not a ten year old kid
 
Perhaps she took the "Hitting Kids Works Wonders" advert in GTA5 a little too literally.
"I wouldn't be here today if my parents hadn't smacked the shit out of me on a regular basis!"
 

Petrae

Member
If he's smart enough to brute Force passwords and figure out the passwords you set, then he's smarter than you and should be able to play as many games as he wants. The mother is obviously the dumb one in this scenario. If you don't want your kid playing games...don't buy the kid the console to begin with? If he's playing too much, regulate it. You're the fucking adult in the house. Not a ten year old kid

At the end of the day, removing video games permanently from the household is the best solution, if the kid has an attitude problem or oversteps his authority. The issue is that many parents these days don’t have the backbone to follow through and rely on video games as virtual babysitters to keep little Johnny out of what hair they have left for a little while.

In the case of Mike Tyson’s niece here, her lack of backbone came back to bite her when she felt that a Tiger Uppercut was the only way to get control back.
 
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