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Taser Used on Eleven-Year-Old Girl

How big can an eleven year old be? An eleven year old might be in grade five, perhaps grade six. Apparently, an adult country deputy could not control this eleven year old girl and used a Taser to subdue the student:

“…Orange County Deputy Donna Hudepohl pulled out her Taser and fired it at the Moss Park Elementary School student after repeated efforts to control her. The student, whose name was not released, faces charges of battery on a law-enforcement officer, disrupting a school function, as well as resisting with violence, the arrest report shows.”

link: Student punches deputy in nose, gets shot with Taser

There will be those who will say that the child deserved it. However, would those same sentiments hold if it was your eleven year old child who had been stunned with a Taser weapon?

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What do you think?

Agarath - March 27, 2008 @ 12:59 pm

Bravo, an eleven year old child, If there is a “law enforcement officer that cannot control by physical means a child, maybe they should stick to paper work.

In Canada the federal police force has been forced to reveal (and still censoring), that in the western province they have tasered 500 or more people.

I can’t express my disgust with the police forces that allow the abuse of these tools enough.

Chris - March 27, 2008 @ 3:31 pm

If you read the blurb from the taser company it will something along the lines that their product does not harm the subject.

In the great scheme of Law enforcement use of force it could be agrued that to physically restrain a child could cause more long term damage than a taser.

At the end of the day the court the Officer will have to justify there position to a court of law.

It is very easy for us all to say well what damage can an eleven year old do - we were not there and not faced with the situation.

I may not agree with whats happened - devils advocate!

George - March 27, 2008 @ 10:00 pm

If she had a gun, I would have tasered her. The fact is, she didn’t. How hard is it for a cop to subdue an 11 year old girl? Well lets see… full grown adult male, police training… yeah… I’d say it would be REALLY easy for the cop to subdue her without any injury involved. But he was trigger happy. And trigger happy cops don’t make good cops.

oztech - March 28, 2008 @ 7:27 am

Not sure if you all heard about it, but in Chicago they used a taser on a man and he died.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-taser-death-20mar20,1,2113367.story

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