US girl, 10, tasered over tantrum
Unruly 10-year-old girl given taser shock by police officer in front of her mother
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By Matt Hallam. |  |
Thursday, 19, Nov 2009 04:20
By inthenews.co.uk staff..
A ten-year-old girl has been stunned with a taser gun by a policeman after she threw a tantrum.
Reports in Arkansas state today say that the police officer has been suspended for a week while the case is investigated.
According to reports, the police officer, Dustin Bradshaw, was called to a home in Ozark, near Little Rock, over a domestic disturbance.
When he arrived at the home he found a girl curled up on the floor screaming. A report he filed afterwards said the girl was resisting her mother, who was trying to get her in the shower before bed.
In his report Mr Bradshaw claims the girls mother said he could taser her if he needed to. He said he tried to take the girl into custody but she was "violently kicking and verbally combative" and struck him. He then gave her a very "brief drive stun to her back".
The mayor of Ozark in Franklin County said he wanted an investigation to be launched into the incident.
Today reports in the Arkansas Democratic Gazette said Police Chief Jim Noggle suspended Officer Bradshaw on Wednesday because he did not have the Taser's video camera attached to the weapon at the time he used it on the girl.
The girl's father Anthony Medlock told the newspaper that his daughter has emotional problems, but she was unarmed and should not have been tasered.
"My daughter does not deserve to be tasered and be treated like an animal," said Mr Medlock, who is divorced from the girl's mother and does not have custody.