“Shocking Punishment: Officer’s Disturbing ‘Discipline’ Leaves 6-Year-Old Drenched in Fear and Cold”
In a shocking turn of events that seems straight out of a dark comedy, a six-year-old girl found herself on the wrong end of a chilling “punishment” designed by her own parents—a police officer and his partner. Imagine standing outside in frigid temperatures, clutching a cardboard sign scrawled with alarming phrases, all while the snow crunches beneath your tiny boots and the wind whips around you like it’s auditioning for a role in a horror movie. Yes, you read that right—her sign declared thoughts so disturbing that it raises the question: what could possibly justify such an extreme disciplinary measure? For the parents, this was merely a fitting consequence for their child’s behavior. But wait, just when you think you’ve heard it all about parenting tactics, the twists keep coming. What’s the line between discipline and neglect? The case has brought them under scrutiny, and you’ll definitely blink twice when you learn how it all unfolded. This is a story worth diving deep into. Curious yet? Click to LEARN MORE.
Two horrific sentences were written on a six-year-old girl’s handmade cardboard sign as she stood outside in the freezing snow for hours on end.
“I want to stab and k–ll my brother, I even take an antipsychotic. If you need to give pity, then give it to the victims,” it read.
Why was she standing in 18-degree Fahrenheit weather, with wind speeds of 17 mph, for what seemed like an endless time, holding an atrocious message? To her parents, it seemed like the only fitting punishment.
- A police officer forced his 6-year-old daughter to stand outside in freezing cold as punishment.
- The girl held a sign confessing to rather violent thoughts about her brother.
- Both parents were arrested and now face charges of neglecting a dependent.
- What are the consequences of excessive punishment on a child’s well-being?
Research shows that excessive and arbitrary punishment can make children feel mistreated, which may lead to feelings of resentment. A better method to discipline children would be to make them understand their mistakes in a way that doesn’t cause them to negative focus on themselves.
Now, action has been taken against them.
A 6-year-old girl was forced to stand outside in freezing temperatures with a horrific sign as a fitting ‘punishment’
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An appalled passerby in Logansport, Indiana, first called 911 on January 19 after spotting the disturbing scene. Later on, her parents Cody Allen Scott, 33, and Kylie Jo Scott, 34, were arrested after the former — who is a police officer himself — confessed to the crime.
“Yup, she comes out here every 30 minutes, and she goes back inside every 10 minutes to warm back up,” he said, in footage captured by his own bodycam.
When asked by an older man why any of this was necessary, Cody simply replied, “Do you want the short version or the long version?”
“Probably the short version is probably best,” he said.
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Cody then launched into an explanation he deemed justifiable.
“Well, sir, aside from me cruelly beating her physically, I’ve not done any other punishment that has worked for her,” he said. “She’s threatened to k–ll my family, she wants to embarrass us, she wants to urinate on herself and destroy things in the house.
“I have a DCS caseworker involved, she’s been in therapy for three years, she also has the wraparound program at school. She goes in every 30 minutes to warm back up, she’s bundled up very warm and then she’ll come back out.”
A confession had been scrawled across the girl’s handmade cardboard sign
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When Indiana State Police investigators talked to Kylie, she only backed up what her husband had told them.
She said her daughter had mental disorders and had threatened to cut and shoot her own brother. Additionally, her six-year-old often urinated on herself for attention and broke her toys.
But when police asked the little girl herself, she claimed she was often told to wait inside her bedroom while she was grounded and had to ask to use the bathroom. In the affidavit, police wrote that being forced to wait had caused her to wet herself.
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This specific incident, however, started when Kylie and Cody’s daughter intended to put on lip gloss for church, only to forget about it and pout at Sunday school to get attention.
Investigators also noticed indications that the girl had been prepared for her interview at the child advocacy center by going over potential questions she might be asked — and how to respond accordingly.
“The affiant finds this form of discipline to be disproportionate to the offense and unnecessarily degrading,” wrote the police in the document.
In a unanimous vote, the Logansport Board of Public Works and Safety Committee placed Logansport Police Officer Cody Scott on unpaid administrative leave, according to Fox 59.
