Virginia judge rules mother went too far in disciplining her 6 year old

A Virginia dentist finds out the hard way that there is a such thing as going too far in spanking your children. CBS reports:

A note sent home from a six-year-old’s kindergarten teacher is what a prosecutor in Stafford County says sparked a beating incident.

Prosecutor Tara Mooney said Dr. Felicia Kimble-Tanks crossed the line from discipline to abuse several months ago when she spanked her child, using a leather belt.

The case was settled this week in Stafford Circuit Court.

Kimble-Tanks’ case is causing some parents to think just how far they would go to discipline their child?

Kimble-Tanks found herself in legal trouble when a spanking with a belt left bruises on her 6 year old daughter.

Mooney believes it’s a case of abuse while the mom’s attorney said she was disciplining the girl for bad behavior at home and at school.

Kari Jackson has mixed feelings about the case, but pointed out that “you can discipline your child without bruising.”

The six-year old girl’s father, who didn’t live in the home, spotted multiple bruises two days after the girl was hit with the belt.

Mooney said the girl was even told by her mother not to tell anyone she had been spanked in that way. The dad contacted authorities.

This week Dr. Kimble-Tanks pled guilty to a lesser misdemeanor charge of assault and battery on a family member.

The judge is mandating that she refrain from spanking her daughter for two years.