Taser gun used on 10-year-old girl who 'refused to take shower'
A police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue a 10-year-old girl in her own home.

By Nick Allen in Los Angeles
Published: 12:12AM GMT 19 Nov 2009

A police officer using a Taser gun Photo: PA
The officer had been called to the girl's home in Ozark, Arkansas, by her mother because she was behaving in an unruly manner and refusing to take a shower.

In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin Bradshaw, said the mother gave him permission to use the Taser.


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"Her mother told me to take her if I needed to," the officer wrote.

The child was "violently kicking and verbally combative" when he tried to take her into custody and she kicked him in the groin.

He then delivered "a very brief drive stun to her back," the report said.

The girl's father, Anthony Medlock, who is divorced from her mother, said the girl showed signs of emotional problems but did not deserve to be "treated like an animal".

He said: "Ten years old and they shot electricity through her body, and I want to know how the heck in God's green earth can they get away with this.

"If you can't pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don't think you need to be an officer. She doesn't deserve to be treated like a dog. She's not a tiger." Local Mayor Vernon McDaniel said the FBI should investigate.

He said: "People here feel like that he made a mistake in using a Taser, and maybe he did, but we will not know until we get an impartial investigation." The local Police Chief Jim Noggle said no disciplinary action was taken against Bradshaw.

"We didn't use the Taser to punish the child, just to bring the child under control so she wouldn't hurt herself or somebody else," he said.

He said if the officer tried to forcefully put the girl in handcuffs, he could have accidentally broken her arm or leg.

Mr Noggle said the girl will face disorderly conduct charges as a juvenile.


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How sad that things like this are going on in the world.

Sounds like something has gone terribly wrong with mom...

my problem with this is why didn't the mother just spank her butt and put her in the shower....

New toys will eventually come out in the news when they are abused. Tasers.

When I was a kid, the big thing was paregoric acid. A little was for diareah. More, puts the kid out. That stuff was used quite a bit.

Chance is, the mother could possibly have been put in jail for whoopin' th' kid.

Let the kid smell and get made fun of at school by boys. She would shower eventually.

I hope there are missing details here,,disorderly conduct in ones OWN home? thats a new one,,seems like most the ten and under children in this country should be getting 'arrested' everyday if thats truly a punishable criminal offense.

that's my answer, too.

that's about as natural of a consequence as you can get.

I'm with you on this one. My 9 yr old does that to me her butts getting spanked and she WILL be in that shower. Sheesh who's the parent here.

Can't do that. That would be considered abuse and someone in the neighborhood would have called the cops and had the mother arrested.

And risk the wrath of the Child Protection Agencies for cruelty to a child? No, no,no! It is much safer to have a policeman use a taser, after all, this ten year old has enough strength to overpower the policeman, knick his squad car keys, pick up her friends and recreate the Thelma and Louise saga!!!!!

wow.
somethings definitely messed up with that situation.
although shouldnt come to too much of a shock considering the crap that does go on in this world.

things like this make me want to rethink the entire system to re-evaluate if it is really working.