Police: Washing mouth out with soap a crime floridatoday.com FLORIDA TODAY:
"It was a Wednesday evening along Shenandoah Road when the 8-year-old girl said a bad word, Palm Bay Police said."
According to investigative reports, the girl's mother, 32-year-old Adriyanna Herdener, deferred punishment to her live-in boyfriend, 41-year-old Wilfredo Rivera. After all, he was the father of their 18-month-old daughter and, as Herdener told police, "the head of the household."
What happened next went from simple punishment to what police call a crime and saw both adults lose custody of their children.
Herdener told police that Rivera went into the home's bathroom, grabbed a bar of Irish Spring soap sitting in a dish and told the girl not just to wash her mouth out with it, but to eat it.
It is a ramped-up version of an old-fashioned punishment many of today's adults endured as children -- and one experts say just doesn't work anymore, if it ever did.
"It was a Wednesday evening along Shenandoah Road when the 8-year-old girl said a bad word, Palm Bay Police said."
According to investigative reports, the girl's mother, 32-year-old Adriyanna Herdener, deferred punishment to her live-in boyfriend, 41-year-old Wilfredo Rivera. After all, he was the father of their 18-month-old daughter and, as Herdener told police, "the head of the household."
What happened next went from simple punishment to what police call a crime and saw both adults lose custody of their children.
Herdener told police that Rivera went into the home's bathroom, grabbed a bar of Irish Spring soap sitting in a dish and told the girl not just to wash her mouth out with it, but to eat it.
It is a ramped-up version of an old-fashioned punishment many of today's adults endured as children -- and one experts say just doesn't work anymore, if it ever did.