Customers Alert Police After Realizing Why Little Girl Was Walking So Strangely

Burch said she flagged down an officer and he called his sergeant with the Cleveland Police Department.
The department later posted on Facebook that they had been receiving numerous calls in regards to the incident.
“The Cleveland Police Department has received numerous calls in regards to a child having her hair pulled last night at Cleveland Wal-Mart,” the department wrote in a Facebook post. “We want to assure the community this case is currently being investigated by our Detective Division.
“CPS has been contacted per our policy and is also investigating this case. A joint investigation is currently being conducted by both agencies.”
“Police are concerned at this time for the children who may be in the home with the dad who appeared to have been a little aggressive at the time,” Cleveland Police Chief Darrel Broussard told KTRK.
But Burch claims a sergeant told her the man “has the right to discipline his children.” She said the sergeant also told her that in order for the incident to be considered abuse, “there had to be bodily injury to the child.”
“People are telling me I’m wrong for stepping up for this little girl, but you can discipline a child without dragging them by the hair on their head, especially in Wal-Mart,” Burch told KTRK. “I want help for that little girl so that she knows nobody is supposed to do that to her,” Burch said.
Burch wrote in the post that the sergeant told her that the man ‘has the right to discipline his children’.
She also added in the post that the sergeant told her for it to be ‘abuse there had to be bodily injury to the child’
Sources: www.americanow.com