Cincinnati, Ohio
On April 11, 2013, trouble was brewing at
Andrew's Friends Pre-School & Daycare; two of the children had gotten into an altercation that ended with
one of them biting the other.
While biting someone is a surefire way to show that you mean business (or that you've lost the intellectual high ground), it is also a good way to spread diseases or cause an infection for the person who has been bitten.
Due to the serious nature of such an incident, the chomping child was taken to the daycare's main office for what he surely though would be a well deserved stern talking-to along with some type of disciplinary action. Instead, a 56-year-old staff member by the name of
Robin Mullins, who had worked at the daycare for the
last six years, decided to go the 'eye for an eye' route and
bit the offending child on the arm.
This wasn't just a little nip, either.
WLWT News 5 obtained
this picture from the boys mother, which looks more like the work of a rabid ferret than an elderly daycare employee.
Mullins apparently went Hannibal Lecter on the kid to
teach him a lesson. Now usually, I'm totally fine with a harsh punishment for one child physically assaulting/biting another. But there are some lines that should never be crossed...and an adult biting another child is well past wherever it is drawn.
When the boy's mother arrived to pick him up, she was understandably irate about what had happened. But when she confronted Mullins about the incident, her response was to explain that she didn't mean to bite him that hard. She then turned to the boy and
smugly proclaimed "But it taught you a lesson, didn't it?"
"Yes...adults can have behavioral disorders, too."
Robin Mullins was arrested,
charged with assault, and taken to jail. She was later freed
without bail, but (predictably)
has been fired from her job at the daycare center.
Her trial was set for the morning of April 12, the results of which have not yet been published.
If she does end up doing time, however, she'll be alright; no one
wants to tangle with a woman who's a biter and has a mustache.
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