Couple Accused Making 3-Year-Old Fight(Fort Hood soldier and his wife)

[meisje]

KILLEEN, Texas (AP) -- A Fort Hood soldier and his wife have been accused of injury to a child for allegedly forcing their 3-year-old daughter to beat up an older boy as they videotaped it, Killeen police said.

Dennis Michael Bittinger, 22, was arrested Wednesday and his wife, Rhonda Nicole Bittinger, 23, was taken into custody Thursday, police said.

The fight allegedly occurred Saturday while the couple babysat for the 5-year-old son of a friend, police said. When the boy's mother arrived to pick him up, she turned on the couple's video camera, which had previously been used to tape the children playing.

Police said the tape shows the soldier commanding his daughter to knock the victim down, kick him and hit him in the face. The girl follows her father's instructions as the boy cries and pleads for her to stop, police said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VIDEO_KIDS_FIGHT?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-03-23-22-13-01

[mark11727]

1. Texas --- A Whole Other Country, INDEED.

[regnaD kciN]

4. I'm not sure it's so much "Texas" as "the military"...

Not to impugn the character of all soldiers, but the military, like the police, can attract those for whom the appeal is the ability to use lethal force with societal approval. People with that sort of violent streak don't always save it for "facing the enemy," IMHO.

[mark11727]

10. True, but do you ever notice...

...that whenever some REALLY weird goes down, the same three names just keep popping up?

TEXAS

KANSAS

FLORIDA

And I've been to both Texas and Florida, and they're lovely places, I'll admit, but just the same...

[Javaman]

11. I live in Texas and I'll agree, some weird crap goes down here. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. That is sick

[Syncronaut Seven]

3. Arrested by who? Wouldn't one be tried as a civillian, the other UCMJ?

Doesn't surprise me in the least, These animals are imboldened by the shit slinging monkey and his unrepentant, unpunished violence against innocents. Time for the zookeper to come down hard, where IS that zookeeper anyway?

[regnaD kciN]

6. The zookeeper...

...is very fond of rum.

[dusmcj]

5. Connected and Under Control = psychopaths. nt

[regnaD kciN]

7. It gets worse...

The tape also shows the man declaring his daughter the "winner," and he shoves the boy and demands to know why he didn't defend himself, police said.

The incident left the boy with bruises.

Beaten up, then further ridiculed for not hitting back (at a younger girl). What sort of effect do you think that's going to have on that boy's relationships with women later on down the road?

:scared:

[proud patriot]

8. As a mother of a young man (turns 10 soon)

this is the polar opposite of what I
try to instill in my son .

It's one thing to defend yourself , it is
quite another to hit a younger child .

I'm glad the parents are in custody .

[niyad]

9. not that the bittengers probably have a whole lot, but if I were the

parent of that young boy, I would sue the hell out of them. what a disgusting and horrid set of people they are!! I hope the little girl is taken away from them, and gets LOTS of therapy-and the little boy, too (therapy, I mean)

[WestSeattle2]

12. With mental cases like this....

it's really not hard to see how Abu Gharib could happen, now is it? Can you picture this sadistic ass as a prison guard?

Well, any doubts about the military lowering their standards in order to meet quotas, should be erased.

[Atman]

13. Well, come on...midget bowling and bum bashing are so passe!

Jesus, what the fuck is wrong with Texas? The land of sociopaths!