The firm hand of nanny
BBC NEWS | England | Hereford/Worcs | Nurse sacked after smacking son
A former school nurse is to take legal action after she was sacked for smacking her 10-year-old son at home.Susan Pope, from Malvern in Worcestershire, was arrested and her children taken from her after her eldest son reported her to police.
She said she was detained for 32 hours by West Mercia Police after the incident in May last year....Charges against her have since been dropped and her son has withdrawn the accusations. The family has been reconciled.
"We were having quite serious teenage rebellion problems with our eldest son and our middle son started swearing at me," she said.
"I warned him that I would smack him and he did not stop swearing at me so, I smacked him."
"The nanny state has come down on us with a sledgehammer to crack a nut and criminalised us for something that is not a criminal offence."