An Arkansas woman was taken to jail for using a switch on her great-granddaughter, who she says was misbehaving.
Police say the girl has visible welts on her arm.
Norma Toussaint, 70, says she’s not a bad person but says she did pull a switch off her front hedges, stripped the leaves and used it to punish her 12-year-old great-granddaughter.
Toussaint said, “I went back in the house and whooped her on her arm.”
Upset, the girl threatened to dial 911.
Toussaint recalled, “I asked, I said, ‘You want to call the police on me?’ And she said, ‘yes.’ I said call them then.”
At least four Hot Springs police officers showed up to the home Monday morning, KARK-TV reports.
According to an incident report, Toussaint and the girl both told police it stemmed from the 12-year-old not throwing away food and talking back.
“I said, ‘You gonna give me some lip by what you’re not going to do?’ They do this to you they think they can do anything with it and get away with it,” Toussaint said.
KARK reports hundreds of people disagree with the decision to arrest the grandmother.