Current Events > California councilman spanks daughter, gets arrested

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https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Lawmaker-Child-Cruelty-Spanked-Daughter-502662121.html

California lawmaker arrested on suspicion of child cruelty said Wednesday the allegation stemmed from spanking his 7-year-old daughter.

Democratic Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula said he spanked his daughter Sunday night and it's a punishment tool he rarely uses, the Fresno Bee newspaper reported . He said he has no plans to resign.

"Everyone who knows us in the community and has seen us in the community knows that I'm a loving father," Arambula said while standing next to his wife, Elizabeth. "I care about my daughters deeply. And I'm just going through a process and trying the best I can to be a husband and father who's putting us back together again."

Arambula is a former emergency room doctor who was elected in 2016 to represents parts of Fresno County. He has three daughters, ages 3, 6 and 7.

He was arrested Monday after officials at Dailey Elementary Charter School reported a child with an injury, Fresno police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

Arambula said he believes his daughter went to school angry and told a teacher about what had happened. He thanked the school, child protective services and the police for doing their jobs.

Arambula was released shortly after his arrest and has not been formally charged. His daughters stayed with his parents for two nights until child protective services said they could go back home Wednesday, the newspaper reported.

"There's a process to be played out, and this process played out, and they determined that the kids should go back home," Arambula said. "I'm excited about that. But we have a job and a responsibility to continue to be good parents, and that's what I want to work on and will strive to do."

Authorities will check in on the Arambulas in 30 days and suggested the family seek therapy, he said.

Arambula's arrest was for a misdemeanor not a felony because the injury did not require medical attention, Dyer said, according to the Bee. Spanking a child is generally legal if it's in a fleshy area such as the buttocks but not if it's in a place likely to cause injury like the face, he said.

Discipline is now child abuse, i guess
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Spanking isn't effective, but neither is being shocked that as a Democrat in California that you might get in trouble for something like this.
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His poor daughter gonna be scarred for life now.
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Lordgold666 posted...

Discipline is now child abuse, i guess

Discipline is a fucked up concept

You need to discipline a developing human? Wtf they don't even know fully what is right and wrong. It's called teaching.

Imagine hitting someone.
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Spanking your kid is discipline not abuse......still no surprise that the liberal nanny squad would arrest him. Kids should be coddled and given everything free because life is "poopy and mean" right libs?

ninjarobot_22 posted...

He thanked the school, child protective services and the police for doing their jobs.

lmao

Thank you sir, may I have another?
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Snowflake state, let it burn
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ITT: "I GOT SPANKED AND TURNED OUT FINE"

Child abuse is child abuse
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Highwind07 posted...

The daughter didn't tell the school where she was hit, right? If she was hit anywhere other than the butt and it left a mark then it should be a cause for concern but all the article said was that she went to school angry.

The end implies that he hit her on the butt as it says that is the legal place and the cops let him go.
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AcFan87 posted...

Spanking your kid is discipline not abuse......still no surprise that the liberal nanny squad would arrest him. Kids should be coddled and given everything free because life is "poopy and mean" right libs?

Right, theres no other way of disciplining a child other than to inflict physical harm on them.

good
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HowardStern69 posted...

ITT: "I GOT SPANKED AND TURNED OUT FINE"

Child abuse is child abuse

Child abuse = child abuse

Spanking on butt =/= child abuse

Infact according to above article, butt spanking legal in even cali
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Nothing more off putting than a grown man spanking his daughter.
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Frankly I'm on the fence with the whole physical discipline stuff. Like ok studies say it's not effective so now it being illegal is super enforced. But at the same time every living person has suffered a spanking they know they deserved. So... maybe making a law about it is a bit much? Maybe everyone is different and develops and learns differently? idk just a thought
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California

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Dont hit your kids. Not a tough concept guys
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Spanking doesn't even work. It's just violence for the sake of violence.
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I believe in spanking, circumcision, well done steaks, ketchup on steaks, pineapple on pizza, that there are only two genders, and that .999999=1

Smash isnt a real fighting game

Come at me
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NeuralLaxative posted...

I believe in spanking, circumcision, well done steaks, ketchup on steaks, pineapple on pizza, that there are only two genders, and that .999999=1

Smash isnt a real fighting game

Come at me

I will buy you a drink my good man
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WalktotheMoon posted...

NeuralLaxative posted...

I believe in spanking, circumcision, well done steaks, ketchup on steaks, pineapple on pizza, that there are only two genders, and that .999999=1

Smash isnt a real fighting game

Come at me

I will buy you a drink my good man

I bet he wants a flat blend of coke and pepsi with plastic bottle gin in it.
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Hitting a child isn't acceptable behavior. Fair, next.
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Back in Elementary school I got sent to the office for being an asshole and was given the choice of either 1 day of in school suspension or getting a paddling.

I chose the paddling and didn't get sent to the office again until like high school, but that was for a prank that was well worth it.

Good, all forms of physical abuse towards children should be outlawed. Every single modern study, some conducted for decades, dictate that nothing good comes spanking. My kids are well behaved and I've never raised a hand at them. It's called good parenting, a seemingly dying art form.
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I'm curious what the injury was. This wasn't just a matter of an angry kid saying he hit me. They had physical evidence that prompted them to get the police involved.
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Wow
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Good, keep that outdated shit in fiction
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What an idiot

I think spanking is dumb, as well as any physical punishments, but having the state do this is pretty ridiculous unless marks are left.

Arambula? Is that Aragula's twin?
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I was spanked once. I still remember it to this day
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#spankedtoo

Go sit on the "time out" step. Yes, you can still keep your phone connected to the wi-fi.
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dmsarposoth posted...

#spankedtoo

lol

ninjarobot_22 posted...

Arambula's arrest was for a misdemeanor not a felony because the injury did not require medical attention, Dyer said, according to the Bee. Spanking a child is generally legal if it's in a fleshy area such as the buttocks but not if it's in a place likely to cause injury like the face, he said.

So... he spanked his kid's face....?
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dmsarposoth posted...

#spankedtoo

lol