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Fayetteville Mom Arrested After Pointing Gun at Children


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Deyon Branch
Deyon Branch
A Fayetteville mother faces felony charges in connection with allegations she pointed a gun at her children.

Police said Deyon Branch, 29, became angry Thursday morning when her three children, ages 12, 10 and 9 did not clean their room.

Branch pointed the gun at the heads of the 9- and 12-year-olds, authorities said.

She is charged with assault and felony child abuse.

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A single mom pulls out a gun on her own kids just because they didn't clean up their room. That wasn't just stupid for what she did,but incredibly pathetic. There was NO EXCUSE what so ever to what she did and it was unacceptable to begin with. Anyone that does that to their own kids as a way of punishment is not only out of control but out of control. Yes,the punishment to what she did to those kids will be the punishment that she will get for an unspeakable act. What was the common sense? Or did the mother have any?

No where does it say she is a single mother, or that she is poor or lives in the hood. The picture shows she is black so does everyone assume she is single and poor and knows where she lives. She is just stupid and doesn't deserve to have children. She snapped, it happens, take those kids to safety.

It is the adults responsibility to raise the child ghetto or not. If you choose to have a baby then you have chosen to raise your child. However you decide to raise your child(ren) is your choice but in the end there will be consequences if you do it right/wrong. I live in what you call the "ghetto". I live in a low income area and yet it is not my children's fault if they are children and make poor choices. It takes practice practice practice for them to get it right. Maybe her avenue was to use force. Force that will cause mind altering affects for the rest of their lives. It's shameful and harmful to society to say it's okay or let's excuse the mother, blame the children. I wonder what would have happened if they would have done something more offensive to her like forgetting to flush the toilet. Is that grounds enough to kill them? Should she have pulled the trigger at that point? Where does it stop?

I lost my sympathy when this woman pulled a gun and held it to her children's heads. On public assistance or not, she had no right to do that. Plenty of people are on public assistance, living in public housing with children that do NOT threaten their children with guns.

LOL, Thanks kim, you have more than proven my point!

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