welfare chief , attorney for arrested baton rouge mom differ on what constitutes child abuse the way to tell when disciplining a child has gone too far is when a child is left bleeding or with cuts , burns or bruises , the state ’s top child welfare official said thursday .
rca connectors began to replace the older quarter - inch phone connectors for many other applications in the consumer audio world when component high - fidelity systems started becoming popular in the 1950s .
she told our cameras she thought she was doing the right thing by disciplining her children .
update , 9:04 a.m. , june 22 , 2016 ' it 's been hell , ' says baton rouge mom jailed for allegedly beating sons after catching them burglarizing home original story : a baton rouge mother who caught her three sons breaking into a residence was arrested tuesday after she whipped them as a punishment , east baton rouge deputies said .
the arrest reports says her 13 - year - old reportedly told east baton rouge sheriff ’s office detectives that spears had struck him with an rca cord multiple times .
the name rca derives from the radio corporation of america , which introduced the design by the early 1940s for internal connection of the pickup to the chassis in home radio - phonograph consoles .
but the decision to jail 30 - year - old schaquana evita spears on child cruelty counts was questioned by the local district attorney and scolded by strangers as far away as california , prompting a debate about where to draw the line between well - meaning discipline and child abuse .
30 - year - old schaquana spears was booked on child cruelty charges monday morning .
department of children and family services secretary marketa garner walters said in a statement that she felt “ compelled to address a question many are asking ” about child abuse but did n’t specify any particular case she was addressing .