An apparently aggrieved dad punished his daughter by making videos of her with a shaming sign on cardboard sheet hung around her neck that says she is a thief and liar.
The Indiana dad, Gary Mills, subsequently shared the three videos with the sign that reads, “My name is Abby Mills & I am a LIAR & a THIEF! I’ve stolen from my parents, brothers & sister. Aunts & uncles. I even stole my 9-yr-old cousin’s Christmas presents.”
In the first video, Mills said, “Indiana does not have a program that allows teens to see what’s inside of a jail cell … to keep ‘em out of trouble,” Mills said. “You can call it a little tough love or a little tough justice. This is what she’s gonna be doing today. So she can be embarrassed! So everybody knows what it’s like! She’ll understand, I hope, and stop doing the stupid s**t that she does. So we’re down here in front of the Wayne County Courthouse, and she’s gonna be walking up and down the street today — with this sign on her! She’s gonna be standin’ on the corner, the whole nine yards.”
The very angry man asked viewers to share the video “so everybody in the world will know my daughter’s a thief and I’m sick and tired of it!”
He further lashed out blames on the authorities who according to him, were not doing enough for problem juveniles.
He said, “My mother always told me that I’m gonna have a child that’s 10 times worse than me. Well, here she is. “Maybe this will teach her to keep her sticky fingers off other people’s property.”
“This has all got to stop,” Mills said in the second clip and in the third one added, “I don’t want to see my girl get locked up. “If it takes my last breath to keep her from gettin’ locked up, that’s what it’s gonna take. She’s gotta understand that I mean business, and this is my last straw before she gets put into the system.”
Towards the end of the video, Mills asked his daughter if she would steal again, and said, “I love you, I’m always gonna love you … I’m your father and I’m never gonna give up on you. I just want you to understand that.”
He further added that she “also told me thank you,” which suggests that the punishment really “opened her eyes to what the point of the matter is.”
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