Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Child Abuse Investigation Centers on Supernanny Dad

Posted by Jeanne Sager

A father featured on the popular ABC show Supernanny is now at the center of an investigation into allegations that he abuses his children. 

Is anyone surprised it's the guy seen smacking his kids across the face and calling his four daughters "bitches" on camera? 

The show aired Feb. 13, featuring Phil and Debbra Davis, a Florida couple with five children, including Phil's fourteen-year-old stepdaughter, the couple's nine-year-old son and three daughters under four (yes, he calls kids under four bitches). From the get-go, Supernanny Jo Frost says Phil needs a "good talking to," as he shares his expectations for his wife (cleaning the house before she leaves for work and again after she gets home from a job where he says she "sits on her rear end all day."). When she realizes he pulls out his belt and threatens one of their toddlers, she calls him "disgusting" and "appalling." 

I couldn't have said it any better. 

A TV viewer apparently lodged the complaint to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Because it's an investigation, officials won't say whether there's more to the complaint than what was seen on camera. 

This is sure to enrage the pro-spanking parents out there, and parents who think that the arm of the law has no place in discipline. But watching the show, Davis clearly has no sense of control as he slaps his children across the face (a major no-no in my book, it's degrading in addition to painful) and calls his stepdaughter a "slut" and a "ho." 

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    Posted by Hunter Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:15pm PST

    wow, he needs some big guy to call him b---- and have him clean his little 7x7 room for all eternity... ya know the big bubba type that often frequents the prison systems.... yep that would be just fittin for this guy

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