Stone Mountain, Georgia, man Roger Stephens was arrested on August 31, 2009, after slapping an unruly toddler at a Wal-Mart. He was charged with felony cruelty to children.http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/02/georgia.tot.slapped/index.html
Stephens approached the mother of the child after the toddler was repeatedly crying in the store. After telling the mother "If you don't shut that baby up, I will shut her up for you," Stephens allegedly slapped the girl in the face four or five times.http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/02/georgia.tot.slapped/index.html