What ever happened to just being grounded for bad grades? Losing the keys to the car, not hanging out with friends, missing the dance....all these sound a little more appropriate for bad behavior. Or, how about this...What if the mom actually tried to help her son with his school work in the future? Could she not have just made a commitment to help him understand the work instead of torturing his beloved pet? And I thought my parents were strict.

I'm an animal lover, but forget the animal for a second. This kid is going to have a rough future.

That woman looks as insane as she sounds. Hope her children are with someone safe and of sound mind now. Imagine another 6 years or so of her rearing, she could quite possibly be the proud mother of a serial killer. Really, what mother thinks its OK to force their child to slaughter a pet like that? Does she not think it could scar the poor child for life?

All these stories about animal cruelty make my blood boil. Will it ever end??

Please, Social Services, never give this woman's kids back to her.

I hate to say this Cheryl, but no, these animal cruelty stories will never end.

Those of us that love and care about animals, must insist that our public officials, pass stricter penalties. People that abuse animals inet crimes that cause maiming &/or death should require jail time. This woman abused her child as well so she should never be allowed to raise him or her other children and never allowed to own any pets again. I have grave concerns for the safety of any vulnerable people or animals in her care.

If you want to help pass meaningful legislation that helps animals go to www.humanesociety.org/ or www.aspca.org

I am from the local area and know this woman. She is really a piece of work. She started dating her current husband when he was like 15 and she was a married woman with a baby. Never played with a full deck.

The first thing that came to my mind was mommy dearest! When I got bad grades, I was grounded. Not today's grounding where most parents just say it but don't enforce it, but actually grounded! I couldn't watch tv, attend after school activities such as dances or games, couldn't hang out with friends, nothing! I had to get my grades up before I was allowed to do anything fun! And I had to do more chores. Those extra chores included taking care of our dogs. You know, feeding them, taking them out, giving them baths, etc etc. But that didn't include my mom forcing me to kill our dogs!

This is just sick! I hope she doesn't get her kids back for a very long time, if ever. And I REALLY hope she is never allowed to have animals again.

PeachyKeen -- Is there any local talk about taking those kids away from this monster? This incident, horrific as it is, just happens to be one we've HEARD about. I'll bet someone who would force a child to do something like this (poor kid is going to have this scar for the rest of his life) would be the perpetrator of many more horrendous episodes that we haven't even heard about.

She obviously needs psychiatric treatment or confinement. She's disturbed.

Can you imagine the mental trauma and anguish this child must have went thru? The horror of doing something like that at the instructions or insistence of all people..of your Mother..

Mommie dearest..

Lets hope this child does not carry this with him as he grows older ...and besides all of the human tragedy..the lil hamster didnt deserve death by hammer.

shame shame on that mom who must carry a bit of wickedness inside of her.

Two extremes seems to be the way anymore; a new kind of balance. Parents either let their kids run wild, be disrespectful to them, their teachers, and strangers. I heard a teen age boy call his mother a bit@#% in the doctor's waiting room last week, in front of ten people; she said nothing. We have the too rich and the too poor, the too left and the too right. Where is the middle ground anymore, the middle class, the moderate politician? What happened to common sense?

I am so upset for this little boy. The mother naturally has to be disturbed and Im sure this child has been tortured all his life. I pray that this child will never be returned to his mother for any reason what so ever and get lots and lots of help to be able to heal from this and be a normal part of society. When I heard this I cryed all the way to work because I just imagined being so disturbed that I would make my child do something so horrible. I would just hope and pray if I was this disturbed someone that loved me would get me help or atleast get my children away from me and somewhere safe. Everyone please pray for Gods hand to be on this child and help him heal from this.

What's the big deal? She gets jail for a hamster? Now the kids gets to wait for mother to get home and catch a whooping for sending her to jail.

@ Support the victim: This is not a call to pass more laws, unless it's a law about humans being allowed to breed. The state and fed do not need to pass stricter laws, people just suck. Laws don't make people suck less. They just make the everyday suck more for everyone as a whole. Besides, animal cruelty is not the root cause of the issue, poor parenting is. So unless you're suggesting to make a law about breeding or parenting qualifications, you can just pipe down. I love my cat. I know you were just trying to help, so why don't you help yourself to a logic textbook and learn some root cause analysis techniques before you suggest a more legislation. Kthnxbye.

I think the mom should be kiled with a hammer

I'm sure this isn't the whole story. I'm sure he nagged his mom to death for a hamster and finally against her better judgment she got him one. He probably took the hamster out to play with it on more than one occasion, lost it and his mom had to tear the house apart looking for it so it didn't die somewhere and start making a smell. There could have been more than one hamster. She could have been kept awake at night (germophobe that she may be) with nightmares of hamsters breeding like crazy, chewing up her house and turning her nice place into a dunghole just like what happens when there is rampant cat breeding inside one house.

Making the boy kill it himself is still pretty twisted I'll admit.

She could have just glued it to the road like a normal person.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580677,00.html

For every hamster you save, I will eat two.

Hell my mom would just make me grab the dictionary and copy pages for hours. Needless to say my vocabulary is great now, at the time it worked great, as I hated it, and I'm sure that was her point.

ahh the south..you stay classy..and yes im generalizing. NUKE THE SOUTH!!!NUKE THE SOUTH!!! NUKE THE SOUTH!!!

Hey, people put their kids in the military and send them out to kill other peoples kids...she was just providing early training!

Wow, that bitch is fucked in the head

How did Mufasa try and fit this in his circle of life thing? i mean i once had to put a suffering tarantula out of his misery after its abdomen split open and the closest object happened to be a hammer but that made me sad for months i cant imagine if my mom made me do this to one of my healthy hamsters.

*cough*
Ok, so it's midnight here and I was reading two articles at once.

This article about white trash was actually quite interesting though. In my country (Sweden...no need to worry about it, it's in Europe, I don't expect you to find that (Europe) on a map anyhow) this piece of shit wouldn't even have gotten a fine.

Funnily enough, neither would the negro that raped a woman. But if he had been white, had had a job and had cheated on his taxes...he'd be screwed.

Ash Yes Awesome the south, ol'dixie. You said it all... States of Sophistication... If it weren't for the south the north would have nothing to laugh at.

This woman should be beaten with a hammer for what she did to this childs psyche and that poor hamster. I have never punished my child for grades. As long as she puts the effort in and asks for help when she needs it, I only expect improvement not perfection. The damage she has done to that childs mental health is the most evil thing I have ever heard of. The hamster didn't deserve that fate.

Wow! My heart goes out to that boy. Someone get him away from his demented "mother", and please let him know that getting bad grades surely is not the end of the world (yeah, it was for that poor hamster!). Please, please find him a normal family who will help him with his homework and give him love, lots of love. That poor child!

How unbelievably sick and evil that mother is. That child needs to be taken away from her permanently, though some foster homes have their share of abuse as well. It would be great if his mother's parental rights were terminated and the child could be adopted by a loving family, so they could help him heal from the horrific upbringing he must have had.

Well, that's a Mormon for ya...

This demented person should be dipped in sunflower seed oil and dropped into a pit of starving hamsters,and have a hammer thrown to her and given a choice of be eaten alive or beating her self to death!! I pray this child will never have any more contact with her.His Mother or not, this Bitch is a waste of Oxygen!!!

In the Asian culture, bad grades deserved punishment. I had spankings, a lot of them; surprisingly it did help improve my grades.

Punishment in the form of killing your pet hamster... That's too far! If the hamster was the cause of his bad grades, ie. being distracted. Then you should prohibit him from playing with it until grades improve, or something along that line, NOT kill it!

Clearly the dirty rotten Mormans are to blame.

what is this world coming to?? This woman is very sick. If she cared at all for this child she would have known he was having trouble in school. As a parent you do homework with your child, meet with teachers etc. She has scarred this boy for life, he will always remember the day he had to kill his hamster. My daughter has three pet hamsters and she always checks them to make sure they are not sick. She loves them so much, she is already worried about the day they die because they have such a Short life span. The reason you get pets foir a child is to teach them compassion and responsibilty, what she did is unforgivable. I hope and pray that she goes to jail for a very long time, and that she never gets near her child again. this child needs love. I am sure that he was being abused by her for awhile, You do not all of a sudden do something so extreme. unfortunately there will be people saying get over it it was just a hamster, they are missing the point, its not about the hamster, its about the damage done to the child. this country needs to punish people like this severely. it makes me sick when i think about how that poor child felt as he was killing his hamster, would love to take a hammer to that monster who claims she is a mother..

Derivative. Monty Python did it first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9nGyPz9uT0

She looks like a nut, she is a nut. Maybe these women should learn to keep their legs closed. That's the problem in our world too much fucking and popping out kids they don't know how to take care of and will never learn to take car of. A license to parent should be a requirement. I am so pissed right now. Someone should use a hammer on her, this piece of shit.

Learn to spell if you want to run a news website.

Get that kid out of that house NOW. He will need help for a lifetime.

How many other cruel things has she done in the past that went untold, unnoticed?

This just leaves me shaking my head with sadness all around. Just another reason in my mind why animals should not be used for entertainment or sold as 'pets'. Get a stuffed animal.

Peace.

HERE IS HER PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS !

Lynn Geter
694 Dunn Rd
Warm Springs, GA 31830
(706) 655-2489
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Obviously you don't know Lynn Geter. She is a good woman and a good parent. She has given a lot to her community and is president of the PTA. If you know Lynn, then you know the child has problems with telling the truth. She took the gerbil (yes, gerbil not hamster) out of the boy's room as punishment for not doing his school homework. The family cat got to the gerbil and killed it. Very unfortunate outcome but no one's fault. Because no one has tried to discover the truth Lynn is in jail. The children were to celebrate their birthdays this weekend. Lynn had ordered three different birthday cakes and planned three different party themes so each child would feel special. Does this sound like a crazy woman? Before you jump to conclusions and write such hateful comments, please discover the real truth.

I know lynn personally and know she would never do something like that. She loves her childern and always does what is right for them. I do believe she might have taken the pet away from the disorderly kid who obviously needs to be punished for not doing his homework even after the teacher talked with both Lynn and the child. Shame on everyone who always thinks the worst of someone even if they don't have all of the details. Think what people would say about you if your 12yr old kid told the same lie on you if he was mad because he was being punished (not killing the family pet) for not doing the right thing at school.

Not atypical of a sociopath...

SHAME ON THE PERSON WHO PUT lYNNS INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE. YOU PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO BUT THINK THE WORST OF PEOPLE AND WRITE MEAN THINGS ABOUT THEM. GET YOUR FACTS BEFORE YOU RUIN A PERSONS REPUTATION.

Cooper, your tarantula was probably just molting, they shed their exoskeletons when they outgrow them, and it typically splits open at the tip of the abdomen.

Dear Jennifer and Concerned Citizen;

Soooo, the police made this up ? Social Services just 'had it out' for this woman? Or is it, "it's just a hamster'?

You're two major reasons that people get away with these types behaviors - she's made brownies and contributed her tithes....oh, what you DON'T see that goes on behind closed doors. I do feel for her - because I wonder if this was a learned behavior? Was she tormented, tortured, abused as a child? Well, get her help - and keep the children and animals - and people, out of her way until she is mentall healthy. Meantime, don't white-wash her behavior, start a college fund for her child (children) or do something positive, don't just stand there and keep her blameless - and mentally ill while her son is scarred for life. Go see 'The Green Mile', while you're at it.

Peace

Well good for her!

It's a treat to see someone take a creative stance towards their child's development. The child is going to experience the loss that comes with failure in a painful way. People like this woman are vilified but she loves her son and only wants him to learn an important lesson.

I have known Lynn all of her life. No she is not perfect but she is a good mother. Many people have called me today because of the bad news reports. Before we talked much, I usually asked them "if I had called yesterday and said we are soliciting nominees for mother of the year, do you know someone you would like to nominate"? Everyone said Lynn Geter. You see, I was talking with people who have known Lynn for years, know what a devoted mother she has been, know how much her children and other children who know her love and respect her. The reporters need a hot story and this is certainly sensational. So much of what is being reported is not factural. Child abuse and animal cruelty get our hearts. But we need to make judgments based on facts not reporters dramatizing "news". The animal involved was a gerbil, not a hamster as reported. The 13 year old, soon to be 14 years not 12 years old as reported, did not bring home a report card, the teacher called Lynn at work and told her about his poor performance. Lynn has had many conferences and worked diligently over the years with this child's teachers to help him be a good student and a good human being. These are facts: Lynn is a mother who is very much involved with her children. She has helped the 13 year old with homework for years. He has had lots of extra toutoring after school and during the summers. He has even had special toutoring at Sylvan Learning Center in LaGrange. He is a child that has problems telling the truth. Some of us encourage our children not to spend time with him, because he lies so much.
My prayers are with this family. They will need lots of love and support to deal with the trama that has come to them. Being seperated from their mother is so upsetting for them. They do not deserve this. They are such good children, they have not grown up in an unloving home. Many of you reading this can only fanticize about having a loving, devoted mother like these children have.

To the person who listed her info-you are a fucking moron.That is not her address it is mine.If you are going to try to be smart,get better at it.And Connie,To answer your question,she grew up in a christian home with 2 wonderful parents that have been married for 40 plus years.How many of you people running your goober smoochers can say that.Most of you probably dont even know both your parents.As to what happened,me nor any of you posting comments were there.And as far as the north south comments,I would rather have a sister in a whore house than a brother that knew someone from the north.

To Lynn's so called friends .... with friends like you, who needs enemies? How sad to defend her. If you have kids, I hope they won't ask to bring any animals home.

i know its not the same situation.

when i was younger i was FORCED to kill chickens and pigs. yes we ate them or sold them at a butcher shop.

would that not be cruelty too? but wait it gets better!

i am grown up now and gee i have NO tendencies to kill/murder.

i am not defending the woman as it was a pet and not for food. but the point was made.

if she were to have slapped her child it would have been assault and battery. if she grounded him it probably wouldhave been cruel and unusual punishment.

no one disciplines there children anymore. your all lazy parents that should rot in hell.

and its BS if you say you dont have time. dont expect time to come to yo. you need to make time.

Hey Jennifer ... she didn't need help in ruining her reputation...she did it all on her own !! Poor boy, I hope he won't be scarred for life but unfortunately that will probably be the case.

An eye for an eye. Her punishment should be for someone to bludgeon her to death, but use a sledge hammer on her head. That's what that white trash deserves. That poor hamster. And not to mention the nightmares that this child will have for the rest of his life.

Regardless of whether the child is telling the truth or not, I'm just happy that the teacher and police listened and took it seriously. Much too often children's cries for help go unnoticed or brushed aside. A mother wrongfully spending a few nights in jail is far less damaging than a child being left in a truly terrible situation because nobody will believe them.

Oh James nice to talk to you, I reckin' your sister sure is a fine girl. I would rather see her in a whore house too, oh wait I did in fact and the price was right... THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN!!!

To Allie:

Really? Where I live, people freak out and act promptly when someone else's child comes to them for serious help. It is excellent when help is truly needed, but it's agonizing for the rest of the family when the child is lying because the authorities tend to trust the child over the adults.

While a mother wrongfully spending a few nights in jail may be better than a child not receiving help that he desperately needs, such a scenario is not as insignificant as some people may think. It teaches the kid that yes, he can lie to get what he wants...lie in a way that seriously hurts other people, including those who love him.

While I do not know this woman personally, I know other families both with malicious lying children and with abusive parents. Even when they got help, things did not go smoothly. Recovery always seemed to be a long, bumpy road where there is no guarantee that you'll ever reach the end. It's a horrible situation either way, and I wish the best for the victims, whoever they may be.

Why oh why do these people always breed? Because it is one of the few things that anyone can do. You don't have to be intelligent, or able to parent. All you have to do is find someone as dumb as you to impregnate you. Then the child pays. And after all this, I bet she not only gets her son back, but she will make him pay for telling on her.

In an over populated, starving world, in a world of fast dwindling resources, it would not hurt in the least for someone to just say no. Especially someone like her. But then again she might not be smart enough to say no, no children.

How is that fair?
Grounding doesn't work but you don't have to be that
drastic about "punishment?"

I remember getting grounded for bad grades. But a mother making her son kill his hamster over bad grades come on was she even concerned how bad that would tramatize her child. Did she think by making him do something that mean to his pet would make him better at school. Poor child Ill pray that his mother gets the help she needs.

Amazing.

I thought the corporate press were as bad as could be regarding prejudice. The author states these assertions, brought by a single child, as facts.

With armies of unqualified, untrained, unaccountable "journalists" like this author blogging us to the bottom, why bother with courts?

I wish this author the privilege of being charged with a crime, preferably groundlessly, so he may come to understand the evils of prejudice. Prejudice means pre-judging.

This is exactly the sort of unethical writing that costs bloggers collectively, their reputation as journalists.

Is a blogger a journalist? Many ask this question. the answer is "Yes, but most of them don't know what they are doing."

Pete Kotz, please make the effort to learn some journalistic standards. If you were wrong in this statement (i.e. she's acquitted) the ALLEGED criminal here could sue you for defamation, and rightly so.

Journalism means stating FACTS. Unless you were a witness to the alleged crime(s,) you must state the fact that this crime is alleged, not committed.

Sincerely,

Freeman Z,

Freeman's an animal lover and ironically falsely convicted (wiretap ...meaning in crazy Massachusetts interviewing a cop in public!) journalist who knows the sting of presumption of guilt. (but I did get the pig's job! ...Oops, i didn't mean to degrade my porcine brothers and sisters whom i enjoy scratching with a rake on occasion.

Get off you high horse Freeman Z. Are you trying to impress yourself? Or are you just an douchebag??

Tell her what you think of her:
Lynn Geter
694 Dunn Rd
Warm Springs, GA 31830
(706) 655-2489

Maybe the hamster should have helped him with his homework.

Mr.Freeman Z, Pete Kotz,does not care for me or my friends. We were doing a little studing on this website. To make a long story short, we used the same computer but different users names and we were very rude. At the end of our study(Kotz named us)we did explain. Back to my question, what about freedom of the press? Does that not apply on a blog? Kotz did not print Committed? I am curious as to how this works. Does this apply to the user on a blog-site? If the user accuses another user of doing something, anything or calling them names is there rules against that?

OH Come On! Are you going to believe everything you read? Do you actually know this woman? Even if she did, which I am no one to judge..Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone

Angie, I know I can't be that young. My parents isolated me a lot growing up. I'm 22 years old and I am attending UCD, but I have no idea what you are talking about? Help me out Please.

This is one sick bitch. She's going to burn in hell when her son kills her with a hammer. I love hamsters and raised/rescued 7 in six years. They are INNOCENT, ADORABLE, BEAUTIFUL, HELPLESS, DEFENSELESS, AND SWEET creatures created by GOD. We should protect them because they give us such joy and happiness. However, hamsters and other small animals should not be sold in pet stores anymore because there are alot of crazies such as psycho bitch who will continue to torture and kill them. PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE YOU CRAZY EFF'D UP BITCH!!! EAT SH*T AND DIE!!!!

I think the mom should be kiled with a hamster.

I don't know if pictures can really tell you anything but with her actions added, does anyone else think she looks completely insane? I wonder what other terrible things she's done to her poor kids. That's a heart-wrenching traumatizing thing to make the kid kill the hamster himself, now he will blame himself. Very, very sick.

freeman, if you were any kind of journalist, you might realize that this site consists of stories with facts as well as editorial commentary and reader commentary. the facts that were reported are carried by a.p. and the like. the rest is journalistic commentary. the only facts given were the report card had bad grades, the mother chose to punish the child, it ended with the hamster being killed with a hammer and the mother in jail on charges that were publically stated.

it appears maybe you found yourself some trouble writing for a newspaper, who is supposed to have the facts...and only the facts. it's totally two different things. you should knock that chip off your shoulder, life will be greatly enriched for you when you do.

Robert E Lee,you probobly did see sis.She said you stopped by all the time to see your mom.She said she was going broke cause your mom kept playing lets make a deal.

I think this is even worse than being molested.

I just read some comments above after I posted that, and there are people saying this kid was a compulsive liar. But on other articles it said Lynn Geter already had a criminal record but didn't say what, and I know that you can end up in jail for things that your minor kid did (I know someone who did b/c their kid failed to appear.) So now I don't know what to think about this.

Traumatize your child? At least she didn't beat the kid like our parents did to us back in the day. It was a freaking hamster. A thoughtless creature with no feelings. The kid should have learned his lesson and maybe he'd get a new hamster if his grades didn't suck.

Freaking chickensh*t kids nowadays.

Sounds like this chick needs a bikini wax with a blow torch

I agree that reports like this should not be taken lightly and the FACTS

I agree that reports like this should NOT be taken lightly and the FACTS need to be found out...BUT I know Lynn and have worked with this kid (in a classroom atmosphere as a teacher) and I doubt HIGHLY that the alligations are true. This kid had major issues, I saw her as a loving and patient mom who struggled and worried over his behavior alot. In knowing the kid too, I felt sorry for the parents and thanked God I had normal kids. All these posts are rash and judgemental and very harsh and I can't imagine the horror this family is facing because of that boy's problems. My first instinct after hearing this was "Bull crap, Lynn probably sent him to his room to keep from WANTING to ring his neck and when he got in there he took it out on the hamster himself and went to school blaming mom out of his ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES and was upset that his hamster was dead at his OWN hands and was too ahamed to admit it." thats just my first thoughts...The truth will come out but until then...INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. my prayer are with you Lynn and Bradd

That makes sense Jimmy, Mama is a hard workin' Southern woman, just like your dear sister.

Killing a pet over bad grades is a little drastic dont we think? If its true thats just crazy and thank god shes in jail. WTF! Lock him in his room and take away all of the modern conviences and I mean EVERYTHING. Leave him with only his school books, and until he can bring home signed forms from his teachers saying he brought his grades up dont give them back! Its hell for a child, but its better than killing their pet.

Somebody who knows the family- if what you are saying is true and I were that lady, I would kick your ass for talking that way about my son. Great friend you are.

What a beast. What "mother" would force her son to destroy a beloved pet? or any living creature? I pity and grieve for her children. Someone send her to therapy immediately. There are far deeper issues - this was just the tip of the iceberg and one symptom of a disturbed mind. God bless those poor children.

Do you ever get the feeling that no one is ever guilty of anything anymore?

hey you crazy animal activists, i don't give a damn about the hamster, i care about what that kid must be going through.

Friend who knows the family,
Is this kid being given a lot of psych meds? That might explain the lying and the behavior. I know 2 intellectually disabled folks who take numerous psych meds (anti-depressants and ritilin) and they have tremendous lying and social problems as a result.

i dont believe this i have known her all my life and she woud never do or say anything like that and her son is 13 not 12 so them news people need to get their facts straight before they go reporting them so this could all be a lie for all these news people know

I would hope that PETA gets involved with this one...
I hope that they throw the book at her...this is unforgivable...I pray for this poor child..may she rot in hell for eternity....

Hey Wow: Many of us are capable of being pissed off at the mother, sad for the innocent hamster and sad for the kid. Yessir...all at the same time ! Animal activists are capable of being concerned for the abused animal and the abused human being (whether mental and/or physical) if that applies.

Why didn't the kid kill his mom instead of the hamster?

I hope that whoever is responsible for punishment of this woman realizes the seriousness of this and what a complete psycho she is. I hope that it's not just some slap on the wrist and then okay, now go home and take care of your kids. This person has some serious mental issues. She needs to NEVER have her children back with her again. How could they ever trust her again, both officials and the children. These children will live in constant fear if they're forced to be around this crazy person again. Next time if he refuses, she may decide to use the hammer on him.

Yep, she is the poster child for people who shouldn't be allowed to breed.

To the ignorant person who has made himself "liable" for posting personal information (address & phone#): I could only hope your stupidy and severe lack of any intelligence what so ever doesn't affect this family in any way. Your best bet is to find a way to have it removed. I'm sure any event that would occur would also name "YOU" as one of the responsible parties. HOW DUMB CAN THEY GET!!!!!!!!!!!!

PETA? Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Rot in hell for eternity? Jesus fucking Christ, I ran over a squirrel once because I was going to fast to stop, what do I deserve? 1-5 years?

Rocki -- Once again you completely miss the point. Did you purposely run over the squirrel? Did you force one of your kids to violently beat it to death, scarring them for life? An accident is one thing. This woman forced her son to KILL something he loved. If you don't understand why that's wrong, then there's no helping you.

mcr,
I haven't missed any points and I don't want any help to see everything retribution-style. No thanks.

Rocki -- How do you not fall down more? I'm guessing you don't have many friends or a formal education. Is that why you spend every moment of the day on here? So you can cast judgment on somebody else for a change? It must be hard being you. You DID miss the point. If you don't see the difference between something accidental and something malicious, then you're a (say it with me now!) M-O-R-O-N.

Someone needs to kill her with a hammer.

That's pretty cold-hearted....I hope for the Hamster's sake, that the kid was a good aim, so at least he died quickly.

I hope that little boy has some decent family that will step in and take custody of him so he never has to live with his monstor of a mother ever ever again. I pray that a wonderful family can take him and nurture him and give him the love he needs. There is no telling how much torture that boy has endured before this came out in the open. He most likely has years of abuse at her hands. The best thing that could happen is that he finds a whole new family!

Ok, so she was arrested, and alllllll these reasons to arrest her are false? Age of Child????, um,Gerbil, if it was SIMPLY removed from his care for bad grades, couldnt she have told the Police,..LOOK he/she Gerbil is fine?

They have to have school records, social security of this child to know his age, and I would believe also, considering the charges, they had a smashed Hamster, not a displaced Gerbil, to be able to follow thru with State charges.

Truly, picture it,..Police arrive,..Ma'am, did you force your child to,.."No,..here is the animal, I just took him away for bad grades" Easy peasy if thats all that happened,..Ma'am,..how old is your OWN son,..(remit correct age here)

I will eat my hat if this many people in law enforcement, and the school dropped the ball, and they arrested,..ARRESTED, BOOKED based on,..oh I dont know,..ummm, EVIDENCE, and she didnt do this.

Many children whom compulsively lie, live in a fantasy land, are on meds,do badly in school, etc, have, as this so called "friend of family" put it, Anger issues, are products of unstable environments,..NOT products of PTA cookie making, well adjusted Soccor Moms.

I this this piece of shit did this, I think the childs eractic behaviors, IE: Lies, Anger Grades, are due to neglect, and abuse, and I believe that if there wasnt solid evidence to the contrary, SHE WOULD NOT BE IN JAIL FACING MULTIPLE

You cant just arrest on the word of a 12 yr old, and come up with 3 things to charge with, and still hold this vile bitch, if there is NO evidence.

She did it, and her dirtbag, inbred "friends" are canonizing her as this Pic Perf Mom

Get this boy away from her

I think there should be an Animal Abuser registry like Molesters.
I dont want anyone living near me and my pets whom have advocated, or participated in animal abuse

I know this woman and the ENTIRE family personally. Her older 2 kids are in foster care and the younger 2 are with her husband (who was at work when the incident happened). She is in prison, but the father wants his babies back. What she did is wrong, yes....she is going to be punished....but why should their father be punished, too? Prayers are desperately needed for the family at this time, people!!!

Someone needs to teach this bitch as lesson and give her the chair.... Killing an innocent animal... Whats next??? Making him kill a family member?

And yes...she did do it. Her son...is like any normal rebelling troubled teenager. They all go through phases...but she just snapped and he did have "Finger Bruises" on of his neck. She does have a prior record for being STUPID, but truth be told....otherwise....she was a great Mother to her children IN PUBLIC! Only her husband and children know what she was really like behind closed doors.....

hey there "concerned friend" I was an abused child, and I told everyone and my mother told everyone what a liar I was!! I was not lying!!! Those things that my mother did to me were true!!! I WAS so messed up in the head! YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS!!! DO NOT BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE THE POOR KID!! CHECK YOURSELF!!!!

What the hell would posses a mother to do that to a child and it makes it worst that its hers. The crazy lady needws to fry for what she has done,and never be able to see that child again!

This woman should also be killed by her son hammering her on the head...

HOW EVIL!?

What if the kid lied about it all?

Only in America!

These comments made me laugh, you aren;t permitted to write this sort of thing in public in the Uk. For all those who claim her innocence, did they guy who wrote a 'child called it', not have a mother who painted a picture of domestic bliss at times? This woman was tried and found guilty of animal cruelty in a court of law, thats good enough for me. Please keep the comments coming, they really are keeping me entertained....

Hey Chantal, how can you laugh? Did you not read the story?

what the hell is wrong with this mother she needs to be beaten to death with a freaking hammer lets see how she likes it.

i am the same exact age as that kid if she was my mother she wouldn't be alive right now and i would make sure of it myself.....

what a bitch

Hey ppl why don't we all wait til the jury is back? I hope that this is NOT a true story , but having said that IF the boy is lying this may be the catalyst needed to get this family the help they so badly need.... It is obvious that one of these ppl needs HELP! Someone is NOT telling the truth BUT who? I wasn't there. Were any of you? Let the facts bare the truth.... And justice be served...

i wonder how big the hammer was.... probably wasn't as big as her insanity

if my mother would have made me do that i would have turned the hammer on her

I wish people wouldn't jump to conclusions about anything like this. I personally know Lynn & have for about 12 years. She is a very good mother. She is president of her younger children's school. She supports all functions at her daughter's high school. Her son's middle school too is high on her list. She is active in her church, always handling showers, anything going on at church. Hopefully, more of the people she helped in the past by baby sitting, (often w/out pay) will come forward to help save her!!!!!!!!!!!

Please don't believe all you read. For starters, his age is wrong. and how do you know what has taken place prior to this incident? Maybe this mother was at her wits end...maybe she has tried private schools, private tutoring...and had him tested. This is not just the first bad grade this child has had??? And how do you know that what she is on probation for has anything to do with her children? "Judge not lest ye be judged". Do you think she was trying to figure out a way to get this child's attention? Although I do not agree with the method at all, I somewhat understand why she was trying to get the one thing out of the way that he had his mind on other than his school work. Sure, there were other ways to take away the pet. Maybe she has taken away everything else, and this was the last thing. There has been no trial yet. No one is perfect. There has never been a single mark on ANY of her children prior to this.

Whomever was the idiot that posted her address on here, has the wrong one. See, you cannot believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see. The story that has been put out in the papers is only one sided, so be careful what you write about folks.

For all the comments concerning her mug shot..what do you people expect? A Glamour Shot? A photo from Olan Mills? What would YOUR mug shot look like? Did you expect her to be smiling? Her mug shot looks like any of them I have ever seen...she looks grim...wouldn't you in her place?

Immediately I saw that woman's face I was reminded of photos of the female ( used loosely ) guards at Belsen and other concentration camps.

The cold staring eyes of madness.

It's only a hamster.

compared to her she makes Michael myers look like the farthest thing from a serial killer

How many bad report cards till he had to beat his mother to death with a hammer.. Thats what needs to happen,.,. EYE FOR AN EYE...

People defending this woman are ludicrous. To give you some perspective: As the physically and sexually abused child of parents with wonderful public images, I know that public appearances hide a lot of truth. By pure luck, genetics, and God's compassion, I ended up being a stellar student (although good grades didn't save me from being severely beat or from witnessing my parents' domestic fights with knives). However, I've had to have extreme psychiatric care, have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome, still have flashbacks and traumatic memories, and am currently seeing a therapist, psychiatrist, attending support groups, etc still 10+ years later. I've also been told that I will need to have therapy for the rest of my life. My childhood experiences have disrupted my previously successful career and my ability to form trusting relationships. My outcome is truly the best prognosis for what I've experienced in childhood. I'm lucky but I've met people with similar pasts who are completely mentally disabled and whose recovery is almost nonexistent.

I also know firsthand that children learn to lie from their surroundings because my mom taught me to lie (mainly to paint a positive public picture). So if this child really is lying, there is a reason and usually that reason is due to trouble at home. Often times also bad grades are a sign of psychological issues due to home life.

People who don't understand the gravity of this story, who are focused on trivial details such as gerbil vs hamster, and who dismiss the story because "it's only a hamster" need to learn compassion. I hope you people go to therapy because attitudes like yours are ruining our (humankind's) present and future.

Anyone with children knows that when a child says "She made me do it" it doesn't necessarily mean what it seems to mean.

It might be wise to suspend judgement until all the facts are known, rather than taking what the child says at face value.

I can't believe how many people keep harping on about the fact that his age is wrong. It's a friggin' one year difference! It's not like they said he's 26 and he's actually 12. Jesus Christ. STUPID.

RA -- I agree with you. I knew kids growing up who were compulsive liars, but they never lied about stuff like this. They lied about stuff no one could look into. Stuff they wouldn't get in trouble for, especially by their parents. Every single time someone gets caught doing ANYTHING, someone who knew them comes forward and says, "I just can't see them doing this. They wouldn't hurt a fly." It's all B.S. A kid wouldn't lie about something that traumatic and send his mom to jail unless he's a total sociopath, and I seriously doubt that's the case.

mcr,
Above when you said I totally missed the point, I certainly did not. I was only replying to a riduculus comment with another ridiculus one. The fact that PETA would get involved in this, is completely ridiculus.

However, your point that a kid would not lie about this, what about the kid (almost same age) that caused his sister's death and never said? Kids don't see things the way adults do (well if you happen to actually grow up) everything is about them-they can't help that. He may not understand the seriousness of the trouble his mother is in. I really don't think he'd have to be a psychopath to lie to get out of something like that. But she is the one in jail, so if he was a real problem kid and they had records from social services/school, etc., I don't think she'd still be in jail, I think they would believe her, but cops aren't rocket scientists either.

what a woman!

My son goes to school with Lynn's son. He says that this boy is a very imaginative young fellow. Apparently the hamster killing was talked about, as someone had read a story like this guess where... ON THE INTERNET... This young fellow was looking to get his mom back im sure, because of her involvement in his school life. How dare a teacher be on speaking terms with your parents?! I do not know this family personally, but the real story, is the cat got a hold of the pet gerbil. Poor thing, and he was mad because if she hadn't had taken the gerbil away, the cat may not have got a hold of it. Or if he had been working harder in school, then his gerbil may never had been taken away.

Just remember there are two sides to every story. Think, if this story were true (the cat got the gerbil), the pain the son, mom and rest of the family is having to go thru. When CPS gets involved they investigate every aspect of your life. Not because they want to put you through hell, but because its their job. Not only was this poor women arrested and taken away from her family, but the son probably has immense guilt for telling a story. The other childrens lives are shaken and her husband is probably in awe of what to do!? Especially if he is the step father.

Warmest well wishes go out to this family in their time of need.

I do not know this family but my prayers go out to all only god knows and the mother and child what really happened may the truth come out for all.may god be with the families that are involved.

It is my opinion and experience from working with troubled children, that this story is far from accurate. However, there is definite dysfunction in this family stemming way back. I had the pleasure of riding the bus with Lynn and her sister,Lisa, and also going to church with her and her family. Talk about a pristine image. It was definitely there. Unfortunately,I will remember her and her sister for a very long time. They were extremely mean people that I allowed to keep me from attending Mt. Hope Baptist Church. Yes, no one can make you do anything. We all have choices, but their cruelty was there even 25 years ago. I pray that this story is not true. There are too many abused children and dsyfunctional families in this world.

Why would someone do such a cruel thing to an innocent creature? To punish their child for getting bad grades? That is wrong. Instead, she should have talked to her son's teachers and gotten him a tutor, to help him with his school work. Also be encouraging to him. That is what my parents did.

Rocki -- First off, I said "sociopath," which is completely different from a psychopath. How do YOU know what kids are all about? I grew up in an abusive home and was afraid to call social services because regardless of how much abuse I went through, I still didn't want to be taken away from my family. That's how it works with kids. Their family is all they know. You think he enjoys staying in foster care while this is going on? That's pure HELL for a kid. If he had lied about it initially, you can bet your ass he'd step up and tell the truth after a couple of nights out of his comfort zone.

Also, I read on the local Atlanta new station's website that she only remains in jail because she violated some kind of probation. Obviously, she has a history, too.

And for the love of GOD learn how to spell "ridiculous." That can be your word of the day. Write it down on a piece of paper 100 times until you get it right.

Thank you for the spelling and definition lesson. You seem to think you are an authority on everything, but more likely, mostly on spelling, AARP, and dentures.

I find it strange that you think (from being abused yourself) that he would own up to it, even fearing the consequences. I have a lot of experience with kids, I have one of my own and am the oldest of six. Now, I can't speak to your situation, b/c we were never abused (at least phsyically, except at the hands of each other) but kids will lie to get out of the consequences, my brothers once threw each other threw a picture window while my mother was in the room and then they said they didn't do it, my sister threw herself down the stairs numerous times and told my mother she was pushed by someone. I have kids in my neighborhood that stand on my porch with my kid and tell me that their parents left them alone (I know this is not true) with the express intention of getting into my house for some type of candy or cookie.

For the person who put her personal number and home address is wrong for doing that.You are attacking other members of the family including the other children they did nothing wrong and to cause more trouble is wrong of you.
We all need to remember that there is one judge and that is GOD and he knows the truth and whatever happened that person will have to answer for it.We should be praying for this family instead of causing more trouble and turmoil to this family.

I never said kids don't lie, but this is to an extreme. How can you compare a lie that took this kid out of his home, away from his family and put his mother in jail to the lie of a child attempting to get candy? None of your comparisons make any sense. This seems to be an ongoing problem with you.

And seriously, I'm in my mid-twenties. You don't have to be retired to have an education and know how to spell. Really, if you're a bad speller, whatever...I'm bad at math. However, it's really hard to take someone seriously when they can't spell. It's the way we communicate. You'll likely never use Calculus, but effective writing skills or lack thereof gives people an impression, whether it be good or bad.

mcr,
I really don't see the same thing you see on this. If he is being abused, I think he'd be more scared to go back home and he's probably getting a lot of positive attention now. I wouldn't underestimate that as one of the most powerful motivators of behavior. They are related in that he is old enough to have developed a solid relationship with certain of his behaviors. What if the kid lying for treats, repeatedly gets treats out of me and goes home and gets slapped when she tells the truth? No one person will know what's going on but this could make a distinct impression on this kid. That's how little negative behaviors grow into something outrageous like this. Let's put it into a more severe situation where the kid is being abused. Now, I am not so inconsiderate that I would routinely feed other people's children (they may have allergies and it's rude of me) but some people are much more oblivious than

that.

I just have a question for this womans "friends". If she is such a good person, why is she in jail for a probabtion violation? I'm not sayin that good people don't do bad things. But if she was such the wonderful mom your all sayin she is, why does she have a record? To me, a "mom of the year" type mom wouldn't have such a record. She would be at home baking cookies, not out gettin a rap sheet!

Maybe the boy lied. Maybe he has some issues. But from the sounds of it, it must run in the family.

Yes Marie Heck,
I agree. This was probably the icing on the cake and Child services probably figured they had had enough of these people. I don't think she sits in jail b/c of a judgement. It's something else. And it's not good or she'd be out on bail by now.

LOL...sucks

rocki - I can understand why you are quick to judge the child as a liar, due to your childhood experiences. However, the other possibility that the child is telling the truth is just as and even more probable. In your examples, your siblings' motivation for lying is to avoid punishment by your parents. I can tell you that lying behavior was uncommon amongst my 13 cousins while we were growing up, and only occurred to avoid severe beatings or to pretend that things were better than truly were.

For this boy, how would avoiding punishment be his motivation to lie about his mother forcing him to kill a hamster? Why would he be punished for his mother's instructions or demands? If the boy is lying, what is his motivation? To accuse a mother of something horrific would probably indicate contempt or hatred for the mother. Why would a child hate his mother? There are many possible reasons (physical abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, etc.)--none of which correspond to this lady being in any way a good mother.

PTA presidency doesn't indicate a good mother. A good PTA president is one who devotes her time and energy towards PTA events; it doesn't really indicate anything about how the mom parents at home, in private. And a church-goer does not a saint make, as proved by my church-community-revered sexually abusive uncle. Initially, the only person I ever told was my mom who immediately dismissed the idea and called me a liar, without even checking into the possibility. Moms don't always have their children's best interest at heart.

Lynn Geter, an obviously ineffective mother (her child's bad grades alone can suggest that if her efforts didn't result in improving the grades; speculated abuse, etc would only further strengthen this argument), needs professional parenting support and psychological help in the form of parenting skill classes, therapy, psychiatry, etc. If she refuses to get that help, her refusal suggests she does not take parenting seriously and is not open to the idea that she needs to adjust her methods even if she is not physically abusive. Parental behavior is sometimes bizarre and not what we would expect from parents. To this day, my mom never admits that I witnessed abuse or that I grew up abused even though I'm currently on Xanax to deal with traumatic memories. She believes she is a good parent, and her friends / siblings / coworkers would agree because they never knew what happened behind closed doors.

The boy also needs some counseling to start working on what will be a long journey to heal oneself. If he made all of this up, then he has severe mental illness that needs to be professionally addressed. If this is all true, he also needs professional help to prevent significant problems later in life. For example, while I responded to abuse by developing depression and anxiety, my younger sister responded with rage that at age 14 resulted in her beating up a girl at school to the point the girl needed to be hospitalized and with harmful / promiscuous behavior (teenage pregnancy that my parents forced her to abort, alcohol abuse, etc.).

And everyone who is attacking others, it is unnecessary and doesn't convince others to join your cause. Also these stories don't just happen in the south or in poor families. I grew up abused in a domestic abuse household in an affluent California city with a household income of over $200,000. My parents admit that I was an accident; unfortunately, they didn't have good coping skills on dealing with their parental and marital frustrations so they took out their frustrations in very violent ways. This is why people need to be sure they are ready to face high stress and demands (parenting, marriage) before they make the decision and commitment to become parents or get married. The most effective parents are patient and have time to lead by example and teach effective lessons without the quick standby of a rage-motivated beating. I also blame modern society's need for two incomes households for taking parents' time away from parenting, which is the most rewarding full-time job.

We could argue all week about which story we believe but it's probably a little of both. She's probably no good and is raising an equally no good kid with her great parenting skills. No reflection on yourself. I'm sure you realize that boys tend to react differently than girls and people of different intelligence/socioeconomic status are all going to react to bad situations differently. Whichever case, made up or true, both would point to a very serious family dysfunction. I don't think my daughter would lie and then see me taken away and keep lying no matter how "mean" she thinks I am for my rules

this is the america everybody love's.same ol dance.she will get her kids back. this is america you can do whatever you like.kill people'rape someone'take a child or 2.but for heaven sakes dont get caught with a joint you will get life.i know a girl whos mom sold her and her brother for sex at the age of 5 and 6.well there both in jail for murder wheres the mom at her home of course.police never did nothingabout it.america home of the insane.this lady is probley at home already and beating her kid for telling but o well we let it happen.

I don't know lynn very well, but I have grown up with her oldest daughter, who is now in my senior class. Lynn has always been very sweet and talkative and friendly to me whenever I see her, and I've never known her to be cold to anyone, though I know social appearances can be decieving. Her daughter is an absolute angel who would never hurt anyone, and is very genuine. I feel sorry for her for having to go through this.

Seriously, all of this is pointless. Think about if the kid stumbles upon this website. Do you really think that he would want to see all these awful things said about his mother? Yes, I agree, what that mother did was wrong, but continuing to say crude and horrid things about her serves absolutely NO purpose. She messed up and now is in jail. Must we all act better than her? We've all made mistakes and I'll be the first one to admit it, but ours aren't made public and are probably not as severe as this one, but still. We all make mistakes and we all learn from them. Can you not just leave it alone? The kid needs support through this hard time, not to see people saying "nuke the south" and "she's fucked up in the head". Give it a break. The child needs support and you (the people) could at least give him that.

Okay so i noticed pple are saying that the boy is making up the whole damn thing! What the hell is wrong with you guys!? Kids dont do that, the mom is a psycho bitch that needs to burn in hell! And i love animals and all but you should be more worried about the boy...he is most likely going to have a shitty life cause of that bitch! I hope that she burns in hell for that...better yet i hope the hamster can chase her with a damn hammer 24/7!

In any case, if the boy is telling the truth, he will need professional counseling so he understands that his mother's instructions for him to kill his hamster were totally inappropriate. If the boy is not telling the truth, and he came up with the story on his own and carried it out, then HE will definitely need counseling as a potential killer.
And for the mother, she should not have custody of her son. Her reasoning is insensitive. Perhaps she is sociopathic, she obviously has little to no regard for others. How would you feel if your mom made you do something horrific as this... wouldn't you wonder what kinda of punishment she'll come up with NEXT? Nobody wins with is one. Bad call, mom!

I totally support what the mom did. Drastic measures should be taken to improve children's education. So what, a hamster died. Bohoooo, there's plenty where that came from!

I actually live in Georgia... and I can tell you this is NOT how all Mom's down here punish their children. Most of the time it's being grounded and, on extreme occassions, getting hit with a hickory switch!

Like I mentioned before...I know the family PERSONALLY. You don't cut down the entire orchard due to one bad apple. The family isn't to blame and the children shouldn't be taken away from the family. Their mother is going to jail. She won't be around them while she's there!!! I've heard many stories about Lynn's past (her previous record is from embezzeling money from her previous job at the Roosevelt Institute for Rehabilitation) and know what kind of a person she's portrayed herself to be to others. You can never truly know a person just by what you see on the outside...

This is insane, it's like a parent not obeying the law and having to kill their child, does THAT make sense?!?!?!

This is absolutly unbelievable! Regardless if she did or didn't make her son kill the hampster with a hammer. She still needs to take parenting classeson the do's and don'ts of parenting! If I were her I would take a hammer to her face and see how she likes beating her kids. Its one thing to spank a child its another to leave scratches and bruises!!! Some people don't deserve the opportunity to have children! When good people can't! OH the nerve!!!!

This reminds me of the old folk song:

If I had a hamster
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over his assssssss...

Wonder what happens if he gets a girl pregnant. Does she go here's the coat hanger.

So.. she's a great mom and a PTA president, but she doesn't have a CLUE as to how her son is doing at school?

Dpesn't make sense to ME.

And, what does having a pet have to do with bad grades? Did the hamster make him flunk his math test?

How about having a conference with the teacher to get him on the right path, and grounding him? Helping him with his homework? Getting him a tutor? Keeping in touch with his teacher, so there are no more surprises?

Sounds like the public persona might not match what is going on in the family behind closed doors.

If this woman REALLY forced him to kill a beloved pet, she's a monster. And. it is likely that he will hate her.

i have no clue what really happened so i dont know what to believe, but i am NOT going to believe that the boy made the whole thing up! And i hope the boy will never have to see his mother again. Yes children should be with their parents but not if their parents make them do something so wrong!

Any human who can abuse an animal, or kill it for no reason (meaning she wasn't killing it for purpose of food) and then take it a step further by having it killed in a vicious senseless way by FORCING her own child to commit the act is so disturbing she clearly is not mentally stable.

People who abuse animals often abuse children.

As for people who are writing in to make claims about how wonderful this mother is because she holds a title and attends church is more insane than the story. Maybe she has snapped being an over-achiever in life looking to have her children be carbon copies of her own "self-less" life.

LOTS of people WEAR their masks in society VERY WELL yet they are very different people at home.

It is disturbing to see grades are more important to ANY parent than truly knowing your child.

But then again this mother has her "perfect" life to show off in society that so many foolishly write about it would make sense this mother wants it to be perfect down to the very last detail of having perfect grades from her child.

Maybe if this mother wasn't so distracted in her perfection and showing off all her "community service" she would have found more constructive ways to discover WHY her son isn't performing up to her standards in school.

To make claims this women is such a saint is absurd she wouldn't have EVER gone to jail or be sitting in jail a week later if her son supposedly lied about the incident

oh come on!!! thats just effed up!! that kid is going to have serious emotional problems as he gets older. this woman doesnt even deserve to be called a mother b/c REAL parents dont do crap like this! karma's coming for her FAST!! they should put her in a room w/ hundreds of hungry pissed off hampsters..

Sorry to say but just cause this woman is a church goer that dont mean she is a good person. I dont know who would make a 12 year old boy kill a hamster,especially one that he cares about! That is not right at all, she has some serious issues!

@Dylan Ram-Brick

Well done, sir.

People, have you lost your mind....This was a hamster, a rodent, a rat.......they normally don't live a year anyway..... How can we judge what this mother has gone through trying to get this kid to do his school work.... I hope she sues this town for every penny they have and the sheriff loses his job....

To Denise who knows this lady. Despite your recommendation Denise, there is something going on here that you did not previously discern. People often look good to outsiders... my neighbor is one. The boy lying was only a red flag.

Anyone who could make her child kill his own pet with a hammer (for WHATEVER reason), has something major going on mentally, and it's not good.

I hope this family gets the help it needs.

I hope this vile woman is steralised so she cannot have any more children. I hope that the child who was forced into that nightmaare will be loved and cared for by someone that will want to love him properly and show him how to be good to animals and pets. She deserves a long prison term.

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Most of these comments have Lynn tried, convicted and sentenced before they even see any evidence. I know Lynn and her entire family personally. They are simple, honest and caring people....all of them. Lynn is the most dedicated mother I've ever seen and unless EVIDENCE can show me differently I will continue to believe that. So she has a probation violation. If you don't know what it's for don't speculate. I do and it has nothing to do with this. I'm sure none of you ever made a mistake in your life and had to pay for it. As for what child services can do in the state of GA, they can do anything they please. I have seen families suffer becuase of that. If you call and report you saw your neighbor hit their child (whether it is true or not) they will have that person leave the home immediately. If it was a false charge, too bad, that person has to prove their innocense thru countless therapy sessions, monitored visitations., etc. I believe we need the system, don't get me wrong, because there are people that abuse their children. I just don't think there are enough resources to allow them to do their job in as much depth as it should be. Please don't judge lest you be judged.

Sandy, obviously you aren't aware that this is a site that allows opinions and none of us ever claimed to be a judge or a jury. That being said, if the person above is correct, then she stole some money from one of her prior employers and that is why she is in jail now. You're right, that has nothing to do with the current issue of the pet and a hammer and bad grades. However, just because you "know" someone or know how they act in public doesn't mean that you know how they are behind closed doors. Just be careful in who you trust. Naivety can turn around and bite you in the butt, but then again, isn't ignorance just bliss?

I understand that this site allows opinions, that is why I stated mine. You do not claim to be judge or jury but alot of the comments have her being killed with a hammer and such.....I know of her past conviction and all the details. Google it if you want, it was many years ago and she has been paying for it. I know them not just in public but in private. I have been to their home, spent time with them and saw how they worked hard with this child for the last 10 years to help him. He is loved unconditionally by his family. I am not naive, nor am I ignorant. The only thing biting me in the butt is that conclusions are jumped to without facts and families and lives can be destroyed simply by that. Tell me, if this turns out that the child lied, Lynn is innocent and all charges are dropped, how many people will post how happy they are that everything worked out OK?????

Ok that was sick it will fuck up his mind i come from a demented family so i would know, poor kid.

I dont know this child or his mother but i dont understand how some people think this boy made the story up! Even if he did then his mother must of been horrible to him. In any case i think she should never see her son again or any of her other children as well!!!

I wonder why LE is being so secretive about what this woman is on parole for. Most "great Moms" and PTA Presidents, etc. are not on parole, are they? Apparently that doesn't concern the "friends" in this community any more than what this young boy's problems may be.

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Sandy, I can assure you that any normal person would be happy to hear that this was all just one big mess of confusion. Mainly because we know how detrimental it would be to a kid to have to hammer their beloved pet to death. Also, because of what else the kid must have gone through for things to get to this point. You're very wrong. I do pray that this isn't true. I pray that the family can overcome it. However, my gut tells me that her friends are in denial.

to the friends of the family. you don't ever really know another person and what they do behind closed doors. don't you think friends and family of convicted murderers and child rapists and whatnot are always surprised when someone they love is arrested?

there had to be some kind of facts that came out in order to arrest this woman. she can't be totally innocent of the charges brought upon her. therein lies some form of truth even if convoluted.

i'm sorry that the child seems so "disturbed" for the last 10 years and that he tells lies, etc. perhaps his disturbed nature comes from the nurturing or lack thereof that the mother has provided.

pull your heads out of the sand, it doesn't look good on you!

Seadogq: No, rats live about three years. I do not know how long hamsters or gerbils live, but it is much longer than a year.

We also "don't know what this woman had to go through to get her child to do his homework." But we DO know that: 1) The mother did not interest herself enough in her child's academic progress to check with the teacher. Otherwise, she would have discovered that he was failing. She could then have planned with the teacher to help him improve.

If the woman did what she is accused of, she: 1) Forced her child to commit a crime (chargeable animal cruelty), 2) Broke her child's heart by forcing him to kill the thing he loved, 3) May have caused him to feel severe guilt by forcing him to kill his pet, 4) Taught him that violence toward the helpless is a good way to deal with his problems.

And, the bottom line: The hamster did was not at fault for the child's grades. ANY other punishment woudl have been mmore appropriate. Forcing a child to kil that which he loves is spirit-killing.

And, you know.. maybe he's failing school BECAUSE he has a monster Mom. Or, because his homelife is bad.

BTW-- Where's Dad, in all this?

To the folks who know Lynn Geter, I am sorry you are rather caught in the middle of all this, but let me just say a few things. I KNOW these "mother of the year" types. I HAD a "mother of the year" type. Yes, I've been to therapy as a direct result. I've also known other situations where others defended these "wonderful mothers" when accusations were leveled against them. When the dust settled, they were guilty, and the ones who stood up for them were involved in their fall and disgrace because of it. As someone who has seen and lived through too much of this, let me just say be careful what you get yourself into.

Even if her child is lying, what about the underlying cause of the behavior? Often it is because of some form of abuse and they lying is an escape mechanism. Of course we don't know, but you never know what is really happening. When a child is likely to make a mother like that look bad, very often all her friends will hear about the "behavior issues" of said child before things hit the fan. It makes her story more believable. Yep, seen that, too.

I agree with an above poster .... I think some of Lynn's friends and acquaintances are in denial ... I would like to know what the bitch is on parole for.

Never mind, Kristollblue from above says it was from embezzelling money from a previous employer. That just further explains that she is NOT the "mother of the year".

Maybe he made the whole thing up.

I am so sorry that this young man/boy/baby was brought to this action. You can't get to be twelve years old and follow (even) your own mother's instructions of this emotionally painful infliction, unless you've been primed by previous abuse.

Where is the father? Where are the grandparents? Where are the friends? Who has CLOSED THEIR EYES? Where is the church? Where are the police in this neighborhood? This can't be the first time someone became aware of the help needed for this family. Could it?

THIS IS FOR MOM: I feel sorry for you Lynn, even if you have no remorse for sacrificing your son. You most likely have been subjected to abuse of the worst kind yourself, regardless, you are still responsible to keep your children safe, even if it's from yourself Children always have FAITH in their mothers, they believe that Mom is the one person they can trust to look out for their welfare.

I hope you get through this with enough integrity to understand how you got to this place in your own life, so you can honestly accept the love and trust your children want to believe you have for them.

Childen don't understand the meaning of unconditonal love unless you teach them.

First lesson- You don't make them kill the only soft fuzzy they've ever had, even if you don't have one.

HERE'S ANOTHER EXCUSE FOR YOUR SITUATION: (been there) 12 year olds do not like to clean cages. Mothers of 4 children don't like or have time to clean cages. Couldn't you just have given the rodent away? Not likely I agree...but maybe you could have sucked up to the idea that eventually you would be the one to take care of this thing in addition to the rest of your responsibilities....like the other children? No one likes to change diapers after two years, but do you ditch the kid? What happened to BLESSINGS AND PROCREATION? Does that only apply to humans?
Personally I'm prochoice and have always counted my blessings. Forget the perfect, smooth life that you think God promises you when you take the "choice" out of it. You still have to change diapers and walk dogs and clean cages and do laundry, save the planet, recycle, be upset when children don't get good grades, call your mother, pay your bills, get angry when you're overwhemled.....on and on.....

I hope you know that many people are thinking about you and how your children are, especially your son. Personally I wish you hope in your attempts to heal.

This woman is sick and a psycho. Her son should be removed from her indefinitely as she is not fit to be a mother. Teaching herson to kill? Shame on her. She should be locked up from society indefinitely as you she is dangeropus and obviously mentally ill!!

This mother is insane! And to all you people who think the boy made this up, youre almost as insane as the mother! I am so sorry for the boy. I am hoping that the boy will never have to see his mother again! And i have a question for the mothers friends, why do you think the mother isnt guilty!?

Sandy said:

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Most of these comments have Lynn tried, convicted and sentenced before they even see any evidence. I know Lynn and her entire family personally. They are simple, honest and caring people...

Sandy feel free to live in your fairy-tale opinions of "I know her personally" land and everyone is "judging and trying" your "classy friend".

Until you EXPERIENCE a neighbor or friend or even a family member who wears and SELLS their sicky-sweet persona to the world and then you find out they are a monster behind closed doors you should refrain yourself from standing behind her - you may be quiet devastated to find out law-enforcement doesn't jump the gun for a story.

TEACH a child to kill a living thing for no reason and you may find they learn to disconnect from ALL LIFE eventually.

If you personally KNOW her than obviously you are living in your rose-colored shelter. She is not sitting in jail because she is so "nice" and law enforcement and the agency protecting the child are over-reacting.

Sorry to inform you sweety any child making a claim against their parent is INVESTIGATED BEFORE any law-enforcement actions are taken - live in your fantasy land of "personally knowing her" and freely giving your opinion of a person you truly don't know when they are in their own home away from the show they put on in public.

Last time I checked their are lots of community do-good-ers sitting in jail because they stole, battered, or raped. Oh and lets not forget about the many pious religious leaders who have killed and raped and then USE their "clout and title" to HIDE behind their wrongs or point and blame everyone around them.

And a bigger reality check would be the many thousands of children across the US who are regularly abused or neglected by their own parents. These children tell their story and the parents LIE about it and deny it because THEY don't want to go to jail.

Who cares how old this child is - THE CHILD IS A MINOR.

Who cares if it was a snake, rat. Are their different STANDARDS for living creatures or has society sunk to the barbaric ages and next it will be a cat or dog any other LIVING creature SOLD at a pet store.

If the child was spending too much time with another sibling do you kill the other sibling for this one child to have better grades?

The world has gone insane if the new-age discipline is destroying your childs pet OVER a grade in school.

Amazing how double minded society is - sell a rodent in a pet store call it a pet then if your child acts up have the child smash it with a hammer.

And we wonder why we have children in school BEATING other kids without mercy like Lakeland Florida, and why children bring guns to school like Colorado. And why many children LACK basic empathy anymore when they are nothing more than little robots who go to school for good grades.

To RA and Renee:
Thank you for your insightful posts. I appreciate your psychologically mindedness and your grasp of the intricacies of this case. Like yourself, I have also been at the mercy of parents who were like Dr. Jekyll in public and Mr. Hyde in private. I don't know if this woman is guilty, but I do know that Daniel Rader A.K.A. the BTK killer was the president of his church. He was undetected by family, friends and the police for decades, so obviously appearances can be deceiving. I learned of this case while listening to a radio program in which the host of the show stated (assuming all reports are true) that this was neither a case of animal cruelty or child abuse. I found his tone and tenor to be so offensive that I intend to use all my resources to attempt to force this man to apologize or lose his job. I won't rest until something is done. In the meanwhile, I will keep this child in my thoughts and hope that a positive resolution can be reached in the midst of this crisis.

I agree that one does not know what goes on behind closed doors. However, I am shocked by so many writers who are advocating such cruel, violent treatment for Lynn. Lynn is being held in jail, she has not been convicted of anything pertaining to this allogation with the germil and her son.
Lynn's family does not deserve the harsh and cruel recommendations many of you are suggesting. Think what this is doing to them. Because children will be children, there is no way to shelter Lynn's children from hearing from their little friends about what they have seen on television and in the newspapers. Please, put yourself in these innocent children's shoes for a minute.
As I read some of these comments, I find myself wondering how many of these harsh ones are being written by:
(1) fathers who do not pay child support
(2) women who had abortions
(3) a parent who does not help their child w/homework even tho the child is failing in school
(4) a pet owner who keeps the pet enclosed in a small area and skips feeding it on occasion when other things get in the way
(5) someone who has never volunteered to work with a child who needs extra attention
(6) someone who has never had children.
then I remember, it is always easier to cast stones.
I can tell you, I know that Lynn has spent hours and hours working with this child on his homework. The day in question, the teacher called Lynn at work and discussed a bad grade he was getting. I believe when teachers, etc are questioned, many writters who have written such horrible things about Lynn will come to know how wrong they have been. Lynn wasn't a great student, so she understands about not learning everything easily. She and the rest of the family have given this child lots of help with his studies and he has been in after school toutoring and also went to Sylvan Learning Center in LaGrange at one time.
So many harsh criticisms have been written, sometimes without regard to fact. Please, pray for this family.

This woman is the most sadistic, vile, disgusting, inhumane person ever, worse than hitler(i have 2 say) i would never force my child to kill his pet for any bad behavior, i'd support him and get him back on track. Glad this woman is in jail, hope she stays in there 4 life. She should never be allowed animals, or be allowed 2 c her family again. I h8 her and others like her. All my sympathy to the kid

Denise, are you implying that women who have had an abortion or someone that has not yet had a child doesn't understand the importance of NOT killing an animal with a hammer or NOT stealing money from a prior employer? What about the other people that you listed? Are you implying that just because someone hasn't volunteered to help children that they would do something as crazy as these allegations? Just because someone has a child or three does not make them a good parent. Also, just because a child has a history of not doing well in school does not make him a liar or does not prove that he isn't in a bad family situation.

I think what Denise is getting at is we are all not so innocent and not knowing the whole story makes us huge hypocrites to everyone. As you sit there and right these terrible comments just remember there are some things that you have done in your life that people judged you for. You never got to explain and to this day that's the kind of person they think you are....And if you say you haven't had these moments your lying and Obviously it helps you get through your days by judging other people....Who needs help?!?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!!!!!!! GOD HAVE MERCY !!!!!

dude.that is sick.i mean in the bad way.y giv ur son a hamster if ur just gonna kill it???

this woman makes my skin crawl... that poor poor child.

wow. just wow. i have a hamster of my own. i was just in my mom`s bedroom, and my brother walked in. [i was holding my hamster] he just walked in and told me the story. i withered away from my mom, jokingly. at least my mom isnt like that. but you also have to think of it like this. yellow journalism: ya heard of it? its when you lie about or stretch the truth. what if it turned out, now this is just senario, that the kid was grounded, vented his feelings by killing the hamster, and told that story to get a "better" mother?

just sayin

I think it is horrible what the hell did that little hamster ever do to her. It shows you what comes around goes around! I just have to say we are not hypocrites we all have our own opinion and have the right to do so.

This woman should stay in jail! What kind of person would do this to a innocent child!? She dont deserve to see her kids or to have a pet. I highly doubt this boy is making this story up. I am so sorry for the boy :,(

I am from Meriwether county and know this woman and her husband. She acts like a good person (involved in the PTA, involved mother, active in the community, good wife, clean house) but is seriously messed up. She is being held in jail without bond because she was already on probation to begin with. People thought her probation was for passing bad checks, but she was on probation because she stole $35,000 from a local rehab hospital. She was married with a small child in the early 1990s when she started having an affair with a 13 or 14 year old boy (who she is married to now and who is the father of the 12 year old boy and the two younger children). What kills most of us that know the family is that her husband is genuinely nice, hard working, a good provider, and loves his kids to death. She is one crazy bitch. Goes to show that outward appearances are deceiving. Some people have been saying the kid may have lied about the incident because he was mad or wanted attention, but this psycho confessed to the crime after being interviewed by the sherrifs department.

ur a sick woman ur a hobo on the streets i hop to ur house

I hope she stays in jail 4 life!

An eye for an eye!

Psycho mom looks just like the woman in Fatal Attraction.

This woman is very sick. Can you imagine the type of father or friend this child could become? Very, very bad example of how to property train and discipline a child. Psycho Mom is the one who needs punishment; not her child or his beloved pet. As a result of this type of discipline, this poor child could turn out to become a serial killer--very sick, and possibly very dangerous to those who befriend him.

This woman has been in trouble before; so her credibility is suspect. I would therefore believe the child. Also, many people are ignorant; or just plain dumb; and do not care much about animals or the consequences of their actions; and that is a good description of some of this woman's friends. Being a member of the PTA does make one a good person. Indeed, being a community leader is sometimes used as a cover for bad deeds. This woman should have to wear a big H, a scarlet letter for the hamster.

Unless if we were the child, the mother, or the hamster, there's no way we can know for sure. If she is the kind of parent to do that to her children, she should rot in jail and she should be helped.

However.

We are quick to believe whatever we read, and for this situation you can't know for sure. I think we can all agree that child and pet abuse are some of the sickest things known to man, but how this can turn into a north vs. south debate blows my mind. If you think that forcing a child to become a killer for no reason other than to "learn a lesson" is acceptable or right, then you should be helped, too.

After reading some of this story and some of the sick responses that have been included here, all I can hope for is that a race of just, mind-reading, all powerful hamsters come to our planet and judge us, doling out punishment to those deserving it with giant human-skull crushing hammers.

POINT IS.

Killing an any animal, any animal personally makes my skin crawl. I don't like hunting either, hell, I just had to put my cat to sleep (it had FIP, and was suffering)-and it was THE WORST BUT if she made her son kill the hamster, gerbil..whatever.. she's getting her kids taken away. That's emotional/mental abuse. period.

However, if she isn't gulity then somebody needs to get this kid some help...and fast.

I wonder what the other children are saying? Are they saying that it did indeed happen? Are they displaying signs of abuse, or what?

This story needs a JUMP.

Dude...whatever happened to world peace?

jesus christ.

none of us even know her.. so what gives anybody any right to call her a psycho or a bitch or whatever the fuck?

it's not anyone else's business, in case you were wondering.

i mean, she COULD have done this, or she COULD just have a mean streak that came at the heat of the moment, or maaaaybe she didn't do it at all!

you call her a sick bitch like she's a serial killer or something.

shut up about it. god, the people of this day and age so retarded.

Any sick enabler that tries to defend this vile sociopath should have a few "raps" against their cranium. This sort of evil should provide ample evidence that her child would be better off with Chengiz Khan as a parental figure.

One can only hope that one of the less amused prisoners in her current abode decides that she needs a *stop!* hammer-time~ tune-up.

Burnt be her bones, curséd be her blood &swift be her death.

I thought it was funny, i'd never make my kid kill a hamster, but you gotta give the parent an "A" for originality... oh and quite is Q-U-I-T-E, not Q-U-I-T... 3rd paragraph, 5th word in... just saying

Denise and so many others are calling this child a liar and the mother a saint. "He is a child that has problems telling the truth. Some of us encourage our children not to spend time with him, because he lies so much." Maybe they're not lies, maybe its all just falling on deaf ears. Sometimes an abusive parent targets only one child. In the novel, A Child Called It, the mother had four children but only abused the one. If a child has a problem lying and despite numerous attempts to help him with behavioral problems, there may something that is holding him back from reaching the goals set for him. He may go to Sylvan learning center and come home to his mother thrusting a hammer in his hand and forcing him to bludgeon a family pet. Hmmmmm. . . Think about it. And you're all part of the problem because you isolated him by refusing to let him play with your children. To say her other children are angels and this one son is the bad seed in the group and you allow your children to play with her children except the one. I hope they take this child out of your community cause its sounds to me that the abuse is not just in the home but in the homes of neighbors and family friends as well.

Well said Alisia. I never thought of it in a way of community-wide abuse, but you bring up a good point.

We, the Friends of Lynn would like to set the record straight. The key word is STRAIGHT. You people saying all these things about her don't know the REAL Lynn.

First off, she is STRAIGHT! A HETEROSEXUAL woman. You all are crying over some stupid gerble. Well, would you rather the boy be living in a house with gays?

I praise Jesus everyday that the gays can't get married.

I think that those kids that have to live with gays should have them taken away.

Lynn is a gooder parent than any gays.

Friends of Lynn, if you are an example of what the kids are going to grow up to be, then God, I pray that you help us. First off, "gooder" is not a word. Secondly, what does this have to do with people who are not heterosexual? Seriously, if you are going to bring up a point that came from left field, at least try to explain the correlation to the two topics. In all honesty, I'm not sure that I have ever read a story about gay people who forced their child to beat a gerbil (not gerble) or hamster with a hammer. You wanted to set the record "straight" yet you seemed to fail miserably. Thank you. We appreciate your response and all of your supporting documentation that would make us reasonably believe that someone's sexual preference has anything to do with this story. That being said, she may not be gay, but she is a freakin' child molester. What is your take on that? Or is it ok because the kid is older now and doesn't seem too messed up from an adult taking advantage of him?

Forget the damned hamster.

This woman FORCED her son to MURDER. A stupid little rat isn't the issue here, the HUMAN BEING is.

That's what's wrong with this world - all you nitwits that put an animals life above a persons. This kid will be scarred for life now because his mother is a fucking lunatic.

When I saw the picture of this woman my jaw dropped. I've seen her around a lot. She shops at the supermarket I work at. Whenever she's in there, she's just a picture of sweet. Always floating down the aisles chatting with her friends. "See you at Church on Sunday, Lynn?". "Oh of course, don't forget PTA next Tuesday. I'm bringing a cake!" Then when the person's out of ear shot she'd mumble something like "Fat cow, like you need more cake".

One time she came in with a bee up her butt and must have been a hurry because she was all steamed when she got to my check out. She was on the phone yelling at someone, I think it was her old man. She snapped the phone shut and started writing a check and threw it at me and snapped at the bagger and said "I'm in a hurry can you get the lead out?!". Well, I ran her check through the validator and it rejected. Seems she wrote some back checks. When I told her we couldn't take her check, she started screaming "Do you know WHO I AM????? I am the President of the PTA!!!". Foam started coming from her mouth and manager ended ok'ing her check. As she left to looked back at me said "I'll get you for this!" as she took her index finger and ran it across her neck.

I've quit that job and moved to another state.

She's nuts.

Um, for all the supporters of the mother, please read this story as reported by the local CBS news.

http://www.ktva.com/ci_14271332?source=most_emailed

If you read it, you will notice this quote:
|"Meriwether County sheriff Steve Whitlock told CBS affiliate WGCL that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the killing.

The Atlanta affiliate asked Whitlock, who knows the mother personally, if this is something that the son could have made up, but the sheriff says it happened.

"The mother was really upset and she proceeded
to punish the child in a strange manner," Whitlock told the station." |
And also:
|"Her children are now in the custody of the Division of Family and Children Services."|

So to summarize, please don't get upset at people in the comments "trolling", which is the form of stirring up controversy in the comments. They feed off of your negative energy, so trying to argue with them over the "truth" goes no where.

Secondly, don't assume because you know her in real life you know the truth. My biology teacher was a deacon at his church and started up his own successful Christian homeschool program which I attended. Turned out he was sexually abusing one of his twin step-daughters the entire time. I know it's hard to believe she could do it, but please don't assume that you know the "truth". The sheriff said, according to a credible news source story, that it happened.

Lastly, while I find the things she's done disgusting, the attention does need to be given to the child. If he is a compulsive liar, he needs help. If he was forced to kill the hamster, he needs help. Regardless of the situation, the child will need help and we should focus on that. Let the judicial system do it's thing with the mother.

What a nut job. She really reminds me of Serial Mom. If you haven't seen that movie, go watch it.

And Jack .. Jack, Jack, Jack... A hamster is not a rat. A rat is not a hamster. Yes, they are both rodents, but they are not the same animal. Quit generalizing based on your ignorance.

And as for the Swedish fuck assuming nobody knows how to find Sweden, let alone Europe.. Fuck you. Get off your goddamned high horse and get your head out of your floppy "master race" asshole. Go make some cheese, or something.

imatroll5, She's Beverly Sutphin for sure!

Maybe someone should hit her with a hammer. You know break her hand or something, that way she knows a little of what the poor animal went through. Animals have feelings too.

lol but you are all missing the point. Did his grades improve?

Some one should bash her white trash face in with a hammer, do the world a favor. That kid is doomed; just what we all needed, another bitter loser raised by a miserable zero to give us attitude while buying popcorn at the movies. I weep for this boys future.

Illwill, are you serious about that map thing? Because I've been studying Swedish and Swedish culture for a while now as a student, but i think ill stop now. you're right, you don't count.
As for the story,
i just feel horrible for the kid, how horribly traumatic.

Anonymous said:
Learn to spell if you want to run a news website.

See, that's the problem, the person who wrote the article never killed a hamster with a hammer and therefore never learned how to spell.

To ALL who express outrage to the mother...

if you are not a vegetarian, if you go to a McDonald's or Burger King, if you have another strip of bacon or if you participate in thanksgivng turkey

you are class-a hypocrites - THINK ABOUT IT!!!

I have a child that suffers from similar problems, she is highly emotional, can at times be confused about what she dreams about and what really happens (age 11 almost 12 and an only child)...

My child has been tested for special ed... and mental disability all signs point to: no she is not conflicted with that.. the closest we have come to any answers is post traumatic stress disorder.. which takes the face of any illness and length of time is undetermined. and she has been on medication as well in therapy.. there has been no improvement.

Medications make it worse... and every school she has attended claims that I neglect my child of personal attention. Since I work and school at home and so does my husband we thought we would try homeschooling for more interaction time. She has the same behavioral patterns with us at the home that she has at school. She doesn't want to work on assignments and everything is too hard, (she is over melodramatic) we have made the content as simple as 4th grade content and without looking at the sheets she instantly goes into melodramatic episodes, if you resist she becomes more dramatic and physical (hitting, slamming, breaking)...

Since homeschooling and spending more time with her we have come to notice that she is taking the behaviors and personalities of all the shows (disney) the cartoons (disney and nickelodean) and games she plays all rated pg-13 and under... So she displays the emotional aspects of these icons and projects these personalities on her friends.. which he has a hard time maintaining...

My child learned sex ed by the 2nd grade from a little boy in her class whose parents were having a baby and took it upon themselves to explain to the child about "where babies come from". The little boy then proceeded to learn for himself in school from the little girls in class. Therefore testing the theories of making a baby. Luckily, the child had not hit puberty.

Friends tell me that my problem with my daughter is that she is an only child. Really? Sounds like the child in this story may have a similar problem and he has siblings...??

SERIOUSLY... unless we were there no one really knows what is going on ...

My sister had my father falsely arrested multiple times growing up ... for whatever motivated her that she didn't want to put up with as she was going through puberty, it was probably because she liked being in control.. eventually the state took her away and she in now a little hoodlum terrorizing people.

IF WE ARE SO BUSY LOOKING OUT FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF CHILDREN... WHOSE LOOKING OUT FOR THE PARENTS...?? MY HUSBAND AND I SUFFER FROM PARENTAL ABUSE EVERYDAY... BUT WE HAVE HOPE THAT IF WE STICK IT THROUGH THESE TOUGH PUBERTY TIMES THAT IT WILL GET BETTER...AND OUR CHILD WILL APPRECIATE IT ONE DAY..

i say we beat her with a hammer and see how she likes it....and by the way don just because i eat a cheeseburger doesnt mean i should be ok with killing my pets with a hammer.. you freak!

Wow, I could never imagine going to that extreme with my 12 year old son. I want to cry for what he is going through as a mother and an animal lover.

When my son gets bad grades he is grounded and has to do special reports on odd subjects or he does PT (Physical Training). He has learned to say his mam's and sir's because he hates doing push-ups. I found out he was throwing away his sandwiches from his lunch and eating everything else, I made him write a 3 page report on starvation and why it is bad to be wasteful of food.

I could never imagine doing something that would make him feel as awful as that kid must be feeling. It is one thing to punish them through grounding or an occasional spanking but that is too far. Some people should not be allowed to have children.

To all those people who posted about what a wonderful mother this woman was (and doesn't address the issue of why is she still in jail one week later...?), my own mother is such a good mom that she would probably have smacked Lynn Geter upside the head with the hammer that she made her kid beat his pet to death with. (That is, if she really did what she's accused of doing). If so, then she is the worst kind of White trash. No respect for life. Just because she's a member of the PTA doesn't really indicate what kind of person she is when behind closed doors. (Anyone remember mass murdering serial killer John Wayne Gacy? Yep, he worked as a clown at children's parties, and was also active in community service, too. But then it was discovered that he killed dozens of people while reciting the 23rd Psalm to each of his victims as he tortured them to death. So, by the standards of Lynn Geter's defenders, John Wayne Gacy was a good Christian because he read the Bible?)

I also live in the same county as this person.

This is disgusting. As soon as I saw it on the news, I couldn't believe something like that would happen in our quaint county.

Now, for those of you talking about how "classy" the South is, have you SEEN the stories on here from New York? Yes, there are white trash and thugs here just like there are in Maryland, Maine, New York, California, Michigan, Wisconsin. (I'm in no way defending this woman.. She's a disgusting piece of work. But I feel like the majority of the people here value family a heck of a lot more than in large metropolitan areas. Maybe I'm generalizing, too, though.)

Anyway, for those of you defending her - how can you? Not only was there physical evidence on the boy, why would he make something like that up and keep it up once she was arrested? If the "cat ate it" it would have been obvious.

I didn't know her, but this is truly sick. I hope they find a nice home to go to.

Also, to Don...

Really? You're going to turn this into a Vegetarian agenda platform?

I was a butcher while I was in college.

I love meat. I hate child abuse and animal abuse. I'm not a hypocrite.

Keira Anon... I was just going to make that point. How many times have we seen serial killers arrested and the neighbors all say they never thought it could be that person. The BTK killer worked in law enforcement and was a church deacon!
Same goes for those people that kill their entire family, little kidsa and all, and kill themselves. Neighbors come out and say they never saw it coming, he was a family man, would have done anything for his kids, etc etc etc.

Just because we are friendly with someone doesn't mean we know them. Only if you live in the home do you have a chance at truly knowing a person... and maybe not even then.

I'm not saying the neghbors defending her are wrong... or right.

for her "friend" Denise that's "known her all her life"... you would throw your support behind this woman but freely admit to encouraging your kids to not associate with her child because he's known to lie??? WTF is that? Kids lying is most usually a cry for attention. He needs someone to connect with and by encouraging your kids to not be around him, that depletes the number of people in his age group that he may make that connection with. It's funny you can be so caring for the mom, yet callous to the child. Wait, that's not funny.

I'm not saying the mom did this, either... just that people automatically jumping to one side or the other should wait for the whole story to come out.

I wonder about the mom, though... she's upset at him not doing his homework... where is she when it's homework time? And if she's working, what about his dad? grandparents? ESPECIALLY if his slacking on homework is known to her! I (or my wife) spend several hours helping our son with his homework each night. With it being a known issue, someone needs to sit and assist him with it, make sure it gets done.

We, the Friends of Lynn would like to set the record straight. The key word is STRAIGHT. You people saying all these things about her don't know the REAL Lynn.

Oh. Do, please, enlighten us...?

First off, she is STRAIGHT! A HETEROSEXUAL woman. You all are crying over some stupid gerble. Well, would you rather the boy be living in a house with gays?

Well, I....wait. What does her sexual orientation have to do with this? And why would that change the fact that making a 12 year old boy kill his pet hamster with a hammer is some pretty sick stuff?

And it was a hamster, Not a gerbil. Also, it's spelled "gerbil," not "gerble."

And I still don't understand why you would bring up the boy living with gays unless...

I praise Jesus everyday that the gays can't get married.

Ahhhh. I see. So it really doesn't have anything to do with Lynn Geter at all. You just hate gay people. And not too fond of hamsters, either.

I think that those kids that have to live with gays should have them taken away.

Whoa. I see we have a 5th-grade dropout here. "...kids that have to live with gays should have them taken away." So...subject....object....uh-huh. And where, exactly, would you like these gays to be taken away TO? I mean, I'm pretty sure I can guess, I just thought I'd point out that your statement, in addition to being a bigoted bunch of crap, has all the semantic prowess of a monkey pounding on a keyboard.

But perhaps I'm being too harsh. After all, anyone who writes

Lynn is a gooder parent than any gays.

...can't be expected to make a coherent argument.

Michael, that was pretty much my opinion, but you said it way better. Or should I say gooder? Ha. Thanks.

Wow... The fact is the woman is in jail, dcf had to become involved. For those who don't know any better, the dcf (children's services) does not (nor does law enforcement)have the freedom to detain anyone without evidence. A child's statement, while enough to prompt an investigation, is not enough on its own to put this woman, or any person, in jail. The facts are obvious. The woman is in jail. There are allegations of abuse to a child and rodent (gerbil/hamster - many people are very anal about using the right name for the animal, but really, calm down - it's a small pet). The mother is in jail and has a criminal history. We all hope that the kids are okay, and we all see the type of people who live in their area - My mother was considered a jem of society, but behind closed doors the mask came off and trust me, an incident like the one described is NEVER solitary. IF the child was forced to kill his pet, that is bad, we all agree. Whether THAT is why the mother is in jail, we do not know for sure, but we do know that is being alleged and that dcf WAS involved. If you have a problem with the reliability of this website, look on another one - it's not the only website, news resource, or public statement regarding this case. It is no ones place to judge her, of course - we cannot say that she is guilty or that she is innocent. We can only hope that she is tried and that the people who ARE in charge of adjudicating her guilt or innocence are neither the type to jump to conclusions nor insist she is innocent because they would have to admit their own bad behavior in gossiping about the "evil lying child". In my personal opinion, an adult who whines about a child lying all the time or stating that they wouldn't let their child be around this lying child is intentionally overlooking the fact that they have turned their eyes from first hand evidence of abuse. Shame on you for putting yourself above a child. A child who acts out is a child begging for help. These "defenders" are most likely, if this incident happened as MOST reporters believe, the people the child(ren) already asked for help. But never worry! Morman, southerner, northerner - none of it really matters. I personally believe that this woman is sick, that the child's teacher may have saved the child's life, if not sanity,and that she and the "defenders" will suffer for the rest of their lives with the information only they know. I certainly hope that they do. :)

To all you "south haters"--kiss my ass! There are just as many freaks in the north. The NORTHERN state I just moved from arrested some guy for trying to perform an at-home circumcision of his toddler son, and in the same city, a guy I worked with was arrested for answering and performing a "rape for hire" ad on Craigslist. Please--keep your generalizations to yourself. It's as bad as saying that ALL foreigners are illegal and ALL blacks are illiterate. Go suck some smog in NYC or something more productive to remove your sorry ass from the planet.

When i first heard the story i was shocked! I'm only 20 and i have a 4 month old son... I grew up with an abusive father and uncle and what that B!TCH made her son do was worse than anything i ever suffered... my prayers go out for that family... that woman is crazy! What is this world coming to? How will our children and grand children... our future generations... live with such things going on? what will we hear about next?

So, previously, this psycho bitch worked for a rehab center. She built up trust in that community while stealing $35,000 from them.

Now, she lives in a community where she has built up trust by being an active member of the church and the PTA, while the whole time she was....doing what?

Point is, she is a two-faced lying bitch. In looking at her past history as a deceptive thief, we can see how she has gained the trust of some of those in her current community, and sucessfully hid her craziness from them for a period of time, which is probably now at an end. These devout 'friends' of her's will eventually come to accept the truth that she is a psycho bitch.

I lived in the same trailerpark as her years ago, back when she was in trouble for dating a boy who I think was 15 while she was in her 30's. Something like that. Anyway, she was a nasty, cruel-hearted bitch. I am not at all surprised to hear that she did this. I remember she used to drink and smoke while she was pregnant, my wife and I couldn't believe it. Her little kids, dirty and disheveled, barely more than toddlers, ran throughout the trailerpark unsupervised all day long. One of our neighbors was blowing his leaves once and she came roaring out of the house screaming and going on like a lunatic that she couldn't sleep with all that noise and such, this was at 1pm. Her trailer was the dirtiest in the park, patches of weeds over a foot tall, sheets covering most of her windows instead of draperies, a confederate flag in the front window. One broken out window fixed with cardboard and duct tape, peeling paint. Deck rotting and falling apart. Children's toys, car tires, just assorted junk all over her dirt lot for a yard. It was just pitiful. It really made the rest of the park look like crap. We told our daughter to stay away from her and her kids, and from what I understand, most of the residents at the park did the same. Late at night you could frequently hear loud music from them partying, which often lead to yelling and screaming. The police were over there frequently late at night, I am guessing for domestic violence type of stuff. She was known throughout the park as the crazy lady. I am so glad I am out of there and away from her.

Just for the record, she and her family moved out of that trailer park a few years ago. They have also changed. Their children have gotten older, their family has grown, and she is more responsible than she used to be. We all change as we get older. I have known Lynn to be a bit heavy handed with her children, but kids these days need some discipline. I am not condoning what she did, please don't think that. I think that is terrible. I am just saying that not everyone has what it takes to control children these days.

listen i am 12 years old and this made me laugh my ass off maybe because i have a really good sense of humor and laugh at almost anything my hamsters that i had (7 hamsters)2 boyz 5 girls the girls actually ripped the boys hamsters apart anmd were eating them i am a member of the aspca i feel sad for the hamster and the boy but im personally scarred too my hamsters ate each other and i saw the limbless mutilated body and cried straight for like 2 weeks soo yea bt now i laugh at it no big deal sorry if i offend u guys but this shity was pretty funny lolololol i have a CAT NOW AND A PUPPY =] EMAIL ME @ COOKIE4LIFE97@YAHOO.COM IF U GOT ANYTHING U WANT TO SAY THX LOL WICKED LADY SHES KOOL (I WANT TO BE A PSYCHOLOGIST)

quiana,
You need a spanken; You are not old enough to be on this website or any website. Why are you on a computer with out your parents knowing about it? If you think it funny about your hammsters you better find another profession other than a PSYCHOLOGIST. And fire yourself from the ASPCA.

Having just stumbled across this story today. My first thought is maybe the gerbil was removed from the room in the heat of an argument then attacked by the cat and the mother insisted that her son put it out of it's misery . That's still awful.

Wow, "I wonder," that's quite a big leap. Do you know if they even have a cat?

Mcr :
An earlier comment from 'Concerned Friend' blamed the family feline.

Or Maybe the women is just nuts and made the kid hit the hamster over the head with the hammer an killed it because the bitch didn't like his grades. There was not cat because the dog killed it!