Keep in mind that hot sauces tend to be an acquired taste - those of us who reguarly use them, or eat extremelly spicy foods, are more accustomed to the "burn" whereas others might not be. I personally use hot sauce quite a bit, and it doesn't phase me to eat jalapeno chips right out of a jar . . . my girlfriend, on the other hand, can barely even handle yellow mustard . . . for someone with no acquired taste for spicy fixings, even mild tobasco sauce could be quite painful and unbearable.
Personally - I can't say I agree with such a method of punishment. I think there's more effective means that can be tried before such an action . . . but who's to say how far the kid pushed the mother in the first place, or how many other forms of punishment she tried before resorting to this?
Sorry, but until we know the rest of the story, I'm not going to draw conclusions on what I see as media sensationalism. That's become a big problem in the US, and has lead to quite drastic measures being taken by authorities simply because an uninformed public is demanding of it - and I say uninformed public because the media has only fed them what aspects of the story they want to report on, not the whole unbiased account of what has taken place.
Personally - I can't say I agree with such a method of punishment. I think there's more effective means that can be tried before such an action . . . but who's to say how far the kid pushed the mother in the first place, or how many other forms of punishment she tried before resorting to this?
Sorry, but until we know the rest of the story, I'm not going to draw conclusions on what I see as media sensationalism. That's become a big problem in the US, and has lead to quite drastic measures being taken by authorities simply because an uninformed public is demanding of it - and I say uninformed public because the media has only fed them what aspects of the story they want to report on, not the whole unbiased account of what has taken place.