East Point candidate faces child cruelty charges weeks before election
EAST POINT, Ga. - A woman running for East Point City Council is facing serious criminal charges just weeks before voters head to the polls.
Marie Terry, a candidate for City Council, has been arrested and charged with three counts of child cruelty. The allegations stem from her role as a foster parent to three children, ages 13 to 17....
According to arrest warrants, Terry is accused of hitting the teens with a skillet, a wooden grill scraper, and a plastic bat when they "needed to be disciplined."
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/east-point-city-council-candidate-marie-terry
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Except he used a razor strap, a wooden pole, a pig slapper, his belt, or whatever he could get his hands on. He once sliced my leg open with a flyswatter because I did not come into the living room fast enough. I was four.
Since this is Georgia, let's see if the status quo downplays this. I expect them to do so, to be honest.
Or, did they deserve it, as people used to tell me? 
(This is sarcasm, btw.)
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