Toddler Fight Club: "It Toughens Them Up"

by Jordan Yerman | April 20, 2007 at 09:10 am

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A mother who forced her children to fight as she videotaped them was spared jail time and is allowed to keep custody, although the environment in which they're raised is clearly unsafe:

A mother who forced her two toddlers to attack each other with weapons and filmed the fight has been spared jail.

Four admitted abuse charges

Four admitted abuse charges

Zara Care, with her sisters Serenza and Danielle Olver and her mother Carole Olver forced the children to punch each other in the face.

The four women also goaded the two-year-old boy and three-year-old girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, to hit each other with a magazine and a hairbrush.

When one did not fight, they called him a "wimp" and a "faggot".

The fight, filmed on a home video recorder, was found by the children's father who is in the Army and had returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

He had been looking for some footage of his children playing to show their grandparents, but instead found the fight and reported it to social services.