Mum shames 13-year-old daughter for racy online photos
A US mother has publicly shamed her daughter on Facebook after she posted racy photos online and claimed she was 19-years-old when she was only 13.
"You're 13," the mother, Valerie Starks, says to the girl.
"So why does your Facebook page say that your 19? Are you 19?"
"You've got a Facebook page and you're on there with your bra on, right?" Starks asks her daughter.
"Is that what you do?"
Her daughter starts to cry.
“You wasn't crying when you was posting pictures on Facebook, was you? In a bra? Some little girl in some lace panties that you know you don't own. You still wear panties that say Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday."
In the video, Starks included a message for the men on her daughter's Facebook page: "She's a kid and she's going to stay a kid. And as long as she's under my roof, she's going to do what I say."
The video lasts 5 minutes and 40 seconds.
Starks told US media that she was shocked when she found her daughters racy Facebook profile and the grown men she was connected with.
"She's had issues with Facebook in the past, at least four times in the past," Starks told reporters. "She spent half of last summer on punishment after being on Facebook, and it wasn't even half as bad."
She said she didn’t want to embarrass her daughter but she wanted to make a statement that her behavior would not be tolerated.
The video has been viewed more than 10 million times.
Most of the people who have commented on the video have supported Starks but others have been critical, questioning whether humiliating her daughter is good parenting.
Starks said she was glad the video has sparked conversation.
"Negative or not, maybe it made them think," Starks said.
As for her daughter, she says the girl has learned her lesson.
"She's not mad at me. Her friends are not bullying her at school, and she's OK," Starks said. "Next time she thinks about Facebook, she's going to remember this day."
Since posting the video, Starks says her Facebook page has maxed out.
"I have over 5,000 friends now," Starks said. "Facebook won't let me accept any more."
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