Police Chasing Exotic Animals; Supernanny Jo Frost's Take on Child Abuse
LEMON: Tonight, we have newly released audio recordings of police in Ohio coming face to face with wild animals. Dozens of lions, tigers and grizzly bears were let out of their cages last month by the owner who then killed himself. The deputies' conversations were captured on their dashcams as they tracked the animals.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: One wolf, dispatch on the east side of the interstate.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've got a long rifle with me, unless you need me to go somewhere else.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There are still three lions running loose.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I hear you shooting down there. You need to be careful towards the house.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A male called in, advising me 25 minutes ago, 100 yards from 70 headed toward -- he saw a large black bear.</s>LEMON: An official report on the incident says at times the animals were just a few feet away from police officers. One sergeant reported spotting a white tiger apparently eating the body of its deceased owner. All the animals were killed. A viral video has set off a nationwide debate this week. When does a parent's discipline turn into child abuse? The footage that triggered it all shows a Texas family court judge beating his 16-year- old daughter with a leather strap. A warning, the clip is graphic and it's disturbing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bend over the bed. Bend over the bed.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stop. Stop. Stop.</s>LEMON: Parenting experts are in an uproar. Among them, the former star of the "Supernanny" Jo Frost has dedicated her life to helping to raise other people's kids. And she says the judge's methods in the video constitute child abuse.</s>LEMON: Is there any instance, any instance, where corporal punishment is acceptable?</s>FROST: I don't think so at all. I have clearly shown certainly in America for the last eight years where families who have been raised to think that corporal punishment is fine and have asked me to come into their homes. And I've recognized that parents have a choice in choosing alternative discipline that allows them to grow with their family and to bond. And it's not acceptable by any means at all.</s>LEMON: OK. People know you as the problem solver who has entered the homes of hundreds of families and turned things around, possibly thousands of families. If you were in this home, what would you have done?</s>FROST: I think the most important thing to do here is to understand that families need to be very clear in their communication with their rules and their expectations, and to understand that when we're dealing with 16-year-olds, it's about meeting those expectations and understanding that we can take away their privileges when they've broken those rules.</s>LEMON: When you see the full seven minutes of the video, the father is definitely very stern, scary to a lot of people. He is cursing. And he puts his teenage daughter down -- as he puts her down.</s>FROST: Yes.</s>LEMON: I want you to look at the clip, how he views what he did seven years ago when the footage was shot.</s>JUDGE WILLIAM ADAMS, ACCUSED OF BEATING DAUGHTER: In my mind, I haven't done anything wrong other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing and I did lose my temper but I've since apologized.</s>LEMON: OK. So he doesn't really have remorse. He has apologized. So, how do children especially teens respond to this type of parenting, this severe scolding and here how he downplays it?</s>FROST: Don, he didn't apologize. He didn't apologize. He justified what he did. That's what he did. And he knows -- he knows now that there are certainly other ways in how he could have done things better. That's the point here -- that America needs to recognize that. As a spokesperson for the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children where we know that addiction and bullying comes from family who do not break this mold. This is what we're going to see. It's not just about laying down rules and expectations. It's about how you nurture a relationship. It's about how you build trust with your children. It's about validating their opinions.</s>LEMON: Well, Jo Frost is a spokeswoman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Which reports last year more than 1,700 kids died from abuse. And Just Friday, police in Indiana arrested this father on murder charges. Investigators say Terry Sturgess bound his 10-year-old son with duct tape and beat him to death. A Florida woman says she is grateful to be alive after a helicopter crashed into her house. The chopper went down today in West Palm Beach, Florida, hitting the woman's roof and car. A second home was also damaged. Amazingly the pilot and the passenger only suffered minor injuries. An investigation is now under way. And Herman Cain wraps up a week he'd probably like to forget.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know who's in charge of his rapid response team. It might be the same people who ran Charlie Sheen's career management seminar. It might be Lindsay Lohan's people.</s>LEMON: More from my conversation with political satirist Bill Durst, next.