When Val Starks saw a photograph of her 13-year-old daughter posing in lacy underwear on Facebook, she knew she had to act.
Asking a friend to film the confrontation, she can be seen asking her sobbing daughter: “Are you a freak? Do you know anything about being a freak?”
"She doesn’t sit around in a bra, she doesn’t have any lace panties, and she doesn’t know how to wipe her butt good at 13"
After her daughter mumbles something tearfully, Val snaps: “You need to speak up so people can hear you.
“Don’t cry now, you weren’t crying when you were posting pictures on Facebook … in a bra or some little girl in some lace panties you know you don’t own.”
Val then orders her daughter to admit to the camera that she still has a bedtime - and that she still watches the Disney Channel.
Addressing the men who had befriended her daughter online, she added firmly: “To everybody out there who’s her friend this is going to go out there on her Facebook page and I want all of you to know she watches Disney Channel, she has a bed time, she doesn’t sit around in a bra, she doesn’t have any lace panties, and she doesn’t know how to wipe her butt good at 13.
“She’s a kid, she’s going to stay a kid and as long as she is under my roof she is going to do what I say.”
Watch the confrontation for yourself below:
The video has now been viewed over 10 million times, with many parents applauding Val’s no-nonsense attitude when it comes to discipling her daughter.
One wrote: “Kids will be kids but as parents we need to step in and do our part as parents. I rather she be crying and embarrass on Facebook then to be in some man’s house or in a situation that she cannot handle because she’s trying to be grown-up.”
Another added: “I’m sure this wasn’t your first attempt to reach out to your daughter but I put money she has her attention now. Public humiliation is the only thing that works sometimes better that then her becoming another statistic.”
However some have slammed Val for humiliating her 13-year-old, to which she replied: “I’m her mother before anything. I’m not her friend. I’m not here to let her do whatever she wants.
“My job is to raise her and sometimes that takes a little bit of tough love. It’s not something I want to do.”
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