After learning her 11-year-old daughter was twerking at a middle school dance, Frances Hena of lovely Bakersfield, California did what any mother would do: made her kid stand at a busy intersection with a sign reading, "I was disrespecting my parents by twerking at my school dance."
Hena says she forbid her daughter from doing the now-infamous dance craze at the middle school function, but her daughter didn't listen. "That's ridiculous to even think that's okay at a school dance," Hena told the local ABC affiliate. "When she's 18, she can do whatever she wants. As of right now, that's not something she's going to be doing."
When a friend told Hena about her daughter's butt-shaking routine, Hena went the public-shaming route. But the poster board pillory didn't end there. KTVU reports:
Hena took things one step further by calling up a local news station to let it know where and when they could find her daughter during her public shaming. The TV station obliged and showed up to cover the girl's punishment for its daily newscast.
Sure enough, 23ABC Bakersfield was there to cover the public shaming and post it to YouTube:
As for whether or not the stunt went too far, Hena tells 23ABC: "Every parenting is different. I mean, what am I supposed to do? Whoop her and get the cops called on me? ... I'm embarrassed myself for having her twerk at a school dance."
