"A bored toddler's mum couldn't believe her eyes when an assistant in a Spalding high street store smacked her daughter's bum for knocking some items off a shelf.
Angela Cropley said she had gone into Boots in Hall Place with her eight-month-old son and three-year-old daughter and needed help finding some soya formula.
She said: "I had just found out my son was lactose intolerant and usually the staff are very helpful.
"I went to the pharmacy counter and spoke to a lady there. She seemed to know what she was talking about and managed to find what I needed as I had no clue.
"While we were talking, my daughter started to get fed up and was playing with things on the shelf and knocked a couple of items off.
"I went over to pick them up and while I was bent down, the woman smacked my daughter's bum and told her she was naughty. I didn't believe what I saw and just said that I would pay for anything that was broken and left."..."
http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/latest-news/mum-puts-boots-in-after-her-daughter-is-smacked-1-4955448
"Vigilantism, UK-style: a Boots worker stepping in to smack your toddler"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/04/boots-employee-smack-toddler