flight attendent

This week I was watching the news and a story came on about a flight attendant, there was a lady with a one year old kid on her flight. The kid was acting up and the mother "hit" the child. When the flight attendant witnessed this she took the child for the duration of the flight. The captain called the police to meet the mother when she got off the plane where they escorted her and the kid to their connecting flight. Now the mother said she didn't hit her child she popped the one year old. I'm all for discipline but not in the face, and especially not in the face of a one year old. I believe the flight attendant handled it just right. She didn't cause a scene or yell at the mother, she just took the kid off the mothers hands for a little while and let the police handle the rest.