"If you don't shut that baby up, I will shut her up for you." These are words that will live in the memories of horrified onlookers at a Stone Mountain, Ga., Walmart location last year, when a stranger walked up to a 2-year-old toddler, grabbed and then slapped her across the face four or five times for crying, after repeatedly warning the mother to keep her child quiet.

A Gwinnett County judge found Roger Stephens, 61, guilty of second-degree child cruelty and sentenced him yesterday to six months in jail. Stephens, who has been in jail since the incident occurred on August 31 of last year, has about five weeks left on his sentence.

The retiree will also spend six months in home confinement, after his jail sentence is completed, which translates in to no contact with children 12 and under, round-the-clock use of an ankle monitor and mandatory mental health counseling.

Stephens' defense attorney Jeff Sliz, says that his client's behavior was "the ultimate knee-jerk reaction." He also reveals that Stephens is shocked at the media circus the case has turned into, "He never in his wildest imagination believed it would mushroom into this." Sliz goes on to say, that Stephens has certainly learned his lesson, "He put his hands on a child when he clearly shouldn't have, and he realizes that."