A mom has come up with a rather unusual way of punishing her son for making homophobic comments; making him walk around a Walmart in a tutu.

Police in Rock Hill, South Carolina were called after they had received complaints that a 10-year-old boy had been walking around in the discount store in a strange dress.

They said the boy was wearing women’s boots, a tutu, a women’s undergarment, a T-shirt with ‘various permanent market writing underneath’.

The police report also claims the boy’s head was shaved ‘in an unusual manner, bald on top with a patch of wig on the front of his head’. To top things off, the word ‘BAD’ was written in black marker on the back of the boy’s head.

The boy’s mother told police she was ‘punishing her son for fighting and making homophobic remarks in school,’ according to The Herald.

She added the boy had ‘ongoing attitude problems’ and ‘corporal punishment has been ineffective’.

So, in an attempt to make him behave better, she was ‘attempting to embarrass’ him.

Rock Hill Police spokesman Mark Bollinger told the Washington Post the county’s department of social services had been notified regarding the women’s parenting skills.

‘We’re not going to charge the mother with anything,’ he said. ‘The incident apparently shocked some customers and some of the staff, and they gave us a call.’