DELTONA, Fla. — An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room.
Authorities say the father, 45, didn’t even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
When he heard noises coming from his daughter’s bedroom Thursday morning and saw a stranger standing naked on the girl’s bed, he swung a metal pipe. He then chased the teen out the front door and called police.
The boy was taken to the hospital where doctors closed a head wound with staples.
The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000
Had I been the father, I think I may have gotten out a dull knife and whacked the *other* head, then placed it in his hand. Staples would not have been an option.
Always your extremist – AWB
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Don’t know WHY Dad was aiming for that boy’s HEAD….musta missed where he REALLY wanted to hit him.
But BATTERY on a CHILD???
Gimme a damn break.
I’d have said he was an “intruder”.
(in several ways)
B.G.
Damn shame the Dad only took one swing!
In Florida the Dad will serve time and loose a lawsuit to the parents of the naked burgler.
What a Country!
Yet if it were your son, you’re opinion would be different, I bet.
No, I wouldn’t feel any different. Since you do not have a son, I don’t expect you to understand that.
So you honestly would have rather another man his your son with a metal pipe than see the proper course of justice? You would present this man with an award, shake his hand and tell him, “Good Job, thanks for using unjustified force, injuring my son and ignoring due process with my son?”
I doubt it.
If one of my sons had slipped into some girls bedroom and got naked with her AND, got whacked in the head by the girls Dad, I might have suggested the next time, just call me. So I could whack him in the head and the ass.
This kid was a teenager. Was he thirteen or seventeen? So what!
Ric: What in the world do you meen “justified force”. Even in Florida, if you walk into someone elses home, remove your clothes and stand over a guys daughter, you sure as hell ‘ain’t collecting for the Red Cross’. I think the kid is real lucky the girls old man didn’t break his legs too! I’d much rather have my kids with a knot on their heads that a twenty year strech in the slammer for rape. Or, have them be a teenage father. Doctor Spock was a certified nut case!
Call me old fashoned but, when one of my kids got popped for DUI and called me to come bail him out of jail at three in the morning, after asking him if he was over the legal limit, I told him to call the guys he was drinking with to bail him out. I went back to sleep and slept real well.
The kid’s 40 now. Doesn’t seem to hate me, my wife, the world or law enforcement. Every now and again he thanks me for letting him get away with the crap he tried to pull as a child.
I don’t understand what this means:
“Every now and again he thanks me for letting him get away with the crap he tried to pull as a child.”
Do you mean he appreciated learning from the school of hard knocks or is that a typo? I don’t have an issue with it either way, just confused.
Well Ric, in my old age I sometimes leave out words. That should have read ‘…thanks me for NOT letting him get away with the crap he tried to pull as a child.
Sorry. I transpose numbers in the check book too!
I get it.
Your points are valid.
By “Unjustified force” I meant that it involved and metal pipe and a trip to the emergency room. I think the guy knew it wasn’t a burglar.
BTW… I have five kids. All gainfully employed. They have, so far given us eight beautiful grand-kids.
I can also tell you the name of the school principal that gave me the last paddling I got. I had it coming. And…. my Grand-Father paddled me when I got home that day!
Ric:
I understand where you are coming from. I wouldn’t like the fact my kid got hit in the head with a metal pipe either. But…..I would not support filing charges against the Father of the girl or suing him. I WOULD support his defending his child and his home.
For those of us who were kids ourselves at the end of WW2 and grew up in what seems to have been a more ‘respectful of others’ time, I find it very difficult to support the folks who insist the children are never wrong and others are always out to get them. I know that times have changed but, I don’t have to like it.