Father who beat to death with his fists a man molesting his daughter will not be charged. Grand jury reached same conclusion as police: The father was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.

CrawdaddyJoe · 2012-06-19T23:47:31+00:00

Dude, the guy walked in on this scumbag raping his child, and still had it in his heart to even call 9/11 and try to save the guy's life after using the force he thought, in the moment, was necessary to stop the rape of his child.

Justice has been served here; this man should not be in prison.

stemgang · 2012-06-20T02:27:08+00:00

I was going to ask for proof before sentencing the accused to the death penalty, but that was covered in the article.

The girl was examined at a hospital, and authorities say forensic evidence and witness accounts corroborated the father's story that his daughter was being sexually molested.

Isn't Texas the state where it was recently legal to beat to death your wife and her lover if you catch them in flagrante delicto?

Is there a point beyond which defense turns into offense?

The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities say, and started pummeling him to death with his fists.

Could he have stopped at some point after the rapist was no longer a threat, but was not dead yet?

I guess we'll never know.

But on the other hand, I am frequently sympathetic to vigilante justice, and it doesn't get much more clear-cut than finding someone raping your child.

So, execution administered, and justice delivered. Whether or not it was self-defense.

ThePigman · 2012-06-20T02:47:09+00:00

TIL that Texas occasionally gets it right - how 'bout that? Frankly, i would have beaten the turd senseless, no matter whose child it was, and if i bothered to call the ambulance at all it would be for fear of a murder charge, not out of concern for some child-raping piece of shit.

td9red · 2012-06-20T00:58:22+00:00

I don't have any problem with the police not charging the father.

2012-06-20T13:03:15+00:00

I'm ok with this. If it had been days later, I wouldn't be, but this was catching someone in the act. That counts for a lot. If it makes anyone feel better, I'd beat a woman to death if I caught her molesting my 5 year old son too.

Leinadro · 2012-06-20T03:49:16+00:00

I'm a bit bothered by this. I'm certainly not trying to say the man should have done nothing. But at the same time it's not like he hit him once and he died. He beat him repeatedly. Was there some point at which the dad switched from "I'm gonna save her" to "I'll kill you for what you did!"?

genuinemra · 2012-06-20T00:12:44+00:00

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genuinemra · 2012-06-20T00:32:14+00:00

So he pulled the man off his daughter, then pummelled him with his fists? You mean his beating of this man was not integral to also stopping the molesting? Another win for TX justice.

Colcut · 2012-06-20T06:41:55+00:00

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