Dad Arrested for Taking Daughter’s Phone as Punishment

Yahoo.com ^ | 1/27/2016 | Melissa Walker

[Beave Meister]

When Ronald Jackson found a text he thought was rude and inappropriate on his then-12-year-old daughter's phone in September 2013, he took the cell away. But the child's mother, Michelle Steppe, balked at his action -- and she called the police.

Steppe and Jackson have not been a couple for years, and Steppe is now married to a Grand Prairie, Texas, police officer. When the police showed up at Jackson's door later that day and asked for the iPhone 4 back, Jackson refused. "At that point I decided the police don't interfere with my ability to parent my daughter," he told KHOU 11 News on Wednesday.

But Steppe insisted that the phone belonged to her, and three months after Jackson refused to return it, he got a citation in the mail for theft of property. He was offered a plea deal in January 2014 if he would return the phone. Instead, Jackson hired an attorney and requested a jury trial.

The case moved to Dallas County and, unbeknownst to Jackson, a warrant was issued for his arrest. The police showed up at his door around 2 a.m. in April 2015, and Jackson was handcuffed and taken to jail.

[Beave Meister]

This is what the police focused on? Are you kidding me. In a nation currently run locally and nationally by fools, this story jumps to the top of the idiocy chart.

[unixfox]

Insanity.

[nickcarraway]

Texas is a lot more liberal than it seems.

[stinkerpot65]

Three months? Deadbeat dad looking for a free phone.

[dfwgator]

Should I just turn myself into the police now?

[Sacajaweau]

Already posted.

[Farmer Dean]

It was the jabberwalky ex-wife who pushed the issue.The father is trying to do some responsible parenting and the ex just can’t have that.

[bigbob]

and these people are going to vote for a conservative?

[Vigilanteman]

My daughters did not get their first cell phone until they went off to college. When they gave me the old excuse that "I need to call for a ride when I'm done with after school activities", I loaned them my prepaid TracFone.

I was a mean father. So mean that all three of our daughters grew up to be useful, competent citizens.

[N. Theknow]

Don't take the phone.

Take the charger.

[LostInBayport]

the police showed up at his door around 2 a.m.

Clearly there is not any sort of vindictive agenda being channeled by the ex through her policeman hubby causing him to abuse the authority granted to him by the citizenry. That would be wrong! /s

[discostu]

Once you get past the deliberately inflammatory no where near the whole truth headline it seems right to me. The ex-wife paid for it, he took it, that’s theft.

[proudpapa]

What an evil Steppe mom.

[Catmom]

Gotta be all those transplants who fled there from failing blue states.

[laplata]

Texas is a lot more liberal than it seems.

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Progressives have infested and infected every state and locale. No place is safe from them.

[napscoordinator]

So really he got arrested for failing to obey a direct order from the cops. Don’t you love these big fat lie article titles.

[napscoordinator]

Texas is a lot more liberal than it seems.

Better not be. If we lose Texas, we will NEVER win another Presidential election ever.

[napscoordinator]

Most of us didn’t have phones in college. They didn’t even have them as a rule. They were the exception. I am sure you were a fine parent but not like it was that big a sacrifice.

[SkyDancer]

Divorced ex-wife just beating up on the dad.

[CGASMIA68]

X=C