Posted on 06/16/2013 8:28:41 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Clyde, N.Y. --- A Wayne County man is now facing four charges for Endangering the Welfare of a Child after he interrupted an act of vandalism at a home he was renovating for his father-in-law.
The incident unfolded around 9 p.m. Saturday when Jesse Daniels said he told his wife to call 911 after he heard loud noises coming from the home next door and saw an individual striking a wall with a hammer.
Daniels... ran next door and found four children, ages eight and ten, doing damage to the property. Daniels said he took a hammer from one of the kids and corralled them into a closet while he waited for police to arrive. Daniels estimated that the damage to his father-in-law's property exceeds $40,000...
Clyde Village Police took the children back to their parents and filed felony criminal charges of Burglary 2nd Degree and Criminal Mischief 2nd Degree. Those cases will be handled in Family Court and the results of each case is likely to remain sealed.
On Monday police returned to Daniels' home and arrested him on four counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
The parents of the children insisted on the charges according to authorities. They claim that their children were shoved into the closet, that one was grabbed around the neck, and that Daniels' threatened them with the hammer.
Daniels was arraigned on those charges and is due back in court later this month. The maximum sentence on each charge is one year in county jail.
Wayne County District Attorney Richard Healy tells 13WHAM News that the entire incident is still under investigation and he is still gathering information. While Healy can decide not to prosecute he said he does not have enough information at this time to make that decision....
Paul Bowler lives not far from Daniels home and the home that was vandalized and he made no excuses for the actions of his boys and their two alleged accomplices when 13WHAM News confronted him....
Bowler said his two boys are traumatized by the incident and their mother showed 13WHAM News a picture of the incident that she says one of them drew. Bowler also provided 13WHAM News with a photo of the neck of one of his boys because he said Daniels grabbed his son by the neck and left a mark.
Oh they're traumatized, they haven't been to school they don't sleep until the sun comes up, said Bowler.
"I don't know why he didn't get more charges than just Endangering the Welfare of a Child because if you're asking me that's imprisonment, that's unlawfully dealing with a child, said Bowler.
"I would like to see them (the charges) dropped against me because I was just protecting my family and had the house torched it would've affected my home and everything, Daniels responded. "I hope the children learn a lesson, I don't want to see them grow up to be bad people. I mean they're intelligent kids. What happened\ happened and I just want to get it over with and not have any more problems that's all I want.
Would *Ithaca area* work then? I know it’s a stretch.....
Yeah, I do know where Clyde is.
There used to be a natural/health food store up that way. Clear Eye.
Maybe there’s something in the water there.
The schools are all serving meals all summer here, hardly anyone is going to go, what a waste of tax dollars
I would have made my sons clean EVERY BIT of their mess up.
These parents don’t care about their children much. : {
They’re pretty crowded here and it’s almost all white kids. I would say half the families could somewhat use the assistance and the rest are there just for fun or for the parents’ convenience. For some reason very few Hispanics go to the summer meals, although they eat the same food during the school year.
[[Wow...I tried to read that 4 times...Wow.]]
And you’re a mchu better pesron for it today- You’re welcoem
[[I would have made my sons clean EVERY BIT of their mess up.]]
And today we’d be charged swith child abuse if we made the kids actually obey us and hte law-
[[but in NY you cannot even corral them?]]
Apparently not- peopel are still allowed to ‘own/’ a gun, but they just aren’t allwoed to use the gun- and appaently it’s agaisnt hte law in NY to make citizens arrests or detain someoen until thel aw getrs there-
In other words, peopel MUST SOLELY rely on the police for everythign but as we see i nthsi case- the police were nowhere to be foudn whiel the kids destroyed the house— Just imagien if the kids had instead broken into the occupied hows of Daniels with guns- and Daniels had to wait for police to get there provuided he cousdl even manage to get to a phone while under attack- because heaven forbid he shoudl protect hismelf and family with deadly force in his own house-
[[In order to charge someone with endangering all that is required is that a police officer swear out a complaint. ]]
I beleive all that is necessary is if a cop sees marks on someone- which then gives the cop the ‘right’ to make the arrest regardless of how the incident actually went down- it’s sort of liek the saying ‘shoto first ask quesitons later’ mentality- You see it a lot on the show cops- where a fight takes place, but only oen person has marks- the officers are ‘required’ to arrest the oen that doesn’t have any marks regardless of who says they are the victim- (unless there are eyewitnesses that can explain that the one with marks received them while beign the aggressor and instigator)
You just can’t make this up. Property rights. we don’t need no stinkin property rights.
Call Wayne County District Attorney Richard Healy: Wayne County District Attorney Richard Healy tells 13WHAM News that the entire incident is still under investigation and he is still gathering information. While Healy can decide not to prosecute he said he does not have enough information at this time to make that decision.... Phone: (315)946-5905
In different time the families of the children would have reacted far differently. The fathers would have resolved this with their children.
$40K of vandalism that’s a lot of community service.
When my daughter heard this story, she said if she were one of the vandals, she would have begged to be corralled in the closet rather than face her father and me.
She knows she would have had to personally clean up the mess, and work to earn any remaining cost to the homeowner, no matter how long it would have taken. Her penalty would have included a heartfelt letter of apology, written in neat cursive handwriting, and using perfect grammar and spelling. She would have also had to do community service, starting with volunteering for mowing and gardening at the victim’s home. If he would have declined this, she would have had to perform alternative service for a local charity.
She would do the same with her children. She thanked us for being good parents.
I have confidence that the good people of Clyde and Wayne County will resolve this matter appropriately.
If Obama had four sons...
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