Posted on 06/17/2007 7:28:37 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
A Sellersburg man was arrested and charged with battery for allegedly spanking his son with a leather belt.
Sellersburg Police Department Deputy Chief Donnie Ross said the 7-year-old child’s mother called police Sunday night when he wouldn’t stop crying after suffering a spanking from his father, 46-year-old Ernest E. Haycraft of the 1900 block of Lincoln Drive. Haycraft told police the boy was being punished for purposely breaking one of his toys and that he only struck him “three or four times,” Ross said.
Officers, however, arrested Haycraft after seeing a raised, red welt on the boy’s buttocks.
“(The officers) saw that it was bad enough abuse, and that he needed to be arrested,” Ross said of the incident.
Haycraft has never before been arrested by the Sellersburg Police Department, and Ross thought it to be “a singular incident that hasn’t happened in the past.”
The investigation has been turned over to Child Protective Services of Clark County. A phone call placed to that office Tuesday afternoon was not returned, but a spokeswoman did confirm that a caseworker was investigating the incident. Ross said officers took pictures of the boy’s injuries and submitted them to CPS.
Clark County Deputy Prosecutor Shelley Marble — who specializes in crimes against children — said these types of cases do come across her desk from time to time.
“I probably get about one or two of these (types of cases) a month,” she said from her office Tuesday afternoon.
The problem, she said, is that what police officers find to be probable cause for an arrest often isn’t enough for
prosecutors to get a conviction.
“If a mom whips a kid with a belt, and the kid says it happened and the mom says it happened but there are no marks, then that’s enough for (police) to substantiate inappropriate discipline, but not enough for us to file charges,” she said.
“These types of cases depend on a lot of different variables,” she continued. “You do have parents that are disciplining their child and then you have beating — there is a difference. You have to look at each case individually.”
Marble said she had not yet been informed of the charges preliminary filed against Haycraft and that she likely wouldn’t be until CPS completed its investigation.
Ross said Sellersburg police have, in the past, made similar arrests “where parents have, in our opinion, overreacted to misbehavior and gone above and beyond what we would consider normal discipline.”
“They don’t happen often, but they do happen,” he said.
If you got one to small she took you down and picked the switch for you.
The results were the same either way.
I never saw my dad spank my sister but mom took her to task a few times.
I thought I was the only one that got Mr. Flinn's special paddle.
Spare the rod, and spoil the child. But we’ve made the later national policy.
Thus this story will probable not end well long after the boys little red butt gets soothed.
Feminism is to blame IMHO...
Excellent comment.
The holes made it much more aerodynamic. He could swing that thing darn near the speed of sound!
Your dad sounds like a fine man!
And for some strange reason, the older I get, the smarter he gets.
“Ross said officers took pictures of the boy’s injuries and submitted them to CPS.”
So it’s ok to take pictures of a boys nude rear end but not spank? It looks like the only abuse this boy faced was sexual molestation at the hands of the police.
“I agree with the arrest.”
That’s because you’re a humanist. The Bible is not silent on this issue and if a parent wants to raise their children biblically, that child will have welts and even bruises.
Pro 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Pro 22:15 Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
“it’s the willful defiance of the parent, no matter the situation - this is what REQUIRES correction.”
You’re absolutely right and in line with what the Bible says. It’s amazing that anyone still sees it that way considering the incredible amount of indoctrination from the Humanists.
......Those of us who hold on to biblicist Christianity and endeavor, by God’s Grace, to practice it in our homes, our businesses and in life’s affairs, will appear increasingly strange (creepier and creepier) to those who just flow with the tide of the world;........
Wow! You nailed it. Bravo on reading God’s Word and loving it. What’s scary is closet freeper’s paradigm is the paradigm of most republicans. It’s clear that if a man doesn’t have God as their guide, they automatically defer to the Prince and Power of the air.
This thread is still running?!
What was the outcome. What happened to the father? The son? Does anyone know?
“This thread is still running?!”
It’s old but I just did a search for “spanking” because I was looking for a place to buy “The Rod”. The article was interesting and the comments were even more interesting.
As for the guy who got arrested, I guess I’m well trained by the Drive By Media. I Hear about something that makes me mad and don’t even bother deluding myself into thinking I’ll get a follow up story.
Welcome to 2 months ago. Freak.
Methinks this gentleman needs to hire two types of attorney: a criminal lawyer first, then a matrimonial practitioner!
“Welcome to 2 months ago. Freak.”
If we were standing face to face would you call me a freak?
I did a search for a subject I was interested in and found this article I noticed some posts that I agreed with and some I disagreed with. I chose to reply. The fact the article was two months ago is irrelevant. The debate still exists.
You searched for what, spanking? Pervert.
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