Posted on 09/12/2008 4:05:35 PM PDT by rawhide
A Deltona father ended up in jail Thursday after finding his daughter's teenage boyfriend naked in the girl's bedroom and hitting him with a pipe, sheriff's officials said.
Raul Colon, 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. So when he heard noises coming from his daughter's room early Thursday and saw a naked stranger standing on the girl's bed, he swung a metal pipe he had taken from the garage, hitting the 15-year-old, according to a Volusia County sheriff's report.
Colon was charged with aggravated battery on a child but was released from jail later Thursday on $10,000 bail, a booking officer said. No one answered the phone at Colon's residence Thursday for comment.
According to the report, Colon heard the noise in his daughter's room when he got up at 4 a.m. to let his dog out, as he does every morning.
Colon told deputies he chased Lucas Contreres through the kitchen, living room and through the front door and out into the street and called 9-1-1.
Colon's daughter later told deputies she had been seeing Contreres for 18 months but did not tell her father about the relationship. Contreres had sneaked in through a bedroom window at 3 a.m. Thursday to have sex with her, the 15-year-old girl told deputies.
Contreres was found at Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City where he received staples to close cuts on his head. His injuries were not life-threatening, deputies said.
Contreres told deputies a similar account to Colon's. He said Colon came into the room and started swinging at him with the metal pipe. He jumped out of the bed and began running through the home to get away from Colon. Once outside, he jumped on his bike and went home. His sister later took him to the hospital, deputies said.
Although Contreres' father said he wasn't sure whether he wanted to press charges, deputies took Colon to jail anyway.
Since the boy was also 15 I suppose you would like them both charged??
Please, spare me.
Go to Saudi Arabia - you'll find plenty.
In Saudi Arabia the girl would have been killed for disgracing the family.
If the kid lived — he’s lucky..
Next — the daughter needs some “attention”...
If this was my daughter and you were the boys father, you would be asking me to spare you. I doubt it would do much good though.
Actually, the boy was 15, as well; it’s not statutory, at least not by any statute I’ve ever seen. My guess is that even if he was 18 that this would still be considered legal, as most states allow a 3-year bumper.
I guess on a second reading that the guy is standing naked on the bed, which could be seen as a threatending posture. But if the daughter was awake and trying to defend her boyfriend, the guy has no excuse to go swinging a lead pipe around.
If the 15 year old is taking the pipe to the guys daughter, can’t Dad take the pipe to the 15 year old?
Something is not right about it.
The boy has committed a felony. It is called statutory rape.
There is no way the father can be convicted when he thought he was chasing a rapist, which in fact he was but a different level than he thought.
The sheriff should be the one in jail, with the boy in the adjacent cell.
“Yes, your Honor, I heard noises and found the deceased in my daughter’s bedroom sexually assaulting her. I shot him twice in the chest, and he fell onto the floor mortally wounded, but still moving, so — out of Christian compassion — I put a third shot between his eyes to put him out of his misery.”
If I was defendant’s counsel, I’d be asking for a jury trial.
I grew up on a small farm. (cows, goats, pigs, chickens, etc.)
Trust me, you don’t have to be a veterinarian.
A 15 year old doesn't have the right to invite anyone without her parents consent. What the father did was the minimum.
15 year old boy and 15 year old girl. I think most fathers with any sense would know what was going on. But I can understand his rage at both of them. I certainly would not shoot and kill a boy for having sex with my daughter. Upset - yes; kill - no.
similar situation but involved our wonderful cattle dog. very satisfying. Afterwords, the dog wouldn’t come out from under the table for a full day. But when he needed to, he did what he had to do.
I would have done the same if I saw a naked stranger in my daughter's bedroom!
Hope he got a swing at his promiscuous daughter...
NO.
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