Maybe? Is assault legal where you come from? Because that's exactly what he did.
And as far as I know, assault is illegal in every state.
I’ll let God judge him.
When I read these reports, I don’t place much veracity in the implied details. IMHO, too much speculation.
Also where I have mentioned possible defense situations, I have witnessed comments by those who have already firmly cast their judgment and wish not to discern.
It strikes me that those accusing the father all have conflicts of interest in the matter and on a ski slope in this situation, their might not be any witnesses for the defendant.
The actions described of the defendant seem consistent with the protective reactions of a father who perceived his son’s safety was at stake.
Neither the ski slope operators nor the prosecutor’s office appear to find any fault whatsoever with the teen, but the teen crashed into the little boy.
If a car crashes into another on the freeway, and the two responsible operators get out and happen to throw a punch, the guy throwing the punch might be charged with assault, but the person who caused the crash isn’t innocent of causing the crash.
I recognize everybody wants to hang the father for holding down the girl, then punching her.
They may want to consider that on a ski slope, a hit and run accident is very common and finding the same person responsible for the crash is likely to be impossible.
Anyway, that’s just how I see it. I don’t find it black and white at all other than all the punitive actions are beeing lumped on a father who appears to have been defending his son, while the person crashing into him is not only not found guilty of anything, but now being allowed to determine part of the punitive action against the father whose son she had initially assaulted, intentionally or not.