Posted on 11/13/2007 6:34:38 PM PST by SmithL
TAZEWELL - A child abuse case that one investigator called the worst he's seen in a 35-year career was sent to a Claiborne County grand jury today, charging a man with using electric shock dog collars to control his two teenage daughters and with raping both girls.
The man is being held on $1 million bond on charges of aggravated child abuse and two counts of rape.
The Claiborne County Sheriff's Department began investigating in September when one of the man's 18-year-old daughters reported abuse to a school official. His wife is charged with aggravated child neglect failing to report child abuse. She is free on bond.
The man, who is a dog trainer, is accused of repeatedly using shock collars on his teenage daughters' legs to control them. The collars were activated by a push-button radio controller. It's the type of collar used to train hunting dogs and is generally more powerful than anti-bark collars or perimeter shock collars.
The family has five children ranging in age from 11 to 19, and a 15-year-old brother testified that his sisters would scream, lay on the floor and repeatedly plead with their father to stop activating the collars. The family kept about 30 bird-hunting dogs, which it trained using the same collars.
The 18-year-old wept during her testimony, explaining that her father had been raping her since was 12 or 13 years old.
She said she decided to report it to a school officer on Sept. 10, after her father used the collar on her neck for the first time.
The girl testified she was afraid that her father would kill her. She said he pantomimed shooting her and himself if she told anyone about the abuse.
A state prosecutor said authorities have been unable to locate her 19-year-old sister.
Claiborne County Sheriff's Capt. Sam Nelson, who investigated the case, testified that he told the older girl that she could go to prison if she had been witness to the events while she was an adult.
Nelson called it the worst case of child abuse he'd seen in 35 years in law enforcement.
Today's hearing began at 9 a.m. and ended after noon.
The case is being prosecuted by assistant district attorneys general Amanda Sammons and Jared Effler of the 8th Judicial District.
The family's children, except for the missing 19-year-old, are in foster care.
The family is not being identified because the charges involve allegations of rape.
That story is from Sept 14.
They actually make shock collars with a 1/8" diameter...? ;)
This bastard needs to be outfitted with a bunch of these collars and thrown into a dammed bathtub full of water.
Actually, I do, in St Petersburg in the 70s.
Whatever is done to this animal, he needs to be kept alive for as long as possible while he suffers. He needs to see his death as a release which will come slowly. I’m not that interested in seeing him killed. I’m much more interested in knowing his breaking point.
Issue one of these collars to his new cellmate Bubba.
~They actually make shock collars with a 1/8” diameter...? ;)
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I am sure some of our handy-dandy freepers can rig it up to fit any size just fine!!!
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“Claiborne County Sheriff’s Capt. Sam Nelson, who investigated the case, testified that he told the older girl that she could go to prison if she had been witness to the events while she was an adult.”
Smart move Sam, I guess we know now why she disappeared. Besides, it would seem to me that all the kids were victims in one way or another, I’m sure they feared their sadistic father’s wrath. I can’t see how any of them could be held responsible for a crime.
Can we do that to that idiot, incompetent “sheriff” , too?
Dumbshit. He's a dumbshit. An utter dumbshit.
Actually he’ll look pretty good hanging from the scaffold! I do like a happy ending!!
The 18-year-old is an innocent victim but the 19-year-old is an accessory, just due to a one-year age difference? Idiotic.
No noose. Don’t want to get convicted of a hate crime while hanging the son of a bitch.
“On another note, when I saw the headline, I wondered, “Tennessee or Kentucky?”
And I was thinking Virginia.
Are you British?
but then I'd be accused of being racist.
I know of one small town cop who got to be a small town cop after he was fired from both fast food burger franchises in town.
I suppose, just for fun!!
No noose is good noose...
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