Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Father Who Beat To Death Man He Caught defiling His 5yr Old Daughter Won’t Face Charges
A Texas father
who discovered a
man defiling his five-year-old daughter and beat him to
death with his bare hands will not be charged with
homicide under state law.
A Lavaca County grand jury decided not to press charges
against the 23-year-old father in the June 9th death of Jesus
Mora Flores, 47, who was killed inside a remote shack after
he was caught molesting the young girl.
Under Texas state law, deadly force is authorized and
indeed, justified in order to stop an aggravated s*xual
assault and coupled with the fact that the harrowing 911
calls made by the father back claims he even tried to save
the pedophile’s life led to the grand jury’s decision.
Lavaca County sheriff’s deputies said that the father, whose
name has not been released to protect the little girl’s
identity, sent her and her brother to feed the family’s
chickens.
The boy rushed back to tell his dad that someone had
grabbed his sister and taken her to a small secluded shack
and the father rushed towards his daughter’s screams and
arrived to find them both with their underwear off.
Flying into a rage, the father beat Flores unconscious, but
attempted to call 911 for the defiler after he had made sure
his daughter was safe.Sheriff Micah Harmon had said in
June that he was not willing to press charges against the
father, rather the case would be presented to a grand jury.
At the time, Harmon said that the man was ‘very
remorseful’ and didn’t know at the time he had killed
Flores.
‘You have a right to defend your daughter,’ Harmon told
CNN at the time. ‘The girl’s father acted in defense of his
third person. Once the investigation is completed we will
submit it to the district attorney who then submits it to the
grand jury, who will decide if they will indict him.’
Indeed, the father is heard profanely screaming at a
dispatcher who couldn’t locate the property.
Becoming increasingly frazzled, the father at one point tells
the dispatcher he’s going to put the man in his truck and
drive him to a hospital before sheriff’s deputies finally
arrive.V’Anne Huser, the father’s attorney, sternly told
reporters several times during a news conference at the
Lavaca County courthouse that neither the father nor the
family will ever give interviews.
‘He’s a peaceable soul,’ Huser said. ‘He had no intention to
kill anybody that day.’
The attack happened on the family’s ranch off a quiet, two-
lane county road between the farming towns of Shiner and
Yoakum.
Authorities say a witness saw Flores ‘forcibly carrying’ the
girl into a secluded area and then scrambled to find the
father. Running toward his daughter’s screams,
investigators said, the father pulled Flores off his child and
‘inflicted several blows to the man’s head and neck area.’
Emergency crews found Flores’ pants and underwear pulled
down on his lifeless body by the time they responded to the
911 call.The girl was taken to a hospital and examined, and
authorities say forensic evidence and witness accounts
corroborated the father’s story that his daughter was being
sexually molested.
‘Under the law in the state of Texas deadly force is
authorized and justified in order to stop an aggravated
s*xual assault or s*xual assault,’ District Attorney Heather
McMinn told reporters in June.
All the evidence provided by the sheriff’s department and
the Texas Rangers indicated that’s what was occurring
when the victim’s father arrived at the scene,’ she
said. Authorities said he expressed regret at the killing at
the time, and no evidence so far has led them to doubt his
story. The girl’s grandfather agreed it had been an accident.
‘My son. Sorry,’ the grandfather told the Victoria Advocate
in broken English. ‘It was an accident.’
Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon added: ‘He was very
remorseful. I don’t think it was his intent for the man to
die.’
Residents of the small Lavaca County town were largely in
support of the father, saying the victim deserved it.
Sonny Jaehne, a Shiner native, told the Victoria Advocate:
‘He got what he deserved, big time.
Friend Mark Harabis reiterated this: ‘I agree with him
totally. I would probably do worse.
‘The family will have to deal with that the rest of their
lives, no matter what happens to the father. Even if they let
him go, he and his child will have to deal with that the rest
of their lives.’
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