my 4yr old sister was playing with our neighbor Jada who is 6 at her house. my sister came home screaming to my dad that Jada step dad was hitting Jada again (he hits Jada mum too).
My dad went to their house, stopped the step dad, took him outside & beat him.
The other neighbors called the police & told my dad it is none of his business. My dad said he is tired of that man beating on Jada & her mom & the police do nothing.
The step dad does'nt live there anymore.
Is what my dad did good or bad?
2007-09-30 14:52:05 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My dad told my sister not to go there & he has rung the police before but my dad said Jada mum too scared to tell the police anything.
I love my dad.
2007-09-30 15:20:46 · update #1
What he did was good and bad- it's not a simple answer.
The other man was a criminal who abused a child and her mother. When your dad stepped in, he stopped that abuse. He took it a little too far, because he was angry. It would be better if he hadn't beaten the man up. But as you said,the police weren't helping, and that man was getting away with what he did. It probably made your dad really angry to see women and children treated that way, and he lost his temper. So what he did is pretty understandable.
If I were a judge or jury, I wouldn't send your dad to jail for beating the stepdad up- I would say that he was provoked and that what he did was justifiable. I might give him a suspended sentence: say that if he did it again, he'd be in trouble; but for now, he's not.
2007-09-30 15:11:42 · answer #1 · answered by ThatGirl 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, there are certain times that beating the **** out of somebody may be the only answer, but i think maybe this could be handled better, the police usually respond as lond as the wife is ready to file charges, and social services would love to hear about a 6 year old being beaten, the correct response to me would have been to call social services and file a report (take pictures of the injuries if possible) so the mother is forced to either leave the shithead or loose custody of her child. technically they guy deserved an ass whooping as long as your dads information was not damaged by manipulation, however it is not wise to start picking fights with other people due to the fact that it can have legal penalties associated with it.
2007-09-30 14:59:12 · answer #2 · answered by Seargent Gork 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even though that man deserved the beating your dad gave him, he can't go over and just assult the man. But the neighbors are wrong that is none of his business, once he knew that that man was beating the child he can't just sit there and do nothing, he needs to call the police, and the mother, need to take her child and get out of that environment. I was in an abusive relationship before I met my husband, and I know that it can be hard to leave, but once you do it, you will never regret you did.
2007-09-30 15:05:02 · answer #3 · answered by Brittany 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is good that he took action to protect others.
The action that he took was not good.
Your neighbors are wrong. It is all our business to protect those that are weaker than us. Not to pry and snoop and pass judgment over others' lifestyles, but to be aware of when others need our help.
I do not know the history of what has happened, so it is hard for me to comment, but I would have thought it would have been better if your father had called the police and intervened to stop the violence. Your family could provide a place of safety to the girl and her mother without having to resort to the same action that the step-father is guilty of.
2007-09-30 15:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't judge if what your dad did is good or bad. I can mention the other alternatives. Why did he not call the police when Jada came to tell him? Violence only begets more violence.
Maybe your dad could give information to Jada's mom for a battered woman's shelter.
2007-09-30 14:57:03 · answer #5 · answered by justanotherone 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is impossible to judge right and wrong without being present, because there are so many variables. Rioght & wrong in a legal sense changes from location to location. Where I live, the neighbors would have applauded anyone who stopped the injury of a child... but would also stop anyone who attempted to interfere with parental discipline.
This is a situation usually best left to the social services authorities in the US & EU.
2007-09-30 14:59:05 · answer #6 · answered by brother_roger_osl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your Dad seems to have had enough of a terrible situation and he took it in his hands. He may have saved Jada or the mother life.
2007-09-30 15:03:05 · answer #7 · answered by lucy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think he has a huge set...if you know what I mean. It takes a real man to step into the middle of something like that. And I feel that it is his business especially since your sis was over at the house when it happened. Too many ppl just look the other way these days. Good for him.
2007-09-30 14:57:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think what your Dad did is good. Someone has to defend those who cannot defend themselves and that coward of a man deserves it! What type of man needs to beat on a little kid or a woman that are weaker than he is?! He is not a man at all. I think there should be more men like your Dad and maybe those child/wife beaters would knock their S**t off!!!
2007-09-30 14:58:58 · answer #9 · answered by mochachinna76 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your dad doing to halt the family harrashment is a good doing..But your father 's beating is a bad doing because he has no right to beat the step father .It is better if he reported it to the police and let the police to make a punisment to the cruel step father..
2007-09-30 15:17:22 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋