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Old 10-09-2014, 04:39 PM
 
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Why is it that the football player in Montgomery county was charged with child abuse for leaving a mark when disciplining his child but it seems to be OK for a school in near-by Jasper county to leave a mark when disciplining someone else's child?
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Old 10-09-2014, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Who Cares, USA
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Why is it that the football player in Montgomery county was charged with child abuse for leaving a mark when disciplining his child but it seems to be OK for a school in near-by Jasper county to leave a mark when disciplining someone else's child?
Because Montgomery county is more civilised than Jasper county?
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Old 10-10-2014, 06:59 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte
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If the school was given permission to paddle by the parent, it is acceptable. However, from the photos, what AP did to the kid was more than 'just leaving a mark'. Different circumstances.
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Old 10-10-2014, 08:24 PM
 
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If the school was given permission to paddle by the parent, it is acceptable. However, from the photos, what AP did to the kid was more than 'just leaving a mark'. Different circumstances.
I'm sure you can give yourself permission to discipline a child. A big bruise from a paddle would seem to be similar to welts from a switch. A paddle hurts more, but a switch stings.
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Old 10-11-2014, 05:59 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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I am also baffled as to why AP was charged with injury to a child. Corporal punishment is completely legal in the state of TX as long as it does not cause "serious bodily injury".

Do I agree with what AP did? No. But it is not illegal.
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Old 10-11-2014, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Rockport Texas from El Paso
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Criminal laws are the same in all 254 counties. Counties do not make their own Penal Code.

Different law enforcement agencies have slightly different policies or priorities in what cases they will purse. Sometimes it may be jail overcrowding sometimes it may be too full a docket.

Withing any one department officers see things differently.

The facts in each case are never EXACTLY the same. The size of the assailant and victim , the past history of the parent and child, the way they acted when authorities interviewed them and what witnesses said all play a crucial part.

How busy the officers are.

Whether they like that football team....

In family law clients when there is a custody order and they ask "Will the police enforce it?" I tell them it depends on which officer they consult.


One definitely can not stereotype or generalize based on one or even a few incidents. Montgomery County is extremely diverse from Houston Suburbs to tiny rural town in the North.
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