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Originally Posted by MDLNB
I agree that the article was lacking in detail. However, you seem to want to charge the grandfather with fault in the matter. You state that it would not have happened if the grandfather would have ignored a possible problem and took his child away, ignoring the fact that there were at least two other little children in the pool too. Don't get me wrong, he may have been culpable, but there is no indication that he was. There was charges against the other subject though. We can't rewrite the incident to suit our liberal feelings, against the written claims. We also can't take liberties with the information to form another totally unfounded scenario. But, conversation is interesting if not imaginative on here.
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I do not think I am taking liberty with the information just making the assumption that the Sumter County Sheriff's Office knows what it is doing. It did not charge the man with anything like making sexual advances on a minor. The grandfather charged into accusing the man without real evidence that he did anything wrong and the man got justifiably upset. Striking the grandfather is a criminal charge as is stealing the grandfather's cell phone. There probably would be other charges tacking on like evading arrest if this were not a situation where one hothead seems to have taken on another hothead. This is from the information Redwitch provided about the arguments at the pool heard by a TOTVer. I am a victim advocate as I have repeatedly said here since 2007 taking great risks with my career to improve victims' access to practical information accessible through or in libraries since January 1991 in my 224 613 Proejct. But, there is also common sense and accepting that most of the time the people involved in law enforcement investigations like this one, know exactly what they are doing. Try to empathize with each of the people in this real life drama. It sounds like the grandfather went way overboard protecting his grandchild. I do not have all the facts but assume that the Sumter County Sheriff's Office did a thorough investigation of this.
I will watch and see how this case is resolved. I do think that a good defense lawyer has a lot to work with in this one.