Dad Won't Face Charges in Alleged Attacker's Death

[mari&Ryan 93]

Dad Won't Face Charges in Alleged Attacker's Death

By PAUL J. WEBER and RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press

SHINER, Texas June 19, 2012 (AP)

A young Texas father who beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-year-old daughter will not be charged, authorities said Tuesday, as they released a dramatic 911 tape of the dad frantically pleading to send help before the man died.

A Lavaca County grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict the 23-year-old father in the death of Jesus Mora Flores, 47, who was killed June 9 on a family ranch so remote that the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't locate the property.

"Come on! This guy is going to die on me!" the father yells in the 911 tape. "I don't know what to do."

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.

The Associated Press is not identifying the father in order to protect the daughter's identity. The AP does not identify victims of sexual assault.

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.

http://abcnews.go.co...12#.T-DzkitYuJk

[mari&Ryan 93]

Grand jury: No indictment against father who killed daughter's alleged abuser

By Nick Valencia, CNNupdated 5:32 PM EDT, Tue June 19, 2012

(CNN) -- A Lavaca County, Texas, grand jury did not return an indictment against a father who killed a man he found allegedly sexually abusing his daughter, officials said Tuesday at a press conference in Hallettsville, Texas.

"The substantial amount of evidence showed that the witness statements and the father's statement and what the father had observed was in fact what had happened that day," Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn told reporters.

The father, who will not be charged, is not being named by CNN to protect the identity of his daughter.

The father called 911, and he and his family tried to "save the life" of alleged attacker Jesus Mora Flores "despite what they had just witnessed," McMinn added.

Authorities said Flores, 47, was an acquaintance of the family, known for his horse-grooming abilities.

According to the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office, the father and his family were enjoying a barbecue last Saturday at their ranch where they keep horses and chickens.

His 5-year-old daughter had gone off toward the barn, to feed the chickens, the child's grandfather told CNN affiliates KSAT and KPRC.

Then her father heard screaming and ran. He found a man sexually abusing his daughter, according to Sheriff Micah Harmon.

The father stopped the alleged abuser, and then pounded him repeatedly in the head, killing him, authorities said.

On the recorded 911 call, the father can be heard crying, and telling the operator, "I need an ambulance. This guy was raping my daughter and I beat him up. And I don't know ... I don't know what to do."

Later in the call, when the operator tells the caller, "I'm working on it if you can hold on," the emotional father says, "The guy's dying on me!"

Neither officials nor the family's attorney, V'Anne Huser, took questions from reporters but Huser said in light of the grand jury's decision, "in our opinion, today, the story is over."

The incident occurred outside the town of Shiner, a community between Houston and San Antonio that has about 2,000 people within its city limits and another 1,500 or so on its outskirts, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/19/us/texas-abuser-father/index.html

Edited June 19, 2012 by mari&Ryan

[Karee 4,190]

I'm glad the father isn't being charged.

[SMOKE 1,426]

I'm glad the father isn't being charged.

X2

[mari&Ryan 93]

I'm glad the father isn't being charged.

I'm so very glad too the Grand jury didn't return a charge. I for one believe Justice was served twice in this case. May God brings peace to everyone involved.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Sounds like a good outcome to me as well. Where do I turn in my leftist credentials?

[Karee 4,190]

Sounds like a good outcome to me as well. Where do I turn in my leftist credentials?

Paul or Kip will be around shortly to collect them.

[aaron2020 11,651]

IMHO, the child rapist got what he deserved. He's actually lucky that he didn't end in general population at a Texas state prison. Child rapists are the lowest form of life in prison. Even other criminals find them to be [your choice of offensive word].

No way is any prosecutor going to charge dad with anything; especially in Texas. Sometimes, Lone Star justice is appropriate.

[Darnell 8,478]

Cool. It's Over. Done. No More shilly-shallying about with these wonderful 'what if' scenarios or futher blatherings on 'what you would have done'. Yay. <EOM>

[Danno 1,228]

Anyone who has even been involved in crime knows that "it's a gamble".... you do "X" knowing A. you could be arrested or B. something going wrong.

He lost the gamble.

Edited June 20, 2012 by Danno

[aaydrian 479]

****confetti + fire crackers****

[james&olya 1,121]

Cool. It's Over. Done. No More shilly-shallying about with these wonderful 'what if' scenarios or futher blatherings on 'what you would have done'. Yay. <EOM>

No. For this father and his daughter it will never be over. There were no winners here!

[unlockingsky 94]

:thumbs:

[lostinblue 1,989]

No. For this father and his daughter it will never be over. There were no winners here!

WRONG.... The winners are all the other children this man never went on to molest.

[james&olya 1,121]

WRONG.... The winners are all the other children this man never went on to molest.

i suppose that is one bright spot. Still such a horrible tragedy for everyone involved!