Man Accused Of Beating Son Over Game Of Hopscotch Suing His Accusers

I do too. It’s a gd damn shame that when a man wants to take care of his kids … And be a good father , A dumb ass bitch has to make him out to be a bad guy. We need more dads like him out there , then maybe there wouldn’t be so many asshole kids out there !!

one of the many reasons i will not be having kids.

I remember this story being a flame war. I don’t believe he was abusive and I think his ex deserves what ever she gets for using the kids in the divorce!

If he really is being falsley accused I hope he is able to get out from under the heap of shit that’s been thrown on him. It’s difficult to decide though, just from a news story. And while I don’t personally agree with spanking kids, I don’t think

If he can’t get a job teaching, he should seriously consider renting out his forehead (which is more like a fivehead) for billboard advertising.

No shit, or at least powder that nagging noggin; the light reflecting off his fivehead is blinding.

i saw an interview on headline news with this ass clown he admitted striking this 5 year old with a belt.i don’t feel sorry for him. years ago the supreme court ruled that it was child abuse to use a belt.at his size there was no need to use a belt on a 5 yr old, a hand would have been sufficient and isn’t illegal i might add.you would think if he was smart he’d tuck his tail between his legs and run away.apparently he isn’t very smart.i hope the charges are brought again because i’m sure there have been other instances as well

Regardless of how each parent feels about the use of a belt in a spanking, as long as he didn’t go overboard and beat the kid all over, meaning he kept it on the rump he really did nothing wrong. In fact I honestly think SOME kids these days do need a belt taken to their rears. Hands don’t always get that sting that it takes to get their attention, some kids actually LAUGH at hand spankings (how is it a punishment or going to teach a kid whats acceptable and what isn’t, if the punishment amuses the kid?) and perhaps if more parents DID spank we wouldn’t see kids on the news for stealing, raping, or murdering each other.

I grew up with spankings and yes I even had a belt used on me a few times, it was not a beating and I completely deserved it when I got it. And guess what? I turned out into a perfectly responsible, healthy adult that doesn’t steal from others, I haven’t killed anyone and I don’t abuse children. Just because it isn’t YOUR chosen method doesn’t mean it’s wrong or abuse as a punishment.

I’m not aware of any such Supreme Court ruling. Is this your state’s Supreme Court, or are you suggesting this was a Federal ruling?

Sorry, I guess that came out as me attacking you personally. I was more attacking the method of reasoning. I know that what I said was torture, but some people may not see it that way. I’m just saying that “just because it isn’t YOUR chosen method doesn’t mean it’s wrong” shouldn’t be used to justify this sort of thing ever, because child abusers can think the same thing. Also, I’m kind of thinking that some people (abusers) use belts, hands as an easy way out of actual discipline…

Now these people hearing other people in their communities/media/etc say “oh that kid wouldn’t have done xxx if his parents have hit him with a belt” are getting encouragement to just beat there kid. Of course the soundbytes don’t say “if he would have gotten beaten by a belt, after all other methods of punishment had failed …”

Maybe spanking should be outlawed just so we can send abusive people to jail for a lot less. I’m sure it would save some kids lives. I’m not sure if more or less lives would be ruined by the kids that were spoiled due to no spanking, but I know for a fact it is possible to raise a happy, well adjusted kid without spanking. I may have not been able to do it, but I know there’s some method out there to doing it.

We don’t let grownups hit each other, why should we let grownups hit 5 year-olds? Just bringing that up for discussion. Not saying anybody is wrong for it, I spanked my kids a few times, my parents spanked me (which only made me more enraged). a lot of the time my logic is pretty flawed to. Disclaimer: my logic may be flawed.

“We don’t let grownups hit each other, why should we let grownups hit 5 year-olds?”

What, you don’t think it’s much more acceptable to hurt tiny defenceless people who are totally dependent upon adults for their care and wellbeing?

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Read the following, y’all. From http://www.fox19.com/global/story.asp?s=13028570

“Robison, a teacher at Camp Ernst Middle School, had pled not guilty. He admitted to spanking his son, but said the boy was not seriously injured or crippled.

Boone County Circuit Judge Michael Collins dropped the felony charge against Robison during a pretrial hearing on Monday morning. In a rare move, Judge Collins gave Robinson the option to testify.

“I always put the buckle and loops in my hand and then fold it over, then bring my hand back and swat,” Robison said, explaining how he hit his son.

The lead detective read what the boy told her during an interview.

“He said he spanked him two times, then a lot of times, then made him go back out and try again,” said Det. Tracy Watson with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department.

Robison’s attorney, Eric Deters, said his client’s spanking hadn’t caused bruises before, and there’s no way to prove the marks on the boy’s backside and thigh didn’t come from a fall at the swimming pool days before.

Judge Collins agreed and couldn’t find probable cause for the case to move on.

“I think abuse is excessive but it doesn’t raise to that level,” said Judge Collins.

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I have to say, in my opinion, hitting kids with belts and calling it spanking=lack of credibility, to begin with. I also see no indication that the wife DIDN’T have cause to think stripes on his legs/butt were caused by the belt. And this guy’s own lawyer had nothing more definitive to say in Robinson’s defense other than that there was NO WAY TO PROVE the marks didn’t come from a fall in pool. I also note that Judge Michael Collins found the “abuse” to be “excessive,” just not FELONIOUS (the same conclusion the cops came to earlier upon learning just how often Christopher Robison smacks his son with a belt and doles out other excessive punishments, OFTEN for his son’s failure to meet his standards in various physical exercises including but not limited to hopscotch); the judge did tell prosecutors, by the way, that they could refile the case as a misdemeanor or present it to a grand jury.

Sorry, I don’t know what to think about the mom, but I definitely don’t like Christopher Robison. What I am reading now confirms all that I remembered reading from before, and who the hell hits a kid with a belt because the kid starts lipping off about not wanting to keep hopping around on one foot when he’s been told he’s not doing it well enough? I see some comments on this thread about what a wonderful dude he is. Do some research, people. He actually pretty much sucks. The mom might suck, too, I don’t know, but I don’t like this guy at all.

Yeah I think he sucks donkey balls, since the boy told detectives he not only got hit with a belt over not hopscotching well enough, but also gets hit with a belt for not swimming well enough, not catching a ball well enough, and not walking on a balance beam well enough. And he also told detectives that his dad told him not to tell his mom that he gets hit with a belt. Yep, I am remembering perfectly well now exactly why I think this guy is such a suckhole of a dad.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100823/NEWS010704/308230065/Charge-dismissed-against-teacher-in-hopscotch-beating-case

Christopher Robison always contended that spanking his son wasn’t a felony crime. On Monday a judge agreed with the Union father of two.

Collins, who saw pictures of the bruises, said that, although he agreed that the abuse was excessive, he did not believe it was a Class C felony.

Robison’s attorney, Eric Deters, said that if the case had been sent to grand jury any Boone County parent who spanked their child and left a bruise could be arrested, charge with criminal abuse and face 5 to 10 years in prison.

“We can’t be criminalizing and micro-parenting in our court system,” Deters said after the hearing. “Chris is a tough disciplinarian, but he’s not a criminal.”

Robison, 46, who shares custody of the boy and his 8-year-old sister with his ex-wife, testified that he is strict with the children because he feels his wife is too lenient.

Robison said his son had begun to talk back, saying “I don’t have to do that, you can’t make me. Mommy told me I don’t have to listen to you. ”

Robison testified that he spanked his son twice on the Fourth of July, first because the boy refused to clean his room and second after he argued with Robison about hopping around the cul-de-sac.

Boone County Sheriff’s detective Tracy Watson testified that she was called by the state Cabinet for Children and Families after the boy’s mother took him to Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati because of the bruises. Hospital staff noted that the bruises were “concerning and probable abuse,” Watson testified.

Watson reviewed the hospital records, interviewed the children, their mother and Robison. The boy told her he was spanked because he could not hop around the cul-de-sac on one foot, she said.

Deters asked Watson if she thought spanking a child with a belt is “cruel punishment,” as defined by the statute.

“In the ordinary sense of a parent disciplining a child, it would not be,” she said. “In this case, yes.”

Watson also described how Robison trains his children to swim properly, walk on a balance beam and catch a ball.

“In some of the things described to me, it’s cruel and unusual,” Watson said. “Some of the disciplines I think personally are not appropriate.”

The boy also told the detective that he gets spanked if he gets in trouble at school and if he doesn’t swim well while practicing. She also said the boy said his dad told him not to tell his mother that he gets spanked.

“This is just something I want to go away so we can get on with whatever normal life is,” Robison said.

Boone County Schools Superintendent Randy Poe said the district is conducting its own investigation as to whether Robison’s conduct was unbecoming of a teacher. In the meantime, Robison has been reassigned from his teaching duties.

yes it was on the federal level a bunch of kids were taken from their families because they were spanking them at church with belts.there was some more to it if i remember correctly like dropped pants but the ruling came down that yes spanking was ok but not with a belt and no where but the buttocks.it was in the 90′s i’m sure you could google it.i remember bits of the case but i know more about the no belt rule because i’m a foster parent.either way this guy is huge and the kid was sooo small there was no reason he needed a belt to get his point accrossed

This guy makes me sick and I hope he loses his kids. Spanking with a belt enough to cause bruises = child abuse.

I am not against spanking with a belt. I got that treatment when I was a child. But to me doing it because one can’t do something well enough is not right.

Thank you for this information. The father clearly needs to learn some patience.