Crime

California Official Arrested: Video Captures Him Beating Young Stepson

KTLA-TV:

An Imperial Valley water agency director has been arrested after he was allegedly caught on video beating his stepson over a game of catch.

The video shows a man playing a game of catch with his young stepson. The boy drops the ball, and that’s when the man, identified by authorities as Anthony Sanchez, begins whipping him with a belt.

Neighbor Oscar Lopez shot the video Wednesday morning from inside his home. After a minute, Lopez can be heard on the tape telling Sanchez to stop.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:23pm

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    Stepparents can be a child’s worst nightmare.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:20pm

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    Thank God, the neighbor got involved.
    It’s the best gift anyone could have given this child.

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    • Sparky77
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:58pm

      Yes, thank God the neighbor reported this since the government does not yet have their swarms of drones flying around our neighborhoods to identify parental behavior that has not been approved by the central authority. Once we are all being protected by government drones, this kind of heroism will no longer be necessary to ensure parental compliance with behavior found to be beneficial to the collective. And now that several jurisdictions are planning to arm their drones, they will be able to just terminate parents on the spot rather than our having to spend great sums of money to prosecute them.

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    • Conservative2
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:18pm

      Then it’s alright for your Neighbor to violate your privacy too? It’s ok for the neighbor to tape you with out your permission just because he has a vantage point above your Fence to be able to spy on you?

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    • Sparky77
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:01am

      Conservative2 — Oscar Lopez wansn’t spying, he was just doing the work that Americans won’t do. As soon as we have the drones swarming around, Oscar won’t have to be troubled with such heroism anymore.

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    • burnteye86
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:05am

      CONSERVATIV2, I guess we know which side of the fence you‘re on don’t we?

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:16pm

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    People, stop beating on your kids. Not all kids are good at sports. Stop living your dreams through your kids.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:03am

      Yea, beating him to teach him how to play ball is really going to make him enjoy it, isn’t it? As to the comments about invading his privacy, he was OUTSIDE his home, in public view and had no reasonable expectation of privacy since the neighbor’s house was obviously a 2 story house. If you want to beat your kid (or step-kid), take him inside where no one can see you do it. (And obviously I don’t condone beating your kid in doors, either.)

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  • JaneGraves
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 7:38pm

    Apparently, you condone this sort of bullying beat down because you have yourself used it and feel the need to defend such behavior. That’s the only reason I could think of that you would post such ridiculous nonsense. “Discipline” is to be used for behavior that is inappropriate. If you believe that being berated, shamed, bullied and scourged with a belt should somehow be viewed by us as bible discipline then help is definitely needed for you. Dropping a ball while playing catch is not what the bible was referring to when admonishing parents not to spoil their children.

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    • Sparky77
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:32pm

      JaneGraves – You don’t need to resort to a pesonal attack. We should be able to just intellectually discuss this matter, I would think?

      Sparky77

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    • Conservative2
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:16pm

      Cast that stone Jane!

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    • JaneGraves
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:36pm

      Sparky, it wasn’t a personal attack at all. It was my intellectual observation and discernment of your comments regarding a helpless child being whipped with a belt. This has nothing to do with government intervention in our parenting. It has everything to do with a man seeing a child being victimized by a STEP-dad and thankfully acting on that. If the step dad pulls this sort of thing in his back yard, I don’t think I want to know what was being done to this child IN the house. This has nothing to do with government at all and everything to do with protecting the innocent.

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    • Sparky77
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 12:12am

      JaneGraves — Your attack was in fact a personal attack. Suggesting that the reason that I was interjecting some reason into the hysteria was that I had engaged in such behavior and so felt compelled to defend it, was, actually, a personal, and baseless I might ad, attack.

      I believe, and please correct me if I am wrong, that the two bases for your argument are:

      1. Spanking = ‘beating’ = ‘felony child abuse’.
      2. The state, comprised of the collective, should be able to determine what is & what is not behavior for which it is permissible for parents to discipline their children.

      Regardless of whether or not this parent was justified in what he did in this case, which I do not believe he was, I would argue that to interject the state between parent & child in this case is extremely dangerous. Also interestingly, I wonder what sort of response I would get if I called the requisite government agency to report my neighbor for actual felony child abuse like abortion, sending their children to government school, or allowing their children to watch TV?

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  • NYINDY
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 6:35pm

    Sparky 77, THAT IS NOT SPANKING!!! hitting a child with a belt is abuse period….It doesn’t matter the reason.

    We have to be careful and not fall into “group think” on all matters where government enters our lives. I am as conservative as the next guy, but laws are made to protect people, especially the young and innocent.

    This man deserves to be charged and punished and the neighbor heralded as a good man.

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  • Sparky77
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 2:26pm

    A quote comes to mind: “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security”. Benjamin Franklin

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    • minorityconservative2
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:28am

      Whatever dude! This is abuse and if someone sees abuse they should report it whether it is in a private home or on the street. So if a crime is happening inside a house we should ignore it? I hate to see how a child of yours might come out. If you think it is ok to beat a kid with a belt for dropping a ball you are nuts. I spanked my kids when they were little, but not for things that were accidents and certainly not for playing a game badly. Wow you are looney.

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    • Sparky77
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:28pm

      minorityconservative2 — I have a friend who is an older German who fled Berlin in the aftermath of WWII as a youth. He has always contened that a country gets the government that it deserves. Reading through the blog entries on this story, including yours, I now have absolutely no doubt that he is right.

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  • Sparky77
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 2:05pm

    Felony child abuse for a man spanking his son? And Beck takes a side by terming this ‘beating’?

    If I am to believe what I am reading here in the comments, it appears that a majority of Beck followers believe the state is better equipped to raise children than are parents.

    I’m a little shocked, but not by the video.

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    • DeathRattle
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 5:00pm

      Spark what was he “spanking” his son for? If you look at this video and decide for yourself what this stepfather did is ok than you are the one that is shocking. I believe parents should be able to spank their kids, what this man did is not covered by what I as a parent call a legitimate spanking. He was hitting this child during a game of “catch” for what?….. what would you say the child could’ve done for the belting he deserved? There are too many crappy step parents out there, and there are a lot of damn good ones, this guy is the former in my opinion.
      No I don‘ believe the state is more competent than I as a parent but in this case there is always an exception to the rule isn’t there. Leaving this kid to go through more of this is not worth it.

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    • EthanSabo
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 6:31pm

      Are you an idiot? The child dropped the ball playing catch the father beats the crap out of him with a belt…. therefore what you‘re saying is that if your child doesn’t become what you want him or her to become it’s better to just beat the hell out of them with a belt? You’re a genius The man should go to jail, and stay there for a while, and rethink how to parent a child.

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    • gbfreak
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 6:41pm

      I don’t care what your belief is in discipline. This kid dropped a ball….and he needs disciplined? This is pure abuse. It is felony child abuse. What would happen if this kid REALLY did something wrong?

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    • Sparky77
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:08pm

      Guys, you’re missing the point here. The father is going to tried on felony child abuse charges because he spanked his son. You think that is okay because you think that the father should not have spanked his son for this reason. I happen to agree that he should not have spanked his son for this reason, however, what you are saying is that your neighbor can decided what you should & should not be able to spank your children for. You are not saying that a parent should not be able to beath their child — striking them with a club is what comes to mind when the word ‘beating’ is used, but you are saying that you should be able to decide what is and what is not a permissable reason for your neighbor to discipline their child. If the father is convicted, he is not going to be convicted for having spanked his child for the wrong reason but rather he will be convicted for spanking with some perverted view of the law that spanking = felony child abuse.

      Do you really think that the spanking = ‘felony child abuse’ = ‘beating’ crowd cares why you as a parent spanked your child?

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    • minorityconservative2
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:35am

      I get what you are saying because no one can tell me not to spank my kid when they need it. I have heard of people getting the cops called on them for spanking a child. Your logic still is flawed. What he did was abuse. He has no idea you don’t spank for dropping a ball. What kind of punishment will he give when the child disobeys him? What will he get if he talks back? A punch? Then where are we at. He deserves to be prosecuted. The child did nothing wrong.

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  • seniorveteran
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:15pm

    I’ve raised three kids and helped raise 9 grandchildren and I have to tell you no one has the right to hit their kid more than one swat to the butt with an open hand. Anything more than that is abuse. That guy on the tape was just using the game of catch as an excuse for his sadism.

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  • spysea
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:08pm

    looking forward to when this guy (while in prison) gets …… raped

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:05pm

    I’m glad the jerk got caught on tape. There is not disputing the truth when it’s right before your eyes. That poor kid! Good for the neighbor for getting involved!

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  • Conservative2
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:58pm

    What the hell is wrong with you so called Christians, self righteous people, going to be the first to cast that stone and Judge some one for doing What the Bible tells you to do as parents, discipline their children? The PC police have gotten to too many in our society, to the point that we don’t even pay attention to the Bible teachings any more. You 20s, 30s and 40s somethings have no idea how parental discipline works because the PC police introduced themselves in the early 70s. For those older, ask your parents and grandparents what discipline was back then. We didn’t raise kids with damaged self esteem, those disciplined children grew up respecting their elders, respected other peoples views, yes that’s right the WWII generation of parents that gave birth to the Baby boomers.
    When we grew up as kids, we didn’t dare talk back to our parents, cause problems in school. We didn’t have all the so called Safety gear, bicycle helmets, knee-pads, car seat belts as the government wasn’t intruding into the rights of parents, we wouldn’t accept that. Because of that hard self discipline passed onto the baby boomers, they were responsible for the most advancements this country has ever seen to date! Their self esteem wasn’t damaged, their schooling and work ethic was one of the best ever seen in this country’s past! Then the PC police crept in! Discipline now is dead, kids having arguments kill each other, simply pull out the 9mm and fire, that’s how they solve it now, N

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    • rochesterruler
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 2:23pm

      If my kid did something illegal broke a window stole something or told my wife no she won’t do this. Then i can see a swat on the ass. But because he doesn’t have the motor skills to catch a ball is just sickening. So leave your BS at the door. I’m all for a spanking when justified.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 4:42pm

      I am a 30-something raising a son, who is 10 years old. I only ever had to raise my hand to his behind once, and only then because I caught him doing something very dangerous and refused my order to stop. He is a straight-A student, is perfectly behaved in class, a very sweet young man and never caused any problems, in discipline or otherwise, for me. You want to tell me again how I have no idea how to discipline my child?

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    • EthanSabo
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 6:32pm

      Oh shut up. The man beat his child for dropping a ball. That’s child abuse.

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    • john141714
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 6:45pm

      CONSERVATIVE2 Are you a moron? Just asking because your reply sure make you sound like one. Do you believe there is a difference between beating your kid for not throwing a ball the right way and beating ( and I say beating meaning a spanking not a beating) and for disobeying you or mouthing off to you your wife or an adult? There is a big difference and what this man did he should be arrested and charged. If you think different you are a Moron.

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    • pastormike09
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:06am

      Conservative2,
      I am a husband, a father, a Pastor and live in the Imperial Valley where this occurred. The Bible does not teach parents to beat their children. The Bible teaches discipline not child abuse. It teaches that giving your child a swat when they do something wrong is a way to discipline your child. However, what this child did was far from wrong, he dropped the baseball, and what his step-father did is far from discipline. This 6 year old boy is ruthlessly beat because he could not catch a baseball and that is wrong. As a child I was beat ruthlessly by my father. I received beatings that make this one look tame. As a father I have vowed never to beat my children; it is a commitment and a promise that I have made before God, my wife and my children. There is never a reason to strike a child this hard or in this manner. This is not about the “PC Police”, it is about right and wrong. Showing this video causes awareness and that is good. A simple swat is one thing; beating your children is wrong. Pray for this child as he must overcome this abuse. I am in my late twenties and I still have not overcome the mental, physical and emotional damage that is a result of the beatings I received as a child. The scars remain and many times must faced on a daily basis. This child has a long road of healing ahead of him and he needs prayer. His mother needs prayer for direction and wisdom. His stepfather needs prayer for repentance and change.

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    • minorityconservative2
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:37am

      You are a loon! The bible does not teach to beat kids for playing a game badly. Willful disobedience is a reason, but not dropping a ball.

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  • FreedomPurveyor
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:35pm

    Not saying I agree with his disciplinary tactics, and certainly not his reason for using them, but it is kind of pathetic that hitting your kid with a belt falls under felony child abuse these days.

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    • Conservative2
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:07pm

      This Mans civil rights have been violated, he is at his own residence in the privacy of his domain. He has a right to this privacy and not to be taped in this privacy. He should sue his neighbor for posting this online! Yes when does it become a felony to be disciplining your child? It’s NOT abuse, abuse would be continuous whipping with the belt, not a few smacks. He was only trying to gain the FULL attention of this child and make a man out of him, but in our PC society the Nanny-state we’ve been led to believe it is abuse, it’ll harm his self esteem, BS!

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 4:51pm

      FREEDOMPURVEYOR — I don’t think it was so much that he hit his son with the belt, but he appears to do it multiple times and for the reason he was punishing his son. It was not for any disciplinary reasons, but that his son made a simple mistake, all because the self-centered step-father does not want to be embarrassed by his son dropping a ball during a game. That is abusive.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 6:56pm

      CONSERVATIVE2 — you are using the same excuses that child abusers have always hid behind and used to justify their abuse. Yes, one has a right to discipline their child, physically if NECESSARY, but they have no right to abuse their child. Nor does one have a right to privacy when they are harming someone, especially a child, regardless if they are on their own property.

      This is clearly abuse. He was not disciplining the child. He was beating a small child for making a common mistake because he, being a self-centered adult, does not want to be embarrassed by the child dropping a ball during a game. He is not teaching the child how to catch a ball; you don’t teach someone a ball sport by hitting them. What he is teaching the child is that physical violence is okay when someone is angering you, or even for a simple mistake.

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    • minorityconservative2
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:41am

      The child’s civil rights have been violated.

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  • Helaman
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:35pm

    @bockvl You don’t have to watch the video, that is your right. But the truth is the truth and if you don’t like the truth then keep voting for Obummer. If things like this are not exposed, how do we learn from mistakes? How do we teach or kids and break the cycle of abuse? If we don’t teach and show our children what is wrong, how will they know what is right? This video clearly makes an impression to the viewer, and hopefully will send the message that this activity is wrong.

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  • reportanddeport
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:28pm

    EVIL bastard. His wife has got to be such a loser for marrying him.

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  • bockvl
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:41am

    This is a disgusting display, all right, but there‘s no way I’m watching this video. How is it that no one here thinks it is HORRIBLE that the Blaze posted a freakin online video of a child’s abuse. Where are my CHRISTIAN friends? Yes, it’s good there is evidence that could be used in court against the father, but how can anyone say it’s great that this is posted online? What about the CHILD, you self-righteous idiots? What about his CONFIDENTIALITY? Dear Lord, if I wasn’t losing affection for the Blaze, and for the whole bunch of you in general, this will surely do it for me. I‘m switching to Obama’s side, because I’m tired of hearing folks sit around and revel in how “right” you are, without a moment’s thought for the fact that you sensationalize a memory this child will someday have that much harder a time in forgetting, thanks to your actions. I’m out.

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    • Constructionist
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Wow, I never thought about it that way before. I’m gonna vote for Obama too!

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    • ElAduanero
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:26pm

      BOCKVL- it’s an ABC News video, and you are an idiot.

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    • TheVoice1
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:29pm

      “self righteous idiots”….. your post was the definition of a self righteous idiot….. switching to Obama because…. ah….. right… Are you just a troll in training….

      like, “there’s a video of a man hitting a boy with a belt!!!!! Time to switch to Obama” kinda thing….

      like I know Obama supports late term abortion as well as “abortion” of the child that makes it out still alive, but the Blaze posted a video of a man hitting a boy with a belt so I am voting for Obama now…. apex of stupidity verbalized so eloquently in your self righteous idiot post….

      Can someone help this woman get back on her meds please…

      No doubt the man will get what he deserves now because someone did video it…

      Stand Strong America

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 12:33pm

      You aren’t fooling anyone. The whole “pretend to be on your side for the sole purpose of discrediting you” ruse is so overdone.

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    • Sagus
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:20pm

      An account five days old.She claims to be tired of this vitriol on this sight and therefore will change her vote for Obama. Does anyone really think she was going to vote for a Republican?

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:51pm

      Don’t feed the trolls……………you see how hungry they are…..Bla….blablabla …..Blablaba

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  • face.chewer
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:53am

    It will be interesting to see if he is a dumbocrat. I bet a whole lot more belt spankings happen in rural hicksville areas than in Califoornia. You should see all the little hicks out on their dirt bikes and ATVs when they are barely old enough to ride a bicycle.

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    • trinklefinder
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:24am

      boy, youre a real gem. ive always wondered about the life of a troll. like, do they have so much anger in them that the only way to feel better is to go to sites anonymously (wimp) and post stuff they know will get people riled up? that doesnt sound like a very pleasant life. i work for an agency that offers a 12 week anger management program, would you like our number?

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  • calisun
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:15am

    This makes me sick and sadly this goes on all the time. Usually behind closed doors.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:44pm

      It‘s probably not the first time he’s done this to this child……and where’s his mom? I bet she’s been slapped around too. I have no sympathy for this man…..

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  • VotersOfNY
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 10:02am

    So what? What did you expect? Those moron voters in California are the dumbest on the planet. Here’s some proof.

    Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Waxman, Jackson-Lee, Waxman, Rosen and many more arrogant dopes.

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    • angeleyes63
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 2:43pm

      @VOTERSOFNY
      This is what happens when you have a state with high concentrations of minority voters in large cities they overwhelm the rest of the state even though geographicaly ca is conservative. This is also what happens when illegal aliens are incouraged to vote, and the state refuses to enforce voter I.D. laws.

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    • minorityconservative2
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:46am

      Fortunately there were two minorities here and one was doing the right thing to correct what the other was doing.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:56am

    GRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    I have no words……………….

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  • Dodsfall
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 9:55am

    It’s a good thing the neighbor caught this on tape and posted it online. It makes it awfully difficult to “lose” the evidence before trail.

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    • bockvl
      Posted on June 10, 2012 at 11:38am

      I am amazed that no one here thinks it is HORRIBLE that the Blaze posted a freakin online video of a child’s abuse. Where are my CHRISTIAN friends? Yes, it’s good there is evidence that could be used in court against the father, but how can anyone say it’s great that this is posted online? What about the CHILD, you self-righteous idiots? What about his CONFIDENTIALITY? Dear Lord, if I wasn’t losing affection for the Blaze, and for the whole bunch of you in general, this will surely do it for me. I‘m switching to Obama’s side, because I’m tired of hearing folks sit around and revel in how “right” you are, without a moment’s thought for the fact that you sensationalize a memory this child will someday have that much harder a time in forgetting, thanks to your actions. I’m out.

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    • minorityconservative2
      Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:49am

      Plenty of people here have said it is horrible and you are an idiot troll. You are so transparent. Whatever they are paying you to come on here and say your junk it is too much.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:46am

    For a long time I felt the same way about Bill Buckner. I was wro, wr, wron, incorrect.

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:40am

    Just another “Public Employee”, “Union Thug”, pathetic human being living in the “Golden State” of California. What a sorry excuse for a human being !

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  • Truth and Justice
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:13am

    So nice to see a parent bonding with their kid.

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  • welloddyfriggindah
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 8:01am

    I’m a stepdad. I love my ALL my kids. Prosecuting this guy is his only hope for change.

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  • Watermain
    Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:41am

    There’s a parent of the year.

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