Irate Father Throws 7-Year-Old Son Off Cruise Boat
- Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:38pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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What was meant to be a pleasant afternoon cruise around Newport Harbor, California, turned ugly Sunday when an irate father turned violent, hitting and then throwing his crying 7-year-old son overboard during an argument. Needless to say passengers on the sightseeing cruise were in complete shock when they witnessed the incident unfold.
To make matters worse, the child was not an expert swimmer.
The 35-year-old man from Southern California, Sloan Briles was arrested the same day and is currently under investigation for child endangerment and resisting arrest Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino said.
Amormino said Briles, his girlfriend and two sons from a previous marriage went on the cruise boat carrying 85 people but soon started arguing with the girlfriend and then with his 7-year-old son before throwing the boy overboard.
“The father hit him several times and then threatened to throw him overboard if he didn’t stop crying,” Amormino said. “The crowd on the boat became very angry at the father for hitting the kid and extremely angry when he threw him overboard.”
While the father reportedly jumped in after his son to save him, but the child was rescued by another boater. The boy and his brother were returned to their mother’s care.
The AP contributed to this story.
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Comments (86)
teddie888
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:25amThat poor poor child. He will have trust issues all his life because if you can’t trust & feel safe with your parents then who?
They should have left the dad in the water, let him swim back to shore if he can.
Report Post »BlackAce41
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:14amThey should have thrown his ass in the water and dragged him behind the boat…
Report Post »Ben41281
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:50amThey should have keel-hauled that SOB!! That’ll teach him!
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 11:28amMy parents passed on great rules about corporal punishment. Never spank a child when you are angry. Only spank a child 3 times. Any more than that you are no longer punishing you are doing it in anger. Always spank with your bare hand on a bare bottom, that way you will also feel the pain you are causing. These rules were explained to me at about age 3 and repeated through years. The were reinforced by my parents when my kids came along.
Oddly enough my father and mother never spanked me. Oddly enough, I never spanked my kids. Oddly enough, my kids have neve spanked their kids. But everyone in the family knows these rules of punishment. Oh, forgot a rule, every decision has consequences and unacceptable behavior will result in a spanking.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:27pmOne way to become a ‘proficient’ swimmer is to hit the water. Albeit in a bit more of a controlled, less hysterical manor.
Report Post »Floyd ALsbach
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:29pmI’m with BLACKACE41
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:23amAMEN to BlackAce!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:55pmJust another relaxing cruise.
Report Post »rdietz7
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:50pmI attend public events and watch how children respond to their parents with defiance. This guy just reached his breaking point with a punk kid. Remember seven is old enough to fight with automatic weapons in parts of Africa. Read ‘Lord of the Flies just because the are under ten doesn’t mean you can’t throw them overboard if they are being brats.
On a side note the guy could be just a loon that snapped and decided thowing his kid off the boat with no cause.
Are people calling this guy a progressive because he has a beard or cause he beats the hell out of his kid? I know some conservative Republicans that administer corporal punishment to their small defenseless children (sarcasm).
Report Post »Kaoscontrol
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:33amUh, Lord of the Flies is a work of fiction…
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 1:15amYou had me going until the last word — your entire post was sarcastic. I get it now. I didn’t laugh at all, but I get it.
Report Post »Homeschoolmama
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 2:38amI hope you don’t have kids and never do.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:10amI can‘t honestly say that while my kids were growing up I didn’t “think” about pulling a Joe Dirt’s daddy and leave them at the Grand Canyon….
Report Post »mdlwoods
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:29amYou, sir, are a complete loon. However, having said that, yes, I am a conservative. I believe in corporal punishment. My 3 daughters were raised on corporal punishment. They never received a beating but they did receive spankings. They never received a spanking they didn’t deserve for disobedience, back talking, breaking rules, etc. I also had the rule that they bend over and place their hands on the coffee table to take their licks. This avoided the whole hands flailing about their rear ends and me spanking the hands and arms instead of the butt. I never gave more than 4 licks, mostly 2 or 3 licks. Then the offending child was sent to her room to think about it for a while. Most times, when they were allowed to come out of their room, I got an apology. Today, my daughters are 33, 30 and 27 years old. None of them have been in trouble. None of them steal or do drugs. Two of them have moved about 300 miles away but they still call me every day to “just see what I am doing.” They come home as often as possible to see mom and dad. We get respect. We get love from them. One still lives near us and we see her almost daily. We get respect. We get love. The same I gave to my parents and I was raised with corporal punishment. Today, too many kids do not respect their parents or the law because they were raised with no consequences to their actions.
Report Post »LOLReally
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:35amA leather belt straightned me out. I use the same method,just not in public. My kid knows when I say “your going to get it” he knows it’s no bluff and actually listens. You parents need to learn to be parents and not a best friend.
Report Post »Lover of America
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:53pmYeah, don’t blame the parents. From what I witness in public, parents do NOT have control of their children. It is a disciplinary problem and you can‘t smack you’re kid on the ass; at least not in California. Remember good old Dr. Spock; Don‘t yell at your kids they’ll end up with mental problems. Yeah, whatever; nothing that a swift smack on the ass wouldn’t hurt.
Report Post »Cherynn
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:30pmunoin thug wanna be
Report Post »ronaldreaganthegreat
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:20pmTypical move by a progressive, nuff said!
Report Post »flamegonesilver
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:38pmAnd what do we do with ‘mad dogs?’
Report Post »That‘s right children we ’put them down’,
so they can’t do any more harm.
mils
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:57pmno visitation for this man. he needs to go into long term anger management…..and he should never have children around him
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:06pmIts OK folks – throwing your child off a cruise boat is not considered a crime in CA.
Report Post »READRIGHTHERE
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 3:19amHe probably has case against the cruise ship company for not providing enough entertainment for his seven year old so that proximity and animosity between them, which clearly led to the violent resolution, had no chance to take root. They could use a precedent for their case from a few years back where a mother was injured when she tripped over a child in a furniture store, she was awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it was her child she tripped over. Think of the pain and suffering he endured while being forced to loose control in the presence of so many onlookers. The public shame and humiliation ought to be enough to ensure his never being able to secure work with anyone again. I bet the cruise company regrets not installing that video parlor now. Tsk Tsk.
Report Post »BrokenHearted
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:38pmNo visitation and long jail term.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:36pmI can’t believe no on intervened before he threw him in the water. I hope they keep the fool locked up
surely he has some outstanding warrants or something.
They gave the children back to the Mother. Boy I know they are all warm and cuddly now, don’t you??? She knew what this man was capable of and shouldn’t have had the kids around him in the first place. Poor Kids….
Report Post »Vapor Trail
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:01pmIts not hard to believe know one intervened. Sheep do not intervene when a wolf is accosting another sheep. Only sheep dogs step in and intervene.
Report Post »Dixiewitch13
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:13amSo, you want to blame the mother, now. Our society loves to point fingers without the slightest idea of what they are babbling about. It’s easy for you to criticize the mother for letting the father have the kids. Maybe the guy isn’t a bad person, normally. Have you walked in his shoes? I’m not excusing his horrible actions, but parents are backed into the corner by the legal system. If the mother had refused him his visitation rights, she’d be in jail, then, the dad would be in jail and the kids would be in a foster home for God knows how long with a bunch of other troubled kids. I guess that would be great for the foster parents who get paid for keeping kids that in some cases never should have been with them in the first place. It’s easy to make snap judgements on how good or bad someone is when you have not walked in their shoes nor were you present to know the whole story.
Report Post »mohavegreen
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:21pmProgressive.
Report Post »408 CheyTac
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:47pmGeorge bush’s fault
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:17pmYeah, and Obama saved the drowning boy.
Report Post »XavierD
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:26pm@ULYSSESP
Report Post »Heard he was playing golf nearby and walk out on the water to pick the kid up.
1casawizard
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:19pmHe and mossbrain ought to be cellmates.
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »Remove the word, “Cell”, and they probably are !!!
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Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »He’s the perfect Democrat rank & file voter! A low I.Q. societal leach who was raised by low I.Q. societal leaches to begin with. No moral foundation whatsoever. He probably has more alcohol and drugs in his veins than blood and more rotten teeth than brain cells. Like I said, he’s the perfect Democrat rank & file voter !
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angroehl
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:01pmWhy the hell didn’t the passengers get involved before this happened?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:08pmI would have sent the father into the water and went in to save the boy; this man should have no bit of mercy shown for the attempted murder of his kid. None at all.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:46amYou’ll notice the report says the father allegedly went in to save the boy, but not before a boater saved him…..maybe he didn’t go in willingly, I’m just saying. Trust me, if something like that happens in front of you, you’re in shock for a bit of time….I believe Glenn calls that the normalcy factor…You just can‘t believe you’re seeing it because it’s not normal behavior.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:59pmAbortion is legal.Sadly.
Report Post »NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 2:36amToo bad this guy can’t be aborted at 35…
Report Post »50stars13stripes
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:56pmGood thing he wasn’t a muslim, they would be fishing a headless body out of the water.
Report Post »FantaGirl
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:24pmNot all Muslims are bad people. I’m tired of hearing this kind of assumption on this site over and over again. Half my family is Islamic and they are not violent at all. They’re normal, law-abiding, NON-TERRORIST/VIOLENT people. We’re American and proud of it. We love this country too. We don’t want to change it (except for maybe ObamaCare and some other laws).
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:14amFANTAGIRL, No of course not all Muslims are bad people. But when major leaders in your faith declare war and murder non believers and you say nothing, you are complicit. Until I hear Muslims stand up and loudly declare these leaders to be evil, I will hold all muslims in a lesser light. If there was a Christian preacher anywhere calling for the death of muslims, billions of good souls would shout him down.
Will you renounce the words of your family’s prophet?
Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.” Qur’an 8:60
“Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.” Qur’an 2:191
“Make war on the infidels living in your neighborhood.” Qur’an 9:123
“Any religion other than Islam is not acceptable.” Qur’an 3:85
“Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam” Qur’an 5:33
“Do not hanker for peace with the infidels; behead them when you catch them.” Qur’an 47:4
“Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.” Qur’an 3:28
Doesn’t sound like a lot of wiggle room. “good muslims” might not want us dead but their religion sure does.
Report Post »simply one voice
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 4:53amI curious as to why FANTAGIRL never responded to the remarks of OOKSPAY. It troubles me when someone responds like FANTAGIRL with some great remarks and content. But, when challenged with direct and intelligent cross examination there is only silence; i.e., no response.
I want to side realistically with FANTAGIRL’s commentary yet, I cannot because of OOKSPAY’s candid and to the point questions. Trust and respect FANTAGIRL is earned, not given superficially.
Report Post »FantaGirl
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:43am@ simply one voice
I had homework. I have school, chores. I am also one of the few Muslims that pays attention to things going on. I do believe that Islamic leaders in the middle east are evil, many of the Islamic people over there are evil, and I wish it was not so. One thing I do not understand though is the the Qu‘ran quotes online differ greatly from the Qu’rans that I read. And greatly so. Mine says nothing of killing infidels. Mine says nothing of killing. Mine says not to kill, not to be violent. But whenever I look on the internet and a non-Muslim person has supposedly “translated” it, it says completely otherwise. If you’ll excuse me now I have to go to school. Then I am going to do my homework later. So I might not be able to respond then.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 2:15pmFantagirl,
It has been 30 years since I graduated from high school. I have seen a few more examples of Islamic tolerance and persuasion than you have. I stand behind all of my examples from the Koran. I have studied and dissected it for years. Please show me any version that has been “cleansed” for my perusal. However, it really doesn’t matter what Koran “you” are following, it only takes about 19 hardcore islamicists who read a different version to ruin a beautiful summer’s day…
There was a prophet that showed the way to heaven, he was peaceful, loving and compassionate, He is Jesus Christ. Compare his life and words to Mohammed’s bloody reign of terror that continues to this day and choose wisely. God looks nothing like Mohammed.
Ookspay
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:56pmSounds like he needs to be on Dr. Phil’s show.
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:55pmThats it!! This mucked up world is ripe for a cleansing and I am no longer going to allow the anger generated by this kind of stuff in my life.. As a parting salvo however, I hope that man can find a way to repent in his heart.. If not, hells awaitin..
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:53pmIn cases like this, it would be tempting to bring back that old “eye for an eye” punishment.
Report Post »This crazy person should never be allowed near children again!
Captain Crunch
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:52pm“child endangerment and resisting arrest”
Sounds more like assault and attempted murder.
Report Post »April
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:17pmExactly what I was thinking. The charges certainly don‘t meet the crime and won’t carry the punishment this man truly deserves.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on August 30, 2011 at 12:41amAttempted murder would be if he had stabbed the kid multiple times in the chest and missed the heart by a hair. The man was just giving the kid his daily swimming lesson, don’t you know. And he hit the boy in self defense cuz that little bully threatened him. Sheesh!
That piece of human waste is going to make it very hard for his son to be a normal man.
Hey libs, evolution did not work. Get yourselves spayed or neutered.
Report Post »klevalt
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:51pmThis man should be castrated! Makes me sick!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:50pmI mean really, a dirty grey T shirt with the stretched out neck calls out, “Hey everyone I’m a dirtbag loser”
Report Post »princessnutsack
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:49pmI see a court ordered/social services mandated anger management program is somebody’s future!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:48pmThat guy looks like a born loser. Why do they let these lower class people on cruises in the first place. Make them congregate at NASCAR races with the mullet head crowd where they belong.
Report Post »Deborah21
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:58pmWhy insult NASCAR? What does that have to do with this crazy person. Geez!
Report Post »GrannyATL
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:58pmThere’s a lot you can say about this man and his behavior, but lumping him into a “class” of people that you want to turn your nose at just shows your own prejudice.
He is his own man. What he did is despicable and he should be punished severely. Minimally, he should be forbidden to see his children unsupervised after he gets out of a long stint in prison.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:01pmHey Now,I Aint Mullet headed and Can’t afford to go see a NASCAR race.This guy is a Californian after all.Fruits and nuts live there.
Report Post »BrotherWill
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:09pmYes, your right. They shouldn’t be allowed to mingle with you blue blood elites, regardless if they can pay or not. Thats so American of you. Idiot.
Report Post »Quagaar Warrior
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Report Post »Hey mossbrain,
Like you, he’s the perfect Democrat rank & file voter! A low I.Q. societal leach who was raised by low I.Q. societal leaches to begin with. No moral foundation whatsoever. He probably has more alcohol and drugs in his veins than blood and more rotten teeth than brain cells. Like I said, he’s the perfect Democrat rank & file voter !
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ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:47pmAh, yes. California. Nothing else can be said.
Report Post »angroehl
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:59pmWhat is going on with the people in California? They’re all going nuts!
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:47pmIf I were a passenger on that boat, I would done more harm to that man than “ become very angry with the father”.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:28pmI would have thrown that man in after his child telling him to rescue his son. Sick people. Many in our country need a kick in the a$$.
Report Post »JamesTeaPartyMac
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:46pmThat guy should never every be around that family again! PUT HIS REAR IN JAIL FOR 10
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:59pmWaterboard him! Daily, for the duration of his sentence.
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