Father who beat to death the man he caught raping his daughter, would not face charges.
a man raping his five-year-old
daughter and beat him to death
with his bare hands will not be
charged with homicide under
state law.
A Lavaca County grand jury
decided not to press charges
against the 23-year-old father
in the June 9th death of Jesus
Mora Flores, 47, who was killed
inside a remote shack after he
was caught molesting the
young girl.
Under Texas state law, deadly
force is authorized and indeed,
justified in order to stop an
aggravated sexual assault and
coupled with the fact that tthe
harrowing 911 calls made by
the father back claims he even
tried to save the pedophile's life
led to the grand jury's decision.
Lavaca County sheriff's deputies
said that the father, whose
name has not been released to
protect the little girl's identity,
sent her and her brother to
feed the family's chickens.
The boy rushed back to tell his
dad that someone had grabbed
his sister and taken her to a
small secluded shack and the
father rushed towards his
daughter's screams and arrived
to find them both with their
underwear off.
Flying into a rage, the father
beat Flores unconscious, but
attempted to call 911 for the
rapist after he had made sure
his daughter was safe.
Sheriff Micah Harmon had said
in June that he was not willing
to press charges against the
father, rather the case would be
presented to a grand jury. At
the time, Harmon said that the
man was 'very remorseful' and
didn't know at the time he had
killed Flores.
'You have a right to defend
your daughter,' Harmon told
CNN at the time. 'The girl's
father acted in defense of his
third person. Once the
investigation is completed we
will submit it to the district
attorney who then submits it to
the grand jury, who will decide
if they will indict him.'
Indeed, the father is heard
profanely screaming at a
dispatcher who couldn't locate
the property.
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.
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.
'Under the law in the state of
Texas deadly force is
authorized and justified in
order to stop an aggravated
sexual assault or sexual assault,'
District Attorney Heather
McMinn told reporters in June.
All the evidence provided by the
sheriff's department and the
Texas Rangers indicated that's
what was occurring when the
victim's father arrived at the
scene,' she said. Authorities
said he expressed regret at the
killing at the time, and no
evidence so far has led them to
doubt his story. The girl's
grandfather agreed it had been
an accident.
'My son. Sorry,'e grandfather
told the Victoria Advocate in
broken English. 'It was an
accident.'
Lavaca County Sheriff Micah
Harmon added: 'He was very
remorseful. I don't think it was
his intent for the man to die.'
Residents of the small Lavaca
County town were largely in
support of the father, saying
the victim deserved it.
Sonny Jaehne, a Shiner native,
told the Victoria Advocate: 'He
got what he deserved, big time.
Friend Mark Harabis reiterated
this: 'I agree with him totally. I
would probably do worse.
'The family will have to deal
with that the rest of their lives,
no matter what happens to the
father. Even if they let him go,
he and his child will have to
deal with that the rest of their
lives.'
Source: Daily Mail online
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