Stepfather accused of hitting girl with poker when he saw boyfriend in her bed

St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | June 7, 2011 | Maricella Miranda

[ConservativeStatement]

A Burnsville man is accused of hitting his stepdaughter with a poker as punishment after finding the girl and her boyfriend in bed together.

Cornelius Romelle Shaw, 42, was charged with malicious punishment of a child, a gross misdemeanor, according to a Dakota County criminal complaint posted Monday.

Shaw told police he hit his stepdaughter and her boyfriend after finding them in bed together - but only after the boyfriend pushed Shaw over, causing Shaw to hurt his back, the complaint said. Shaw reportedly admitted that he shouldn't have hit his daughter.

[GeronL]

if you are old enough to have sex, you are old enough to get a job and leave.

That is the best rule.

[applpie]

any parent might be tempted to throw a pan or two.

[FreeMaine]

Shaw reportedly admitted that he shouldn't have hit his daughter.

Of course he should have hit her.
Numbers 12:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

Now i don't know what he hit it her with, a switch would have been fine.

[null and void]

He hit her, not him?

Jealousy?

[eddie willers]

Seems she attracts pokers.

[null and void]

*ouch*

[FreeMaine]

He finds his daughter in bed with a guy, does what a father is suppose to do, and you ask if he is jealous?? Are you weird or what, or is it that you just have a filthy mind?

[sodpoodle]

One more dysfunctional family.

Where are the bio mother and the bio father?

It seems as if sex is the overriding function/activity/motivation for our teenagers and Congress.

We are in deep doo doo.

[null and void]

Me? I would have assumed that my virtuous daughter was being raped by this cur, and beat the living crap out of him.

I'm not a muslim that I would stone a rape victim, nor would I kill my own daughter to preserve family "honor".

Yes, I am weird. Ask any of my friends.

Yes, I have a filthy mind. Ask any of my friends.

[SoldierDad]

First, if I had found one of my underage daughters in bed with some boy, I would have dragged his butt out of the bed by his ear, and thrown him out of my home naked. Her punishment would have come after.

Second, the article indicates this person was the girl's step-father. So, the question about jealousy is not completely out of line IMO. It's not outside the realm of possibility that the step-father was attracted to the girl. More information is needed to answer this question.

[GeronL]

tempted.

That isn’t her house. she is still a kid. she needs to obey her parents.

HE is an adult and should have been shot.

[SoldierDad]

One word - “HOLLYWEIRD”

[Pan_Yan]

any parent might be tempted to throw a pan or two.

Excuse me?

[DainBramage]

Boyfriend pokes girl Dad hits poker then pokee.....police piqued

[Soothesayer9]

so when does puberty hit again?

[null and void]

Oh, and FWIW, I missed that he hit the young buck too. That makes it sound a lot less like he was targeting only her, the thing that jarred my sensibilities the most, and caused me to grasp at excuses why hitting her, but not him, could possibly make any sense.

[GeronL]

about 7, so what?

we aren’t animals. we shouldn’t expect children to act like animals either.

we need to have higher expectations for our kids than sluts and gangbangers.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

He hit them both, after the boyfriend pushed him and hurt his back. He shouldn’t have resorted to violence, but it was a weird situation.