A court in Australia has sentenced a man to three years in prison after he went on a vicious homophobia-fueled attack against his own 6-year-old-son and the boy’s mom.
The 28-year-old father of three, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is a landscape gardener who lives in Mackay, North Queensland, according to the Courier-Mail.
During his trial, the court heard that he had come across his 6-year-old son (his eldest child) sitting on the lap of another boy. Incensed at what he perceived as “sexual engagement,” the father then started to beat the boy, screaming “Being gay is wrong,” and, “if they were adults I would have killed them.”
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He repeatedly hit and threw his son to the ground, leaving the youngster terrified and bruised.
The boy’s mother then intervened to try and protect her infant daughter. The dad then turned his attention to mom, pinning her to the wall by her throat and telling her, “You better f***me after this.” He then choked her until she passed out.
When she regained consciousness, the dad apologized, but then slapped her again when she tried to comfort her daughter.
The father’s terrorizing behavior toward his family continued for several days, but a welfare visit led to the man’s arrest in August 2020.
The man later told police, ”It’s hard to explain it, I caught my boy sitting on another boy’s lap, this is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
“I’m a piece of s***. I shouldn’t have put my hands on my kid, but a matter of fact I have.”
The man was held on remand but ignored orders not to contact the children’s mother. He messaged her to ask her to drop charges against him, warning her that he might, “miss out on the children’s lives.”
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The man pleaded guilty on Monday to all charges against him: assault occasioning actual bodily harm, choking, attempting to pervert justice, and five counts each of common assault, contravening a domestic violence order and police protection orders.
Judge Tony Moynihan at Mackay District Court sentenced him to three years in prison. However, as he has already spent a year in prison, his first parole hearing could take place on December 18, 2021, meaning he could be out before Christmas.
Chrisk
The sad thing is that the mom will probably take the POS back. There’s a reason she was with him in the first place and this sure wasn’t the first time.
Gandalf The Grey
Let’s hope she wises up during his three years prison term (not enough) and makes it so he loses custody of his children forever! I can’t remember when a story made me madder!
dinard38
Yeah. You’re probably right, which would be a travesty…to put herself and her children in danger like that. This man is obviously a lunatic with some serious anger issues. She and her children might not be lucky the next time he goes off.
Phillip
This homophobe needs serious counseling before he should EVER get to see his kids without supervised visits. I would NOT trust him ever to be around his oldest boy ever again with that kind of attitude towards what a boy or man’s orientation should be.
The boy was caught only sitting on the other boy’s lap; what in the world would he have done if they were actually having some sort of experimental child sex? Murder him? This man is sick and he doesn’t need to be around children, period! The fact that he’s also a wife-beater when he becomes mad should let her know that he cannot be trusted as a mate either. She should divorce him in my opinion, he’s shown them already what he will and can do.
Gandalf The Grey
He doesn’t need counseling. He needs a longer jail sentence and his wife should, in the meantime divorce this loser and make sure the courts cause ‘dad’ to lose custody of his children forever!
KaththeeST
Children don’t engage in “experimental child sex” unless some adult has sexually abused them and that is called “acting out.” Children aren’t sexual. Even gay children are not sexual. A gay child will be just as damaged as any straight child by any sexual molestation and any sexual contact with a child is molestation if not rape. Ask any gay adult who was sexually abused. This child was probably playing to be a child and parent or maybe playing Santa Clause but it wasn’t gay or sexual. The sperm donor should be locked away for life. The abused wife should lose her children if she ever goes back to him or to any other abusive man.
Jack
This is what’s infuriating. Gay couples having children in loving homes is “sick” and causes discrimination, refusal of admission to schools…..but any two monsters with a penis and a vagina can procreate and abuse and torture a child with almost never any consequences…..except the permanent damage or death of the child. Tell me about “against my religion” and I’ll make you read this….then slap your head off.
Gandalf The Grey
I know. But the mother here is also a victim.
jsmu
@Gandalf Any claim the b*tch may have to victimhood ends the instant she takes back this monster. She should have all her children taken away if she ever contacts him again, and he should be jailed for decades if he ever tries to see any of them again. Period.
KaththeeST
He was sentenced to prison which is a consequence more dire than merely being denied admission to a preferred school. Not all straight couples are monsters. In fact most make pretty good parents as nature is a pretty good designer. Not all gay couples provide loving homes for the children they adopt. Not all straight couples abuse the children that they brought into this world. Two monsters with vaginas tortured, starved and ultimately murdered 6 adopted children. Two monsters with penises raped two of their 9 adopted boys in Connecticut. The press tends to bury such stories but they happen. Gay people aren’t special. Gay couples aren’t all angels. They are people and just as likely to be monsters as anyone else. The fact that only straight couples can reproduce is neither just nor unjust. Sexual reproduction is the only game in town. There is no other way and without it there would be no children to provide for “gay couples having children in loving homes.” Rage against nature but mother, father and child is the model not some kind of disease to be cured by adoption.
Den
@”Kaththee”:
“Rage against nature but mother, father and child is the model not some kind of disease to be cured by adoption.”
Clearly you need a course in critical thought and something to cure your intellectual laziness. Nowhere does anybody say the classic biological family is a disease to be cured. Nowhere except perhaps in your disordered mind. Also in typical right wing fashion you seem unable to differentiate between statistic and anecdote. Two news stories say nothing at all about any differences in the prevalence of child abuse among heterosexual and homosexual households. And in fact, there is a good deal of research indicating that same sex parents raise children with more robust emotional makeup and stability.
Wanted children are treated a whole lot differently than “accidents”, and there is a mountain of empirical evidence to support that!
Cam
In America he would have gotten 6 months of probation and the kids would have been forced to visit.
Gandalf The Grey
Sad, but probably true. You can murder children and get a light sentence in America. You can rape children and all acts are subsumed into one act of molestation. We don’t value our children in this country. I don’t know if we ever did. We certainly don’t value the LGBTQI+ ones!
bsg1967
I live in Queensland Australia this sentence is a joke and I have to hear about it from a US site as not covered by Australian media. Vile
KaththeeST
I am all for tougher sentencing for violent crimes, but the US has much tougher sentencing than Australia and all of Europe. Prisoners in the US also are more likely to serve more of their time than in Australia and Europe as well. Still he wouldn’t get what he deserved even in the US. If it were up to me he would be flogged and then spend the rest of his life locked up. He will never change. He will never stop hurting people. He is broken and can’t be fixed.
keith 2512
POS should be banned from contact with any children ever again
Fahd
This would be one of those set of circumstances in which I would fully understand it if the mother and children “disappeared” to some other location (country) where the self-described POS (and any “well-meaning” authorities) could not find them. All of their lives are in danger, especially if the child is indeed gay. I hope she has the resources or help to make the right choice for her own and the children’s sake.
Dymension
I don’t understand that he thinks a 6-year-old is having “sexual” contact. Kids at that age are very physical without any meaning because they are just phasing out of the point in their life where all adults are physical with them. It’s not really until 8-12 where that kind of physicality phases out. Parents really need to educate themselves. This child probably isn’t really gay, but just a normal 6-year-old.
KaththeeST
I agree with you. Children that age aren’t sexual. They were probably playing a parent child game or Santa. He is probably a normal child but gay children are normal children too. 😉 In this context, it is ironic but many gay children play more with the opposite sex than with the same sex. It is what I noticed anyway. If you are with the same set of children from preschool to college many come out and it is difficult not to make generalizations. Still all the gay children I knew, were normal children in every way and such sweethearts like all children.
IanHunter
Hell be gave himself after he gets out of prison. I hope his husband in prison is a big dude named “The Pounder”.
whateverokok
Don’t you mean Double Quarter Pounder?
msfrost
Being, LGBT is a congenital condition. (Developed before birth)
darkanser
That’s not the meaning of congenital. I think the word you’re searching for is genetic.
edensasp
cannot be named for legal reasons…. What ???
Donston
I get homophobia and gay panic. But this certainly isn’t “normal” homophobia. This is someone who has general violent instincts.
Mack
So you’re okay with someone using those as a defense? How pathetic is that?
Donston
If that’s what you got from that post…
letthemeatcake
Hiding his identity for legal reasons?!? What a sorry excuse to protect a child abuser that is guilty of a hate crime. Identify him, and then let the internet sleuths provide the data for others to “Do God’s work”……
Mehki
Hopefully. It’s to protect the child’s identity, not his.
DarkZephyr
I am confused. She intervened to protect her daughter but not her son who was the one being attacked and when she came to, she went to comfort her daughter and not her son? I hope she isn’t also homophobic.
darkanser
Yeah, the narrative is confusing. I assume it came from the mother. I wonder what prompted the welfare visit. Did some neighbors call it in? I suspect there’s a LONG history of domestic violence here. And he’s a relatively YOUNG father too which makes it all the more SHOCKING in this day and age.
kyrodamien
She better find the right help! The law never intervenes in the correct way or they do something after the fact! He sounds like a potential family annihilator!
Kangol2
The father is an extreme homophobe, but also a misogynist, apparently has anger and violence management issues, poor to non-existent impulse control, and also may experience serious internal conflicts involving his own sense of masculinity. Homophobia and misogyny are key here; in addition to brutalizing the little boy, he attacked the mother who was trying to save the infant daughter. Did she not try to save her son as well? That isn’t clear.
He should be kept far away from them and from children in general. This very sad story also underscores that even in very liberal, wealthy countries like Australia, homophobia and anti-LGBTQ attitudes are still a problem.
fredk3
the kid’s 6. in 10 years he’s going kick his dad’s butt.
Mehki
Fingers crossed!
whateverokok
You mean F— his dad’s butt. With a rotted wooden baseball bat.
Gadfeal
Why doesn’t the social services administration strip him of parental rights? If I were a dictator, I would also sterilize him.
Celtic
This father should be castrated as part of his punishment. A defenseless six-year-old suffering under the vicious rage of his father is horrific. At age six, I doubt this young lad even contextualized his sitting on the lap of a bud as sexual.
whateverokok
Really? Then why do so many gay people say they knew they were gay at age 6. I mean, you’re born gay. So you’re always gay, amiright?
white-queer-african
Sad, sad, sad. Then again It can only come from a deranged heterosexual father with a history of possibly being sexual abused as a child or having fears of being attracted to men? None the less, any monster, male or female, that assaults a child must rot in jail before they move on to rot in hell! And I so hope there is a hell for these bastards.
just some queer
Guessing this asshole is a fan of Kevin Hart.
revjimbrooking
This poor excuse for a man should be banned from ever being in the company of children, including those he fathered, for the rest of his miserable life!
RyanMBecker
He should not be released until rehabilitated cleared by mental health professionals. He’s admitted that “if they were adults I would have killed them.” In other words, he’s a danger to society. Especially since he was triggered by no more than a kid sitting in the laps off another kid. Can you imagine having a powder keg like that in public? In fact, he should be charged under laws for terrorism.
Furthermore, he tried to contact his family despite warnings not to. This is not a man who can be released to the public.