What is the name of your state? Ohio
My boyfriends stepson from his previous marriage was arrested Tuesday night for domestic violence. The child is 15 years old and this is his second run in with the police. First time he ran from the police when they tried to stop him at night.
At about 9:30pm my boyfriends daughters call him wanting him to come and get them because their mom and brother are fighting. A minute later the stepson beeps in and my boyfriend answers. The child is hysterical. You can barely make him out because he is crying. He tells his him what happened and that he is hiding in a creek.
The son tells my boyfriend that he was playing with the dog while the dog was in his cage. The dog started barking and the mothers boyfriend told the son not to get the dog excited or else. The stepson asks the boyfriend "whatcha gonna do about it dog?" This child is a huge smartty pants everyone know that. Well the boyfriend takes him seriously and gets out of his chair and starts to approach the child. The mom jumps in the middle and tells the child to go to his room. The son says no so the mom slaps him across the face pretty hard. The son goes to his room and kicks in his bedroom door. The mom runs in after him and pins him down and starts punching him numerous times. The mother then puts the child in a choke hold. The son asks his mom to let go of him and she doesn't. So he ends up scratching her neck while trying to get free. The mother then lets go and tells the son that she is calling his parole officer. The mother claims that the son knocked the cell phone and phonebook out of her hands and takes off running. The daughter who saw the entire thing said no he didn't. He just took off. Thats when the son called his stepdad from at teh creek.
The mom called the police and told them that the son tried to punch her and scratched her neck. So the police where waiting for him when he walked in the door.
He walked by the officer and the officer told him to stop and he continued to keep walking and then he resisted arrest when they got him.
The police took him to the cruiser and took pictures of the mothers neck and of the bedroom door. They also took the mothers statement. They did not take the daughter's statement (she witnessed everything) nor did they take the sons statement. There are two sides to every story. They did not take pictures of the son either.
We went to child's services the next morning because we are in the process of getting custody of the son because the mother doesn't want to the child anymore. We were in the process of doing this for a about a month before this entire situation happened. No one had called child services at all. The lady at child services got a copy of the police report and they statement said nothing about the mother beating the son first and there wasn't a statement from the son either.
The lady then called the detention center where they took the child that night. They check everyone that is brought in. The son had 2 huge knots on his head, a scratch on his collarbone and marks his hands.
We went through the detention hearing to decide if he needs to stay in the detention hall or if he can be released to someone else.
During the hearing the judge asked the child if he wanted a lawyer and he said no after thinking about it for a while. His mother was sitting right next to him because she is his only legal guardian.
The mother willing admitted to the parole officer before the hearing that she "beat the h**l out of him". So right there shouldn't the charges of domestic violence be dropped against the son and the charges of child abuse put on the mother?!
Someone please help me. Can my boyfriend and I still get him a lawyer even if he said no? Can the case be thrown out because they didn't take the sons statement or take pictures of him? Can the charge of domestic violence be dropped? Can the mother be charged with child abuse?
My boyfriends stepson from his previous marriage was arrested Tuesday night for domestic violence. The child is 15 years old and this is his second run in with the police. First time he ran from the police when they tried to stop him at night.
At about 9:30pm my boyfriends daughters call him wanting him to come and get them because their mom and brother are fighting. A minute later the stepson beeps in and my boyfriend answers. The child is hysterical. You can barely make him out because he is crying. He tells his him what happened and that he is hiding in a creek.
The son tells my boyfriend that he was playing with the dog while the dog was in his cage. The dog started barking and the mothers boyfriend told the son not to get the dog excited or else. The stepson asks the boyfriend "whatcha gonna do about it dog?" This child is a huge smartty pants everyone know that. Well the boyfriend takes him seriously and gets out of his chair and starts to approach the child. The mom jumps in the middle and tells the child to go to his room. The son says no so the mom slaps him across the face pretty hard. The son goes to his room and kicks in his bedroom door. The mom runs in after him and pins him down and starts punching him numerous times. The mother then puts the child in a choke hold. The son asks his mom to let go of him and she doesn't. So he ends up scratching her neck while trying to get free. The mother then lets go and tells the son that she is calling his parole officer. The mother claims that the son knocked the cell phone and phonebook out of her hands and takes off running. The daughter who saw the entire thing said no he didn't. He just took off. Thats when the son called his stepdad from at teh creek.
The mom called the police and told them that the son tried to punch her and scratched her neck. So the police where waiting for him when he walked in the door.
He walked by the officer and the officer told him to stop and he continued to keep walking and then he resisted arrest when they got him.
The police took him to the cruiser and took pictures of the mothers neck and of the bedroom door. They also took the mothers statement. They did not take the daughter's statement (she witnessed everything) nor did they take the sons statement. There are two sides to every story. They did not take pictures of the son either.
We went to child's services the next morning because we are in the process of getting custody of the son because the mother doesn't want to the child anymore. We were in the process of doing this for a about a month before this entire situation happened. No one had called child services at all. The lady at child services got a copy of the police report and they statement said nothing about the mother beating the son first and there wasn't a statement from the son either.
The lady then called the detention center where they took the child that night. They check everyone that is brought in. The son had 2 huge knots on his head, a scratch on his collarbone and marks his hands.
We went through the detention hearing to decide if he needs to stay in the detention hall or if he can be released to someone else.
During the hearing the judge asked the child if he wanted a lawyer and he said no after thinking about it for a while. His mother was sitting right next to him because she is his only legal guardian.
The mother willing admitted to the parole officer before the hearing that she "beat the h**l out of him". So right there shouldn't the charges of domestic violence be dropped against the son and the charges of child abuse put on the mother?!
Someone please help me. Can my boyfriend and I still get him a lawyer even if he said no? Can the case be thrown out because they didn't take the sons statement or take pictures of him? Can the charge of domestic violence be dropped? Can the mother be charged with child abuse?
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