NASSAU-A father, who whipped his daughter with an electrical cord after she sent racy photos to men online, has been sentenced to probation for two years.
The 38-year-old man thought he was disciplining the 15-year-old. However, prosecutors considered his actions abusive.
The man pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelty to children at his arraignment before Samuel McKinney.
The court heard that the girl was at her dad’s home on September 19 when her stepmother asked who she was talking to on her tablet.
The man beat his daughter with the power cord, causing injuries to her leg, neck, back and thigh after his wife accused the child of talking to a man.
In court, the man told Magistrate McKinney that he became upset when he saw the nudes she had sent to men online.
The man said he had reared his daughter from infancy after her mother walked out.
The father said he believed that the child’s mother reported the incident to “spite” him.
However, the magistrate told the man that his ex had a legal and moral obligation to report the incident.
Magistrate McKinney told the father he could not discipline his child in a manner that resulted in physical or psychological trauma.
The father will spend six months in prison if convicted of a similar officer while on probation.
Additionally, he has to pay the child’s mother $500 in compensation to avoid spending three months in prison. The child now lives with her mother.
