ABERDEEN, Wash. -- "An Ocean Shores police officer has been acquitted of fourth-degree assault involving his 17-year-old daughter. An Aberdeen Municipal Court jury found it was acceptable discipline when Officer Jeffrey Elmore used a belt on the girl.
Elmore and his wife clasped hands and fought tears, but his daughter turned away from hugs and was led out of the courtroom sobbing. The teenager accused Elmore of beating her with a belt in an argument on Nov. 18.
The prosecutor, Forest Worgum, says her bruises were visible for nearly a month. Defense lawyer David L. Mistachkin argued that Elmore was exercising reasonable discretion in parental discipline."
17 is no longer a child but a young woman, and ANY man taking a belt to a woman should be hogtied and shot fulla rocksalt and then some. I'm thinking that the jury saw her as a brat and him all weepy and asking for forgiveness, but were I on that panel they'd still be deliberating because no man gets away with this on my watch.
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