A Texas father who discovered a man
raping his five-year-old daughter and
beat him to death with his bare hands
will not be charged with homicide under
state law.
A Lavaca County grand jury decided not
to press charges against the 23-year-old
father in the June 9th death of Jesus Mora
Flores, 47, who was killed inside a remote
shack after he was caught molesting the
young girl.
Under Texas state law, deadly force is
authorized and indeed, justified in order
to stop an aggravated sexual assault and
coupled with the fact that the harrowing
911 calls made by the father back claims
he even tried to save the pedophile's life
led to the grand jury's decision.
Lavaca County sheriff's deputies said that
the father, whose name has not been
released to protect the little girl's identity,
sent her and her brother to feed the
family's chickens.
The boy rushed back to tell his dad that
someone had grabbed his sister and
taken her to a small secluded shack and
the father rushed towards his daughter's
screams and arrived to find them both
with their underwear off.
Flying into a rage, the father beat Flores
unconscious, but attempted to call 911
for the rapist after he had made sure his
daughter was safe.
Sheriff Micah Harmon had said in June
that he was not willing to press charges
against the father, rather the case would
be presented to a grand jury. At the time,
Harmon said that the man was 'very
remorseful' and didn't know at the time
he had killed Flores.
'You have a right to defend your
daughter,' Harmon told CNN at the time.
'The girl's father acted in defense of his
third person. Once the investigation is
completed we will submit it to the district
attorney who then submits it to the grand
jury, who will decide if they will indict
him.'
Indeed, the father is heard profanely
screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't
locate the property.
Becoming increasingly frazzled, the father
at one point tells the dispatcher he's
going to put the man in his truck and
drive him to a hospital before sheriff's
deputies finally arrive.
V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney,
sternly told reporters several times
during a news conference at the Lavaca
County courthouse that neither the father
nor the family will ever give interviews.
'He's a peaceable soul,' Huser said. 'He
had no intention to kill anybody that
day.'
The attack happened on the family's
ranch off a quiet, two-lane county road
between the farming towns of Shiner and
Yoakum.
Authorities say a witness saw Flores
'forcibly carrying' the girl into a secluded
area and then scrambled to find the
father. Running toward his daughter's
screams, investigators said, the father
pulled Flores off his child and 'inflicted
several blows to the man's head and
neck area.'
Emergency crews found Flores' pants and
underwear pulled down on his lifeless
body by the time they responded to the
911 call.
The girl was taken to a hospital and
examined, and authorities say forensic
evidence and witness accounts
corroborated the father's story that his
daughter was being sexually molested.
'Under the law in the state of Texas
deadly force is authorized and justified in
order to stop an aggravated sexual
assault or sexual assault,' District
Attorney Heather McMinn told reporters
in June.
All the evidence provided by the sheriff's
department and the Texas Rangers
indicated that's what was occurring when
the victim's father arrived at the scene,'
she said. Authorities said he expressed
regret at the killing at the time, and no
evidence so far has led them to doubt his
story. The girl's grandfather agreed it had
been an accident.
'My son. Sorry,' the grandfather told the
Victoria Advocate in broken English. 'It
was an accident.'
Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon
added: 'He was very remorseful. I don't
think it was his intent for the man to die.'
Residents of the small Lavaca County
town were largely in support of the
father, saying the victim deserved it.
Sonny Jaehne, a Shiner native, told the
Victoria Advocate: 'He got what he
deserved, big time.
Friend Mark Harabis reiterated this: 'I
agree with him totally. I would probably
do worse.
'The family will have to deal with that the
rest of their lives, no matter what
happens to the father. Even if they let
him go, he and his child will have to deal
with that the rest of their lives.'
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