Dad tries to beat "the gay" out of son with baseball bat

[romantico]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 5:23pm

Complete and utter tragedy. No amount of Bible-thumping, "praying", or hate-filled imprecations will undo the despicable behavior of the father. My God is NOT like that.

ANDERSON COUNTY — Violence broke out Sunday in Anderson when an 18-year-old man returned home from a gay pride parade and was assaulted by his father.

According to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, the battering took place about 1 p.m. Sunday on P Street.

During the assault, the teen's 49-year-old father yelled, cursed, swung a baseball bat, prayed and tried to “cast the demon of homosexuality out of him,” according to the teen's version of events to Deputy S.C. Weymouth, the incident report states.

About 2 p.m. Wednesday, the teen said his father punched him when he returned to the house for clothes that he left on Sunday, the report states.

The teen told deputies that his father “has a problem with him being gay and that is why he hit him with the baseball bat Sunday,” Weymouth said in his report.

The teen filed both complaints about 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Deputies, who have not been able to make immediate contact with the teen's father, report that both incidents are under investigation.

http://www.independentmail.com/news/2008/jul/18/anderson-man-batters-gay-son-home/

The comments are just as enlightening.

[willact4food]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 5:46pm

Unbelievable.
What are the chances Fox News would air this story? Slim to none I'm guessing.

[tazber]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 5:48pm

was the kid's name Justin Caster? I bet it was.

[DG]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 7:14pm

"'After conducting a thorough investigation and the lack of any forensic evidence to support the allegation of the assault, Dwight Clark Ables has been charged with 1 count of Filing a False Police report. He turned himself in today at the Anderson County Sheriff’s office,' read a press release from the Department’s Public Information Officer Suzanne Griffin. Ables is currently being held at the Anderson County Detention Center where he awaits a bond hearing."

[artscallion]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 7:18pm

Thanks again, religion!

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 7:51pm

He should know better. You need a crucifix and holy water for something like that.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:14pm

No need to blame religion for the act of an obvious lunatic.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:21pm

ANDERSON, S.C. — On July 22, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department charged an 18-year-old gay man with filing a false police report after he accused his father of assault.

In two reports filed July 16, Dwight Clark Ables accused his father of chasing him, punching him and hitting him with a bat after a disagreement over the son’s attendance at a gay pride festival, news reports in the LGBT media spread across the nation.

According to the reports, the teen accused his father of yelling, cursing and swinging a bat at him when he returned home Sun., July 13 after attending a gay pride festival. The teen also said his father chased him from the home.

On the morning of July 16, the teen returned home for a change of clothes and was punched by his father.

The teen claimed in the reports, filed by Deputy S.C. Weymouth, that his father “has a problem with him being gay and that is why he hit him with the baseball bat Sunday.”

“After conducting a thorough investigation and the lack of any forensic evidence to support the allegation of the assault, Dwight Clark Ables has been charged with 1 count of Filing a False Police report. He turned himself in today at the Anderson County Sheriff’s office,” read a press release from the Department’s Public Information Officer Suzanne Griffin.

Ables is currently being held at the Anderson County Detention Center where he awaits a bond hearing.
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[DMsquared2]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:25pm

This worries me because what if there actually is a case of father attacking his child because of his or her sexual orientation and it's not taken seriously?

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:45pm

I'd like to beat the idiot out of that dad with a bat.

In the name of God, of course.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:48pm

So wait...did the guy actually beat his son or had he beat him in the past and the son was just using this as a way of getting away from him?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:49pm

Are people still missing the fact that the kid lied? I like a good conspiracy, though, so I'm choosing to believe there's a cover-up.

[DG]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:52pm

For what it's worth:

Within the comments under the first article posted, there appear a couple of longer posts from people claiming to know the family in question. As this is a relatively small community, that's not outside the realm of possibility.

Each of the posters comes across as rational and straight-forward, and their 'take' on things is very similar. According to them, the situation is nothing as it is being presented.

And the only 'official-ish' follow-up seems to bear out their tales.

Frankly, as someone who actually did live a childhood fraught with that type of danger, I find the possibility of falsehood very disturbing - and not just a little bit insulting.
Updated On: 7/23/08 at 09:52 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/23/08 at 9:59pm

Ouch! It would help if I noticed that.

I skim too much.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/24/08 at 12:02am

I'm confused. Did the beating work or not?

Posted: 7/24/08 at 12:05am

more liberal lies to give good Christians a bad name.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/24/08 at 8:44am

Soooooo....beating or not?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/24/08 at 10:17am

After conducting a thorough investigation and the lack of any forensic evidence to support the allegation of the assault, Dwight Clark Ables has been charged with 1 count of Filing a False Police report. He turned himself in today at the Anderson County Sheriff’s office,” read a press release from the Department’s Public Information Officer Suzanne Griffin.

Ables is currently being held at the Anderson County Detention Center where he awaits a bond hearing.