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07.18.2008 12:10pm EDT
(Anderson, County, South Carolina) Police want to question an Anderson, South Carolina man about allegations he assaulted his 18-year old son with a baseball bat when the teen returned home from a gay pride parade.
A police report filed by the teenager and obtained by The Anderson Independent newspaper said that the father yelled, swung the bat and tried to “cast the demon of homosexuality out of him.”The teen claims in the incident report that the 49-year old father prayed as he swung the bat. There is no indication he was struck.
The unnamed teen was then thrown out of the house.
Several days later when the teen returned home to pick up his clothes he alleges he was punched.
The police report said 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” the paper reported.
Deputies are investigating both incidents but say they have not been able to make contact with the father.
©365Gay.com 2008
wow! thats terrible. i understand some parents ..you should love your children whether there gay or st8 if you love them who they sleep with shouldnt matter
This type of behavior does not surprise me. Aside from the young man’s father’s reaction, I find it deplorable that the deputies investigating, “…have not been able to make contact with the father.” I can imagine that they haven’t put much effort into it.
My God loves and gives love, hate belongs to the man downstairs, just who do you think he was praying to. Not mine, I can assure you. Hate comes from below. Hate in all it’s ugliest of forms, These bigoted people should just fade away…..maybe after the election – can we hope? I’ve heard enough from these “family values” people – God help us.
Well, unless the father fled to avoid prosecution, it seems that the apparent inability to make contact with the father would indicate that dear old Dad doesn’t hang out at the local donut shop. Were the deputies to actually make an EFFORT to contact him, I’m sure they’d find him right off the bat (pardon the pun).
There’s no doorbell at the father’s front door, so the police can’t contact him.
You bet the police could find him – if they really took this seriously. If I were the 18 year old I’d bring charges against him for attempted assault. Even if there is no jail time, seeing this man embarrased would
be very satisfying.
Where does he get off acting like that.
Was alcohol involved? If dear old dad had hit this 18 year old on the side of the head with the bat he could have easily killed him
as the result of a cerebral hemmorhage.
There’s obviously no reationship between the father and son. My dad would find himself needing an attorney.
Steve
What became of this case??
Here’s what became of it: All the justice a gay man can expect in Upstate SC…
““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.”