A father who said he saw a man molesting his 4-year-old daughter behind a barn in Lavaca County apparently beat the man to death Saturday afternoon, officials said.
The death occurred about 3:45 p.m. at a horse barn along County Road 302 near Shiner, about 127 miles west of Houston, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.
Harmon said the victim, a 47-year-old Gonzales man, died at the scene. His name has not been released because his next of kin has not yet been notified of the death.
No arrests have been made in the case. Harmon said a grand jury will probably determine what, if any charges, will be filed.
Harmon said the father and daughter were at their barn with several other people to groom and care for horses there. The victim came with some of the other people, but was not well-known, if all, to the father and child.
The group later heard the girl screaming behind the barn, Harmon said. Her father ran to see what was wrong and said he saw the man allegedly sexually assaulting the child. While pulling the man away from the girl, he hit the man several times in the head, Harmon said.
The girl was taken to DeTar hospital in Victoria to be evaluated and to have tests done to determine if a sexual assault occurred. She was released later.
The Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office is expected to perform an autopsy on the victim to determine what caused his death.
UPDATE.....
VINDICATED: TEXAS DAD WHO KILLED DAUGHTER’S MOLESTER WILL NOT FACE CHARGES
The Blaze/AP) – Authorities say the Texas dad who beat his 5-year-old daughter’s molester to death earlier this month near Shiner, Texas will not be charged.
Officials said the Lavaca County grand jury met Tuesday and declined to return an indictment against the father in the death of 47-year-old Jesus Mora Flores.
The attack happened on the family’s ranch between the farming towns of Shiner and Yoakum. Investigators said the 23-year-old father ran toward his daughter’s screams after Flores allegedly pulled her behind some bushes and attempted to molest her. When he found Flores, he pulled him off his child and repeatedly struck him in the face and neck with his hands, ultimately killing him.
Emergency crews found Flores’ pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body when they responded to the 911 call. The girl was taken to a hospital to be examined and was released.
Authorities say forensic evidence and witness accounts corroborated the father’s story that his daughter was being sexually molested.
KTRK in Houston reports that the Lavaca County Sheriff’s Department played the 911 call made by the father after he beat Flores to death, however, details of the call were not made available.
A Texas civil rights leader recently questioned whether the father should have been arrested immediately following the incident and said he might have gone to far due to his “anger.”
“When does it move beyond self-defense,” Jim Harrington asked, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/vind...-face-charges/
Yep, it ended the way all child molesters should go. God Bless the Child & dad.....