A Florida father was arrested on Monday after allegedly beating his son and throwing him at a wall over purchases the kid made on an iPad.
The Flagler County Sheriff's Workplace stated that 33-year-old Andrew Atkerson was taken to the Sheriff Perry Corridor Inmate Detention Facility after he was arrested and charged for allegedly injuring his 9-year-old son.
The arrest comes a number of weeks after the alleged incident occurred on February 3, the sheriff's workplace stated.
"At present on probation for a felony battery arrest involving the kid's mom in 2017, Atkerson would goal his son in a February 3 assault on the father's Palm Coast house," the Flagler County Sheriff's Workplace stated in a press launch.
In response to police, on February 3, Atkerson's 9-year-old son used an iPad to make a number of purchases whereas utilizing an utility. Police didn't say how a lot cash was spent on the purchases.
After studying of the in-app purchases made by the boy, police stated Atkerson allegedly attacked his son, choosing him up a number of occasions and threw him "into the partitions, closets and different objects within the house," police stated. The 9-year-old boy reportedly sustained bruising throughout quite a few components of his physique from the assault, police stated.
The sheriff's workplace stated that the 9-year-old boy's mom observed her son's accidents when she picked him up from college after the alleged assault.
In response to the sheriff's workplace, Atkerson was interviewed by officers with the Florida Division of Kids and Households (DCF) Baby Safety Workforce. In the course of the interview, Atkerson allegedly stated, "I might need over punished them a little bit bit," the sheriff's workplace stated.
Atkerson was arrested and charged with felony little one abuse, based on the sheriff's workplace. He's at present in custody on a $12,500 bond.
"No little one ought to ever need to endure what this man did to his little one. It seems this man has no capacity to manage his rage," Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly stated in a press release. "Dad and mom have the fitting to self-discipline their kids however can't go overboard, which occurred on this case. A extra acceptable self-discipline would have been to limit entry to the iPad or make them do chores round the home to pay for the objects they ordered, not beat their little one. I am grateful the mom reported her observations and the work our detectives and DCF have achieved on this case to guard the kids."
Newsweek was directed to the press launch after reaching out to the Flagler County Sheriff's Workplace for remark.
A considerably comparable incident lately occurred in Nebraska, when a pair was arrested after the daddy was accused of throwing his toddler daughter at a crib as a result of the kid was distracting him from taking part in video video games.
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