Because you punched me in the eye when I snuck into your daughters’ room last week. :mad:
IME, teenage girls can’t tell you what they’ll be doing in ten minutes, let alone on, say, Thursday night next week. Probably she just forgot to tell him.
Also a distinct possibility, yes.
Apparently the kid tried to get away, and the father blocked him from leaving. The kid eventually got away but was picked up by police a few blocks away. I’m not sure what conclusions can be drawn from that.
Whether or not what he did was technically a burglary, or an assault, that’s what he’s being charged with.
If a strange man crawls in yo daughter’s bedroom window, ancient tradition decrees certain deeds be done.
That’s not a link to a thesaurus nor was it an entry on hyperbole.
I have a couple of questions about the legal circumstances:
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If the girl HAD been there, and had invited him in, would that mean he wasn’t trespassing or breaking/entering or whatever? i.e., does a teenager daughter have the authority (legally) to invite somebody into the house?
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If the girl had, say, told him to come over and go ahead into her room, but she wasn’t at home when he arrived (perhaps they spoke on the phone and she told him to come over, but then she snuck out to buy some ice cream … or perhaps they made plans to meet up at midnight, but she forgot … or something along those lines), would THAT suffice as legal permission to enter the home?
This depends on what result you are looking for. Are you looking for justifications for the bf to enter? If so, then I’d say that the bf has some “right” (I use that term loosely) to enter. If you’re looking to hold the dad liable in some way, then I would say no, that the bf is entirely at fault, or rather, the dad is excused for his actions (i.e. affirmative defense).
Personally, and I tried looking up those exact same questions last night before I left work, I think the bf was totally in the wrong and is very lucky that worse did not happen to him. The way he was charged was totally correct according to the situation. The complaintant, in criminal matters, the state, would have the same view as the dad: hears noise coming from daughter’s bedroom, goes to investigate knowing daughter is not home (presumably), sees dude trying to break in, defends his home. Jurisdictions are replete with laws and cases that have people trying to protect their homes and do so with lethal force, particularly if the dad felt he was in extreme danger (which he could have). The dad in this situation, according the article, does not know who this intruder is. Yes, the facts can be made clearer in discovery that he did know who the bf is, and beat the crap out of him anyway, and would therefore be in the wrong, but the article does not lend out those facts.
I remember being a teenager too, and I remember in particular crawling through windows in my girlfriend’s house for make-out sessions. Exactly what activities require crawling through bedroom windows in the dead of night depend greatly on the particular girl’s father’s attitude …
OTOH, I also distinctly recall security procedures in place to prevent beatings like this guy got, which I was very interested in avoiding. You don’t bust in–you what for the window to be opened from the inside, by the girl, and for the ‘all-clear’ signal. :smack:
Really? I reread it and didn’t find that. Can you quote the relevant part?
I don’t keep a gun, so he wouldn’t have been shot. He probably would have been stabbed though. I don’t give a crap why he was breaking in, you break into someones home in the middle of the night and you get whatever comes to you.
News update–
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7010934560
And this one has a photo!
http://www.kypost.com/content/wcposhared/story.aspx?content_id=8638cef2-488f-498e-bbd9-ef0c0d0cbc86
More details
Why is he being charged with assault?
And he is charged with…wait for it…BURGLARY!!!
Well, yes, but that’s because he’s being charged with assault, presumably.
You already admitted defeat, anyway.
News Update!
Kids who break into houses are known to lie…unprecedented! :rolleyes:
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080515/NEWS01/305150012/1056/COL02
So, he’s just a lyin’ thievin’ little so & so. Not Romeo.
I’m not sure that the dad is any more credible than the kid, unless there’s been a spate of teenage-girl-bedroom-sneaking incidents reported in the area.
OK, so events have caught up with me. Still, I have a question for those of you who’ve been condemning this guy and the girl. Didn’t you know about Romeo And Juliet when you were teenagers? Ladies, did you never consider the idea of a boy being so enamored of you that he would climb up to your window to see you? Especially if you’re [exaggerated teenage angst] cruel, horrible parents [/exaggerated teenage angst] were determined to keep you apart?
That said, yes, if it had happened in my teenage daughter’s room, unpleasantness would have ensued for the boy and the girl would have been told that if she wanted to play Juliet, we could read Shakespeare aloud or she could try out for the local theater. I suspect the gentleman would be installing bolts on her window. Still, if the situation had played out as originally described, I can see a 15 year old girl thinking it was terribly romantic. If it played out the way it’s been more recently described, I can see it as a rather cruel prank to play on the guy.
I suppose it’s worth noting that Romeo and Juliet die, just to be fair.
Oh, believe me, that would definitely be part of the talk! 
On the other hand, there’s a slight problem of the epilogue which, if memory serves, says something about how these two young lovers shouldn’t be kept apart. I’ll find my copy and doublecheck that.