Father of the Year Nominee: Slaps Two Year Old Because She Ate His Pringles

Animal:

Justin James Warren Green, 22, was arrested Friday but bonded out of the county jail this morning, said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian.

Investigators said the 2-year-old girl was taken to the emergency room at St. Vincent’s East last week with a large hand print and abrasion on the left side of her face. The hospital staff summoned sheriff’s deputies and social service workers. Green, Christian said, went to the hospital but was escorted out by hospital staff.

The district attorney’s office agreed that the case merited child abuse charges, Christian said. Deputies interviewed Green Friday and he confessed to hitting his daughter because she was eating his barbecue Pringles.

You know, when I read stories like this, it makes me sad that judges can’t choose to implement a little “cruel and unusual punishment” on Justin. I guess we have to rely on the inmate honor code to do that.

Martin

The least they could do is make him wear a shirt in jail that reads “I slapped my daughter”
Rohrbaugh

What he did wasn’t right, but it seems a little extreem to say that he should experience “prison justice” for slapping his child. There are way worse things. When he gets there, all the other inmates will know will be that he is a child abuser and he will get the full treatment the same as if he had molested her or had her caged in the basement. It would have been better if the cops had ruffed him up a little during the arrest. You know, “he wouldn’t stop resisting.”