'My son saved his attacker's life': Father who brutally beat teen he caught raping his son, 11, reveals it was only his boy's pleas that saved the pedophile from death as he says his family refuse to hide
- Jason Browning, 35, shockingly admits he would have killed Raymond Frolander, 18, if not for his son stopping him
- Mr Browning beat Frolander unconscious after walking in on the pervert performing a sex act on his son while naked
- 'I just snapped,' he admitted after the beating at his Florida home - he will not be charged with any crime for his actions
- Frolander admitted to police he has been molesting the boy for three years and was charged with sexual battery on a child under 12
- The father created a Gofundme donations page asking for $1million for his son - but later took it down
- Frolander lived next door to 11-year-old and his father with the victim's biological mother. The suspect's stepmother is engaged to victim's father
The father who beat a man he allegedly caught performing a sex act on his 11-year-old son has admitted that it was only his son's pleas which stopped him from killing the admitted pervert.
Jason Browning said he was going to stab Raymond Frolander, 18, to death after he beat him unconscious but that his son stood up and stopped him from killing the man.
Frolander later admitted to Florida police that he has been molesting the boy for three years.
'I was going to kill him': Jason Browning says his son saved the life of a man who had been molesting the 11-year-old since he was just eight
'My son is the one who stepped in front of me and stopped me. My son saved his attackers life, so who's really the hero in this situation?' the father asked WKMG outside the Daytona beach courthouse shortly after Frolander's first court appearance.
Browning admitted he 'just snapped' when he walked in on Frolander naked with his son. Shortly after beating the teen into a coma, he went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, he said.
'I was going to kill him,' said Browning.
Frolander was considered family by the Brownings and often spent time with the 11-year-old boy, the father said.
'There was nothing uncommon to let the kids go in the bedroom and play video games together and now I have to wonder why the door was shut,' Mr Browning said.
The father's outrage comes from being molested himself as a child at a foster home in California. He said beating Frolander was the easy part and much harder days lie ahead.
'I'm not going to pressure anything on him,' Mr Browning said. 'I know exactly what he's going through, when he's ready to talk about it, he will.'
Police defended Mr Browning's actions but later criticized him for creating a Gofundme page asking for $1million in donations.
Initially entitled 'Rebuilding Innocence', the fundraising page featured a picture of a sleeping boy and linked the site to his Facebook profile, according to News-Journal Online.
Mr Browning wrote: 'We are reaching out to anyone that can help. Our son was sexualy (sic) assaulted and we are now faced with the challenge of picking up the pieces, the emotional and financial burden is about more than we can endure.. Please.. Anything helps.. God bless and be with you all.'
Father and son: Browning and his 11-year-old son, who police said Frolander admitted to molesting for three years before the father pummeled him and called 911 to ask for an ambulance
By Monday evening, $145 had been donated but the picture of the sleeping boy was removed. The headline became 'Help Restore My Son’s Innocence' and the amount of money being asked for dropped to $100,000.
The Gofundme page appeared to have been taken down from the charity site by Tuesday.
Police Chief Mike Chitwood said he was sad to learn of the father's attempt to make money out of the situation.
He told MailOnline on Tuesday: 'It was brought to my attention and I have to say I was pretty shocked.
'The police, investigators and prosecutors go to great lengths to protect victims of sexual abuse. I'm sure his [Mr Browning's] intentions are in the right place but this is not good for the young man's recovery.'
Chief Chitwood also said that he had hundreds of emails relating to the case, many from victims of sexual abuse and their families.
He said: 'Many of them said that they wished someone - a father, mother, big brother - had walked in when it was happening to them.'
Beaten down: Raymond Frolander was barely recognizable in his first court appearance after the savage pounding
Raymond Frolander, 18, was treated at hospital before being taken to the closest police station, and his still-swollen face was evident from the beating he received only days ago.
Frolander, still covered in bruises and with a swollen face, pleaded not guilty to sexual battery on a child after he admitted to molesting the boy for years.
The father has not been charged with a crime and police appeared to understand his reaction.
'Dad was acting like a dad. I don't see anything we should charge the dad with,' Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood told WFTS.
'You have an 18-year-old who has clearly picked his target, groomed his target and had sex with the victim multiple times.'
A subsequent mugshot showed that Frolander had been badly beaten around the face, leaving him with swollen lips and eyes, bruising and lacerations.
Raymond Frolander, 18, (pictured in his mugshot) was beaten to a pulp by the father of the 11-year-old boy that he allegedly caught his sexually assaulting at a home in Daytona Beach, Florida
When the 911 responder asked the father if any weapons were involved, he said: 'My foot and my fist'.
The 35-year-old man, who has not been identified, told a 911 dispatcher in the early hours of Friday: 'I just walked in on a grown man molesting [name redacted]. And I got him in a bloody puddle for you right now, officer.'
Police arrived at the Daytona Beach home in Florida to find Frolander unconscious.
'He is nice and knocked out on the floor for you, I dragged him into the living room,' the father said. 'Send an ambulance. He is going to need one.'
The dispatcher asked: 'Is he still unconscious?' to which the father responds: 'Yes... I hit hard, sir.'
He said that Frolander was a 'damn lucky boy that I love my God'.
The father added: 'He stood up and his pants were around his ankles and nothing else needed to be said. I did whatever I got a right to do except I didn’t kill him.'
The father had left his home around 1am to pick up some food and when he returned, heard a strange noise coming from the bedroom, police said.
He pushed open the door and allegedly found Frolander with his pants down performing a sex act on the child.
Frolander, 18, admitted to the abuse on the 11-year-old, according to his arrest affidavit. He is being held without bail on charges of sexual battery
The boy told investigators he had been playing video games with friends but when they left, Frolander took him to a back room and pulled down his pants. He also said Frolander had been abusing him for three years.
Daytona Beach police chief Michael Chitwood told MailOnline today that Frolander had a close family connection to the alleged victim.
Today the chief said he believed that Frolander lived next door to the boy and his father. The suspect was living with the victim's biological mother. Frolander's stepmother is also engaged to the victim's father.
The police chief said the young boy was intimidated and told by Frolander that terrible things would happen if he revealed the abuse.
Chief Chitwood said: 'He's 11 years old, he should be running around outside and playing video games, not dealing with something like this.'
The father was not charged in the suspect’s beating, police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said.
Frolander was taken to Halifax Heath Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries.
The arrest affidavit said that Frolander admitted the abuse.
The teen was charged with sexual battery on a child under 12 and is being held without bail. It was not known whether he's hired a lawyer.
Daytona Beach dad speaks out after attacking son's alleged abuser
Father beat man unconscious after he says he found him sexually abusing boy
The Volusia County father who beat up an 18-year-old who he says sexually abused his 11-year-old son says he doesn't want his family to hide what they have been through.
Jason Browning says he has been the victim of sexual abuse and says he wanted to kill Jason Frolander when he allegedly caught him naked with his son.
Browning says not only did he beat him, he went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
"My son is the one who stepped in front of me and stopped me. My son saved his attackers life, so who's really the hero in this situation?" he said.
Browning says Frolander was like family, and it was not unsual for him to be alone with his kids.
"There was nothing uncommon to let the kids go in the bedroom and play video games together and now I have to wonder why the door was shut," Browning said.
Browning says he too was victimized as a child. He says stopping the attack was the easy part, talking to his son about it has been much more difficult.
"I'm not going to pressure anything on him, like I said i know exactly what he's going through, when he's ready to talk about it, he will," he said.
Frolander is behind bars in the Volusia County jail.
Daytona Beach father who beat up rape suspect asked for donations
DAYTONA BEACH — The father who pummeled an 18-year-old man police say was sexually battering his son put his son’s picture on social media Monday and initially asked for $1 million in donations to help rebuild the child’s life.
“Rebuilding Innocence” was the headline atop a picture of a sleeping boy on a website called gofundme.com. The father posted a link to the website on his Facebook page.
A few hours after the original Facebook post Monday, however, the son’s picture was removed from the gofundme page. More description was added and the headline was changed to “Help Restore My Son’s Innocence.” And by 9 p.m. Monday, the father had pulled down the page and removed the donation campaign link from his Facebook page. It was removed after the father reduced the initial $1 million request to $100,000 and donors had contributed $145.
“We are reaching out to anyone that can help. Our son was sexualy (sic) assaulted and we are now faced with the challenge of picking up the pieces, the emotional and financial burden is about more than we can endure.. Please. Anything helps.. God bless and be with you all..” the father had written in the original plea.
Police Chief Mike Chitwood was dumbfounded Monday when he learned that the youngster’s father had posted the child’s photograph on Facebook and that he was asking for funds.
“It’s sad,” the chief said. “You don’t go out and exploit what happened to this young man (the son) for money.”
Chitwood explained how investigators and mental health officials who work with victims of sexual abuse strive to protect their identities.
“This is unbelievable,” Chitwood said. “The stigma that goes with being sexually abused is terrible.”
The 11-year-old rape victim’s father gained international attention overnight after the story of him beating Raymond Frolander was published Friday. Along with a jail photo of Frolander’s bloody and swollen face, the father’s pronouncement to a dispatcher in a 9-1-1 call that he knocked his son’s attacker cold has attracted worldwide interest.
“I just walked in on a grown man molesting ...,” the upset father told a dispatcher. “And I got him in a bloody puddle for you officer.”
Daytona Beach police said the 35-year-old father — The News-Journal is not publicizing his name so that his son’s identity is not revealed — discovered Frolander and his son early Saturday when he returned to his Daytona Beach apartment after going out to get food, police said.
After the beating, the father dragged Frolander out to his living room and called authorities.
A dismayed Chitwood said he had received emails from all over the world, not just from media outlets, but also from sexual abuse victims who told him that they wished someone had defended them when they were being abused.
While Chitwood spoke positively of the father this past weekend, he was disappointed on Monday with the man’s actions on social media.
The chief said the child told investigators that Frolander had been abusing him since he was 8 years old. The suspect, charged with sexual battery by an 18-year-old on a person under 12, confessed to police. Frolander also told detectives that he, too, had been sexually abused when he was a child at a foster home in California, Chitwood said.
But the story gets even more complex.
Police said Frolander was living in an apartment next to the boy and his father. The suspect, police said, was rooming with the rape victim’s biological mother. Additionally, Frolander’s stepmother is engaged to the rape victim’s father, the chief said. The stepmother was married at one time to Frolander’s biological father.
Frolander’s biological father meanwhile, Mariano Estrella of California, said Monday that Frolander has had behavioral issues since he was a child.
Estrella said he and his ex-wife, who is not being identified to protect the identity of the victim, have three daughters together. He’s afraid the sexual abuse ordeal will cause additional trouble for them and worries it will get them evicted from their apartment.
Estrella wanted Frolander to stay with him in California, but he and the suspect were not getting along. As a result, Estrella said his ex-wife told him that he could send Frolander to Florida and that she and her fiance would try to help him. The suspect’s surname comes from his biological mother, Charity Frolander, also of California.
“I was against the Florida move,” Estrella said Monday in a telephone interview with The Daytona Beach-News-Journal. “He and I came to an impasse about his behavioral issues.”
Without being specific, Estrella said he had concerns about Frolander being left with children.
“There were indications that something was awry with my son,” he said.
Chitwood, meanwhile, said Frolander’s stepmother and her children are being evicted from their Daytona Beach apartment complex, but the eviction is not related to the Frolander incident. On Monday, a relative of the rape victim’s father followed suit and also posted a plea for cash on the gofundme website to help the stepmother move. She is asking for $2,500 and had collected $65.
Court Tosses Man's Child Porn Conviction Over Illegal Government Surveilance
(Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out a man's child-pornography conviction and 18-year prison sentence because of illegal government surveillance.
The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that it was illegal for the U.S. Navy to use a high-powered software program to search private computers throughout the state of Washington for child pornography. The U.S. Department of Justice justified the search by arguing that the Navy investigator was searching for child pornography on military installations in Washington when he came across a private computer containing illegal images.
The three-judge 9th Circuit rejected that argument, ruling that the computer search violated a law barring the U.S. military from taking part in civilian law enforcement activities.
The case started in late 2010 when Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent Steve Logan began investigating, from his office in Georgia, the distribution of child pornography online. Logan used a software program called RoundUp to search computers in the state of Washington sharing child pornography on the Gnutella file-sharing network.
Logan found a computer with child porn images and turned over his findings to federal investigators. U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents obtained a search warrant and arrested and charged Michael Dreyer with possessing child pornography. A jury convicted Dreyer.
But Judge Marsha Berzon, writing for the 2-1 majority, said that the results of the government's search of computers in Washington can't be used to prosecute Logan. Berzon said Logan was permitted to search computers of active military personnel.
"But Agent Logan's search was not reasonably focused on carrying out such a legitimate military investigation," Berzon said.
Judge Diamurid O'Scannlain dissented. O'Scannlain said he saw "no justification for setting a convicted child pornographer free."
A Navy spokesman couldn't be reached for comment Saturday.
(SMH) A Sydney judge has compared incest and paedophilia to homosexuality, saying the community may no longer see sexual contact between siblings and between adults and children as “unnatural” or “taboo”.
District Court Judge Garry Neilson said just as gay sex was socially unacceptable and criminal in the 1950s and 1960s but is now widely accepted, “a jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now ‘available’, not having [a] sexual partner”.
He also said the “only reason” that incest is still a crime is because of the high risk of genetic abnormalities in children born from consanguineous relationships “but even that falls away to an extent [because] there is such ease of contraception and readily access to abortion”.
Judge Neilson made the extraordinary and bizarre comments in the case of a 58-year-old man, known for legal reasons as MRM, who is charged with repeatedly raping his younger sister in the family’s western Sydney home in 1981.
The man had earlier pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his sister when she was 10 or 11 years old in 1973 or 1974 after police recorded a telephone conversation between the siblings in July 2011 in which he admitted to having sexual contact with her when she was “a kid”.
But he has pleaded not guilty to the charge of sexual intercourse without consent, with an alternative charge of incest, regarding the 1981 events.
On April 7 a jury was empanelled and the Crown Prosecutor requested the jurors be told of the earlier misconduct to show MRM had a tendency to have a sexual interest in and have sexual intercourse with his sister.
The Crown argued that without the background information, the jury might find it hard to understand why MRM began raping his sister “out of the blue” and why she did not report it to her parents or police.
In the mid-1970s MRM had warned her not to tell their parents because they had just lost another son in a car crash and she remained fearful of upsetting her parents when the abuse recommenced in 1981.
But Judge Neilson refused to admit the evidence, saying the sexual abuse which had occurred when the girl was 10 or 11 and the youth was 17 occurred in a different context to the sex which happened when she was 18 and he was 26. By 1981, she had had sexual relationships with two men and had a young child.
“By that stage they are both mature adults. The complainant has been sexually awoken, shall we say, by having two relationships with men and she had become ‘free’ when the second relationship broke down,” Judge Neilson said.
“The only thing that might change that is the fact that they were a brother and sister but we’ve come a long way from the 1950s … when the position of the English Common Law was that sex outside marriage was not lawful.”
He went on to say incest only remains a crime “to prevent chromosomal abnormalities” but the availability of contraception and abortion now diminishes that reason.
“If this was the 50s and you had a jury of 12 men there, which is what you’d invariably have, they would say it’s unnatural for a man to be interested in another man or a man being interested in a boy. Those things have gone.”
On Tuesday Crown Prosecutor Sally Dowling SC asked the Court of Criminal Appeal to remit the case to a judge other than Judge Neilson because of the "misogynistic" attitude he displayed towards the complainant.
“These remarks in my submission are completely disgraceful,” Ms Dowling said.
"The reference to abortion is particularly repellent.”
Justices Arthur Emmett, Derek Price and Elizabeth Fullerton reserved their decision.
Adults Surviving Child Abuse president Dr Cathy Kezelman said: "To equate homosexuality, incest and the crime of child sexual assault is as ill-informed as it is outrageous. For it to be paraded by a Judge in Australia in 2014 during the time of the Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse, or at any time, is beyond belief. Literally thousands of survivors of child sexual abuse have given testimony before the commission of the decades of damage their abuse has caused," Dr Kezelman said.
"The relational betrayal of the horrors of incest between a brother and sister of any age is abhorrently criminal. Failure to understand that prior abuse disempowers the victim establishing the ground for future assaults is ignorant. This together with referring to a sibling as being sexually ‘free’ or ‘available’ demands strict censure."
Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston called for Judge Neilson to step down from the bench for "ludicrous and obscene remarks".
"These comments are offensive to every child, every victim, every homosexual person in this country."
Ms Johnston also called on the case to be referred to the current Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Source:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/judge-compares-incest-and-paedophilia-to-past-attitudes-towards-homosexuality-claiming-they-might-not-be-taboo-anymore-20140709-zt0v2.html
The fact that the son stopped his dad from killing the "rapist" tells me that this was a mutual consensual loving relationship between the two boys. Anyone with two brain cells can see it. That, coupled with the blatant fact that the local police, including the police chief, are obviously dealing out their own brand of "justice" instead of letting the local District Attorney make the decision to prosecute or not, tells me that they have an obvious prejudice and that they think that they don't need a judge or jury to prosecute "child rapists". OK so I've ranted on long enough. Here's the articles along with source links.
'My son saved his attacker's life': Father who brutally beat teen he caught raping his son, 11, reveals it was only his boy's pleas that saved the pedophile from death as he says his family refuse to hide
- Jason Browning, 35, shockingly admits he would have killed Raymond Frolander, 18, if not for his son stopping him
- Mr Browning beat Frolander unconscious after walking in on the pervert performing a sex act on his son while naked
- 'I just snapped,' he admitted after the beating at his Florida home - he will not be charged with any crime for his actions
- Frolander admitted to police he has been molesting the boy for three years and was charged with sexual battery on a child under 12
- The father created a Gofundme donations page asking for $1million for his son - but later took it down
- Frolander lived next door to 11-year-old and his father with the victim's biological mother. The suspect's stepmother is engaged to victim's father
The father who beat a man he allegedly caught performing a sex act on his 11-year-old son has admitted that it was only his son's pleas which stopped him from killing the admitted pervert.
Jason Browning said he was going to stab Raymond Frolander, 18, to death after he beat him unconscious but that his son stood up and stopped him from killing the man.
Frolander later admitted to Florida police that he has been molesting the boy for three years.
'I was going to kill him': Jason Browning says his son saved the life of a man who had been molesting the 11-year-old since he was just eight
'My son is the one who stepped in front of me and stopped me. My son saved his attackers life, so who's really the hero in this situation?' the father asked WKMG outside the Daytona beach courthouse shortly after Frolander's first court appearance.
Browning admitted he 'just snapped' when he walked in on Frolander naked with his son. Shortly after beating the teen into a coma, he went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, he said.
'I was going to kill him,' said Browning.
Frolander was considered family by the Brownings and often spent time with the 11-year-old boy, the father said.
'There was nothing uncommon to let the kids go in the bedroom and play video games together and now I have to wonder why the door was shut,' Mr Browning said.
The father's outrage comes from being molested himself as a child at a foster home in California. He said beating Frolander was the easy part and much harder days lie ahead.
'I'm not going to pressure anything on him,' Mr Browning said. 'I know exactly what he's going through, when he's ready to talk about it, he will.'
Police defended Mr Browning's actions but later criticized him for creating a Gofundme page asking for $1million in donations.
Initially entitled 'Rebuilding Innocence', the fundraising page featured a picture of a sleeping boy and linked the site to his Facebook profile, according to News-Journal Online.
Mr Browning wrote: 'We are reaching out to anyone that can help. Our son was sexualy (sic) assaulted and we are now faced with the challenge of picking up the pieces, the emotional and financial burden is about more than we can endure.. Please.. Anything helps.. God bless and be with you all.'
Father and son: Browning and his 11-year-old son, who police said Frolander admitted to molesting for three years before the father pummeled him and called 911 to ask for an ambulance
By Monday evening, $145 had been donated but the picture of the sleeping boy was removed. The headline became 'Help Restore My Son’s Innocence' and the amount of money being asked for dropped to $100,000.
The Gofundme page appeared to have been taken down from the charity site by Tuesday.
Police Chief Mike Chitwood said he was sad to learn of the father's attempt to make money out of the situation.
He told MailOnline on Tuesday: 'It was brought to my attention and I have to say I was pretty shocked.
'The police, investigators and prosecutors go to great lengths to protect victims of sexual abuse. I'm sure his [Mr Browning's] intentions are in the right place but this is not good for the young man's recovery.'
Chief Chitwood also said that he had hundreds of emails relating to the case, many from victims of sexual abuse and their families.
He said: 'Many of them said that they wished someone - a father, mother, big brother - had walked in when it was happening to them.'
Beaten down: Raymond Frolander was barely recognizable in his first court appearance after the savage pounding
Raymond Frolander, 18, was treated at hospital before being taken to the closest police station, and his still-swollen face was evident from the beating he received only days ago.
Frolander, still covered in bruises and with a swollen face, pleaded not guilty to sexual battery on a child after he admitted to molesting the boy for years.
The father has not been charged with a crime and police appeared to understand his reaction.
'Dad was acting like a dad. I don't see anything we should charge the dad with,' Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood told WFTS.
'You have an 18-year-old who has clearly picked his target, groomed his target and had sex with the victim multiple times.'
A subsequent mugshot showed that Frolander had been badly beaten around the face, leaving him with swollen lips and eyes, bruising and lacerations.
Raymond Frolander, 18, (pictured in his mugshot) was beaten to a pulp by the father of the 11-year-old boy that he allegedly caught his sexually assaulting at a home in Daytona Beach, Florida
When the 911 responder asked the father if any weapons were involved, he said: 'My foot and my fist'.
The 35-year-old man, who has not been identified, told a 911 dispatcher in the early hours of Friday: 'I just walked in on a grown man molesting [name redacted]. And I got him in a bloody puddle for you right now, officer.'
Police arrived at the Daytona Beach home in Florida to find Frolander unconscious.
'He is nice and knocked out on the floor for you, I dragged him into the living room,' the father said. 'Send an ambulance. He is going to need one.'
The dispatcher asked: 'Is he still unconscious?' to which the father responds: 'Yes... I hit hard, sir.'
He said that Frolander was a 'damn lucky boy that I love my God'.
The father added: 'He stood up and his pants were around his ankles and nothing else needed to be said. I did whatever I got a right to do except I didn’t kill him.'
The father had left his home around 1am to pick up some food and when he returned, heard a strange noise coming from the bedroom, police said.
He pushed open the door and allegedly found Frolander with his pants down performing a sex act on the child.
Frolander, 18, admitted to the abuse on the 11-year-old, according to his arrest affidavit. He is being held without bail on charges of sexual battery
The boy told investigators he had been playing video games with friends but when they left, Frolander took him to a back room and pulled down his pants. He also said Frolander had been abusing him for three years.
Daytona Beach police chief Michael Chitwood told MailOnline today that Frolander had a close family connection to the alleged victim.
Today the chief said he believed that Frolander lived next door to the boy and his father. The suspect was living with the victim's biological mother. Frolander's stepmother is also engaged to the victim's father.
The police chief said the young boy was intimidated and told by Frolander that terrible things would happen if he revealed the abuse.
Chief Chitwood said: 'He's 11 years old, he should be running around outside and playing video games, not dealing with something like this.'
The father was not charged in the suspect’s beating, police spokesman Jimmie Flynt said.
Frolander was taken to Halifax Heath Medical Center where he was treated for his injuries.
The arrest affidavit said that Frolander admitted the abuse.
The teen was charged with sexual battery on a child under 12 and is being held without bail. It was not known whether he's hired a lawyer.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... death.htmlDaytona Beach dad speaks out after attacking son's alleged abuser
Father beat man unconscious after he says he found him sexually abusing boy
The Volusia County father who beat up an 18-year-old who he says sexually abused his 11-year-old son says he doesn't want his family to hide what they have been through.
Jason Browning says he has been the victim of sexual abuse and says he wanted to kill Jason Frolander when he allegedly caught him naked with his son.
Browning says not only did he beat him, he went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
"My son is the one who stepped in front of me and stopped me. My son saved his attackers life, so who's really the hero in this situation?" he said.
Browning says Frolander was like family, and it was not unsual for him to be alone with his kids.
"There was nothing uncommon to let the kids go in the bedroom and play video games together and now I have to wonder why the door was shut," Browning said.
Browning says he too was victimized as a child. He says stopping the attack was the easy part, talking to his son about it has been much more difficult.
"I'm not going to pressure anything on him, like I said i know exactly what he's going through, when he's ready to talk about it, he will," he said.
Frolander is behind bars in the Volusia County jail.
Source: http://www.clickorlando.com/news/dayton ... r/27075404Daytona Beach father who beat up rape suspect asked for donations
DAYTONA BEACH — The father who pummeled an 18-year-old man police say was sexually battering his son put his son’s picture on social media Monday and initially asked for $1 million in donations to help rebuild the child’s life.
“Rebuilding Innocence” was the headline atop a picture of a sleeping boy on a website called gofundme.com. The father posted a link to the website on his Facebook page.
A few hours after the original Facebook post Monday, however, the son’s picture was removed from the gofundme page. More description was added and the headline was changed to “Help Restore My Son’s Innocence.” And by 9 p.m. Monday, the father had pulled down the page and removed the donation campaign link from his Facebook page. It was removed after the father reduced the initial $1 million request to $100,000 and donors had contributed $145.
“We are reaching out to anyone that can help. Our son was sexualy (sic) assaulted and we are now faced with the challenge of picking up the pieces, the emotional and financial burden is about more than we can endure.. Please. Anything helps.. God bless and be with you all..” the father had written in the original plea.
Police Chief Mike Chitwood was dumbfounded Monday when he learned that the youngster’s father had posted the child’s photograph on Facebook and that he was asking for funds.
“It’s sad,” the chief said. “You don’t go out and exploit what happened to this young man (the son) for money.”
Chitwood explained how investigators and mental health officials who work with victims of sexual abuse strive to protect their identities.
“This is unbelievable,” Chitwood said. “The stigma that goes with being sexually abused is terrible.”
The 11-year-old rape victim’s father gained international attention overnight after the story of him beating Raymond Frolander was published Friday. Along with a jail photo of Frolander’s bloody and swollen face, the father’s pronouncement to a dispatcher in a 9-1-1 call that he knocked his son’s attacker cold has attracted worldwide interest.
“I just walked in on a grown man molesting ...,” the upset father told a dispatcher. “And I got him in a bloody puddle for you officer.”
Daytona Beach police said the 35-year-old father — The News-Journal is not publicizing his name so that his son’s identity is not revealed — discovered Frolander and his son early Saturday when he returned to his Daytona Beach apartment after going out to get food, police said.
After the beating, the father dragged Frolander out to his living room and called authorities.
A dismayed Chitwood said he had received emails from all over the world, not just from media outlets, but also from sexual abuse victims who told him that they wished someone had defended them when they were being abused.
While Chitwood spoke positively of the father this past weekend, he was disappointed on Monday with the man’s actions on social media.
The chief said the child told investigators that Frolander had been abusing him since he was 8 years old. The suspect, charged with sexual battery by an 18-year-old on a person under 12, confessed to police. Frolander also told detectives that he, too, had been sexually abused when he was a child at a foster home in California, Chitwood said.
But the story gets even more complex.
Police said Frolander was living in an apartment next to the boy and his father. The suspect, police said, was rooming with the rape victim’s biological mother. Additionally, Frolander’s stepmother is engaged to the rape victim’s father, the chief said. The stepmother was married at one time to Frolander’s biological father.
Frolander’s biological father meanwhile, Mariano Estrella of California, said Monday that Frolander has had behavioral issues since he was a child.
Estrella said he and his ex-wife, who is not being identified to protect the identity of the victim, have three daughters together. He’s afraid the sexual abuse ordeal will cause additional trouble for them and worries it will get them evicted from their apartment.
Estrella wanted Frolander to stay with him in California, but he and the suspect were not getting along. As a result, Estrella said his ex-wife told him that he could send Frolander to Florida and that she and her fiance would try to help him. The suspect’s surname comes from his biological mother, Charity Frolander, also of California.
“I was against the Florida move,” Estrella said Monday in a telephone interview with The Daytona Beach-News-Journal. “He and I came to an impasse about his behavioral issues.”
Without being specific, Estrella said he had concerns about Frolander being left with children.
“There were indications that something was awry with my son,” he said.
Chitwood, meanwhile, said Frolander’s stepmother and her children are being evicted from their Daytona Beach apartment complex, but the eviction is not related to the Frolander incident. On Monday, a relative of the rape victim’s father followed suit and also posted a plea for cash on the gofundme website to help the stepmother move. She is asking for $2,500 and had collected $65.
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Thanks for sharing that Capt. I will reserve judgment if the boy was okay with it all, I mean 11 years-old and all. In todays world that equates to age 13 -14intellectually. I think that the boy stopped dad speaks for itself. And DAD trying to cash in on it all? hahaha, amazing. laughable even (maybe). Umm, yes, I'll leave it at that.