An American father who bashed the babysitter he caught allegedly molesting his 11-year-old son said he would have killed the man if it had not been by his child.
Jason Browning, of Florida, told WKMG-TV that he grabbed a butcher's knife from the kitchen as Raymond Frolander, 18, lay bloodied on the floor of his Daytona Beach home on July 18.
"I was going to kill him," Mr Browning said.
"My son is the one who stepped in front of me and stopped me.
"So who's really the hero in this situation?"
Mr Browning, who had himself been abused as a child, said he snapped when he walked into a bedroom to find the family's long-time babysitter allegedly sexually assaulting his son.
"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," he said.
Frolander, who posed bruised and swollen for a police mug shot that has gone viral, was charged with sexual battery of a child and held without bail after allegedly admitting to abusing the boy over a three-year period.
Mr Browning will not face any charges for his attack, with local police chief Michael Chitwood telling CNN at the weekend that he would be "looking the other way". lucky he doesn't live in Australia
The father said he was yet to face the difficult task of discussing the abuse with his son.
"I'm not going to pressure anything on him," he said.
"Like I said, I know exactly what he's going through. When he's ready to talk about it, he will."
Forum
Pages: 1 
