I would have done a hell of a lot more than hit him with a baseball bat!
Awesome display of the justice system. AGAIN!
A US paraplegic was charged with assault after he attempted to make a citizen's arrest of a three-year-old girl's alleged molester. Frank Herbert, a 57-year-old Martha's Vineyard computer salesman, says his girlfriend's three-year-old granddaughter began asking for protection from her stepfather in December, the Boston Herald reports.
Herbert lured the stepfather, 27-year-old Joshua Hardy, to his computer sales and service shop in February while Herbert's girlfriend took the three-year-old to talk to police. Herbert - who lost the use of his legs and only has partial use of his arms as a result of a car accident - brought a baseball bat to the meeting.
Herbert says he pointed the bat at Hardy and ordered him to stay seated until state police arrived, but says Hardy stood up and laughed at him. Herbert then hit Hardy with the Louisville Slugger.
It was not until after Hardy was charged in connection with the alleged abuse that Herbert was summoned to Edgartown District Court in Martha's Vineyard on March 25 and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
"I'm not a hero, that's for damn sure," Mr Herbert told the
Herald. "I'd do it again tomorrow, knowing the consequence. I didn't have a choice … This is not about me. This is about a tiny child."
Mr Hardy was arraigned on February 23 on three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, one count of enticing a child and one count of disseminating obscene material. An investigation into separate accusations from another victim led to two more counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.
Mr Herbert is due in court for a pretrial conference on May 2.
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