Father who beat to death man he caught raping his 5yr old daughter won't face charges

A Texas father who discovered a man
raping his five-year-old daughter and
beat him to death with his bare hands
will not be charged with homicide under
state law.
A Lavaca County grand jury decided not
to press charges against the 23-year-
old father in the June 9th death of Jesus
Mora Flores, 47, who was killed inside a
remote shack after he was caught
molesting the young girl.
Under Texas state law, deadly force is
authorized and indeed, justified in order
to stop an aggravated sexual assault
and coupled with the fact that the
harrowing 911 calls made by the father
back claims he even tried to save the
pedophile's life led to the grand jury's
decision.
Lavaca County sheriff's deputies said
that the father, whose name has not
been released to protect the little girl's
identity, sent her and her brother to
feed the family's chickens.
The boy rushed back to tell his dad that
someone had grabbed his sister and
taken her to a small secluded shack and
the father rushed towards his
daughter's screams and arrived to find
them both with their underwear off.
Flying into a rage, the father beat Flores
unconscious, but attempted to call 911
for the rapist after he had made sure
his daughter was safe.
Sheriff Micah Harmon had said in June
that he was not willing to press charges
against the father, rather the case would
be presented to a grand jury. At the
time, Harmon said that the man was
'very remorseful' and didn't know at the
time he had killed Flores.
'You have a right to defend your
daughter,' Harmon told CNN at the time.
'The girl's father acted in defense of his
third person. Once the investigation is
completed we will submit it to the
district attorney who then submits it to
the grand jury, who will decide if they
will indict him.'
Indeed, the father is heard profanely
screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't
locate the property.
Becoming increasingly frazzled, the
father at one point tells the dispatcher
he's going to put the man in his truck
and drive him to a hospital before
sheriff's deputies finally arrive.
V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney,
sternly told reporters several times
during a news conference at the Lavaca
County courthouse that neither the
father nor the family will ever give
interviews.
'He's a peaceable soul,' Huser said. 'He
had no intention to kill anybody that
day.'
The attack happened on the family's
ranch off a quiet, two-lane county road
between the farming towns of Shiner
and Yoakum.
Authorities say a witness saw Flores
'forcibly carrying' the girl into a
secluded area and then scrambled to
find the father. Running toward his
daughter's screams, investigators said,
the father pulled Flores off his child and
'inflicted several blows to the man's
head and neck area.'
Emergency crews found Flores' pants
and underwear pulled down on his
lifeless body by the time they responded
to the 911 call.
The girl was taken to a hospital and
examined, and authorities say forensic
evidence and witness accounts
corroborated the father's story that his
daughter was being sexually molested.
'Under the law in the state of Texas
deadly force is authorized and justified
in order to stop an aggravated sexual
assault or sexual assault,' District
Attorney Heather McMinn told reporters
in June.
All the evidence provided by the
sheriff's department and the Texas
Rangers indicated that's what was
occurring when the victim's father
arrived at the scene,' she said.
Authorities said he expressed regret at
the killing at the time, and no evidence
so far has led them to doubt his story.
The girl's grandfather agreed it had
been an accident.
'My son. Sorry,' the grandfather told the
Victoria Advocate in broken English. 'It
was an accident.'
Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon
added: 'He was very remorseful. I don't
think it was his intent for the man to
die.'
Residents of the small Lavaca County
town were largely in support of the
father, saying the victim deserved it.
Sonny Jaehne, a Shiner native, told the
Victoria Advocate: 'He got what he
deserved, big time.
Friend Mark Harabis reiterated this: 'I
agree with him totally. I would probably
do worse.
'The family will have to deal with that
the rest of their lives, no matter what
happens to the father. Even if they let
him go, he and his child will have to
deal with that the rest of their lives.'