Man Pleads Guilty: Using Cricket Bat To Beat Boy
A 46-year-old man appeared in Magistrates Court this morning [June 5] where he was remanded in custody after admitting to using a cricket bat to beat a middle school student.
Glen Fox, a resident of the Emergency Shelter at Southside, pleaded to unlawful assault and possessing an offensive weapon – a cricket bat – which he had grabbed from the boy who had been playing cricket with his friends.
The offence took place on Sunday 2nd June. The facts read out to Senior Magistrate Archie Warner were that Fox had grabbed the cricket bat from the victim and had used it to beat the boy.
In the course of the beating, the boy had fallen down and Fox had continued beating him. The boy managed to get up and run into the shelter where the boy’s father intervened; and Police were called.
Police attended and arrested Fox. Since the incident was captured on CCTV, Police reviewed the tapes and raised charges against Mr Fox.
In Court this morning, Mr Fox told the Magistrate that he acted as a father figure and role model to boys in the area. Mr Fox said that the teenager was developing ‘gang associations’ and that he had acted to stop that.
The Magistrate said that Mr Fox had no right to treat a child in that manner and said further, that based on his record, Mr Fox had no right to be around children as any kind of role model. Fox insisted that he believed that he was doing the right thing.
Magistrate Warner ordered a Social Inquiry Report and remanded Mr Fox into custody until next month when Fox will return for sentencing.
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When parents and the Police don’t do their jobs…chaos reigns! Here we have vigilante justice…no!?
Good… I’m glad he cut his lil a**.Thats what a lot of these children need!!!!
you are a vile man it does not requirer a boy to almost get betten to death. the morgoity of children are lovely children who would do anything to help people just some decide to get in gangs and PLAY CRICKET,
From A 11 yr old boy
I was amazed to see a Police Officer w/gun and tazer get out of a patrol car and walk down Reid Street the other day and not say anything to a punk who was doing a delivery for BDA Import Export. This kid had finished his delivery and was walking back to the van and walked right into his path and shoulder brushed him as if he owned the street. The Officer just kept walking. Are these Police Officers scared!? I would have at least said something to him about manners. I could not believe what my eyes had just saw. I know the Police are taught to have restraint but please, show some balls!
What was the man doing wrong? Ok, so shoulder-brushing can be seen as “unmannerly”, but you can’t get arrested for not using your manners as that’s not against the law. Do you want the police to arrest every “punk” you see working on a truck? Then there will be complaints about targeting “young men who are just trying to do an honest day’s work”.
So then,,,what did you do or say about it to this punk, My guess is nothing!
I did NOTHING smart a$$. He didn’t shoulder me. He would have known about it if HE HAD DONE IT TO ME!!
@Spike….Did you read the article? this man is a bully beating a child with a cricket bat, and continuing to beat him while he is on the ground!!! coward!what kind of father/role model is that?. As the report said due to his past record he is not supposed to be around children anyway!!!hmmmm! That says alot to me. All children need some form of discipline and role model but he sure ain’t!!.
Um Lots of people with records become GREAT role models! WHy? Because they can tell them what not to do. Mr. Fox sounds old school, which is why he beat him, not that I agree with the beating, but his intentions were honorable. Stop the ‘child’ before he becomes another one of these thugs out here.
@Susan…”kid” had the bat first and was givin’ lip to Fox sweetheart! Beatdown commences…not everyone in the community is as forgiving of “children” who give lip. He should have pled not guilty in self defense!
Curious as to what your take would be if he caused him brain damage or killed him as both can be caused by repeated blows to the head….would you still hail him as a “hero”….bad judgement call on Fox’s behalf….now he has another paragraph to add to his criminal record……Hope it was worth it…….
@Tricks…as Justin Timberlake sings “CRY ME A RIVER!”
@ Truth…I could actually care less…it was just a question to open further dialogue…..not taking sides as I know neither party…and for the record I hate Justin Timberlake…..
Good for the child some of them need a good BA.
well done mate we all need to play cup match on these lil bad a$$es
What did this kid do at that moment to cause Mr. Fox to grab the cricket bat from him, and beat him?
Please Read People!!!!! The article said he was playing cricket with his friends. It didn’t say anything about the minor being disrespectful to the adult male. And to beat him with a cricket bat. Wow. Yes I agree rude kids need discipline, but to beat him with a cricket bat. Another thing, the article doesn’t state that the adult male beat the minor after the minor verbally abused the adult. It clearly says he was playing cricket. And for the Magistrate to say ” Based on his record he has NO RIGHT being around CHILDREN. What does that tell you???
@countrygirl
I will tell you what it tells us. Not enough information about this case to make a judgement!
I totally agree because I am lost for words because there is not enough information given here, to even come to the conclusion to even say that the boy and his friends were disrespectful.
So I think it is wrong for any of us to come to a conclusion of the matter when we were not there, and the story seems to be incomplete.
There is a huge difference between corporal punishment and physical abuse. I make sparing use of corporal punishment in a constructive manner from time to time only when other methods have failed. I’ll say that, with the information currently provided, I don’t see how a beating with a cricket bat could not be considered abusive.
However, the fellow was able to get up and run away so perhaps it wasn’t extraordinarily excessive. Still, as adults we must set the example and a cricket bat beating just doesn’t sit right with me. It doesn’t sound controlled or constructive.
It seems he graded the nearest thing and starting to swing with it. If that is the case then it is a recipe for disaster. It teaches the child that when he/she gets mad the correct response is to go wild. What happens in future when, as an adult, they get mad at their partner or child and unleash the wild violence they have been taught is acceptable?
I’m all for corporal punishment as the last resort but firmly against beatings.
Ride
@ Ride,
If we were talking about 15 years ago, I would have to agree with you, however times have changed. I got beatings from my parents, and that is the reason why I am not out there in the street acting the @ss. Spare the rod, spoil the child.
@Bermuda Cat
I too was beaten but I made a choice that I would not beat but would use corporal punishment as a last resort and in a controlled and constructive manner.
There are levels of escalation that are clear and consistent. On the few occasions that a corporal response is reached the little terror fully understands through the constructive preamble that he wilfully rejected the previous opportunities offered to escape that outcome. The preamble serves to give me time to calm so I do not strike in anger and remind him of his choices that led him to this stage. The punishment is communicate before being issued so that he knows the start, duration, and end. It is not excessive and intended to provide significant discomfort rather than to harm.
There is no excuse to continue to the cycle of violence. “Scripture” is no excuse for beating. I find it odd that scriptural people can apply “interpretations” to so many passages. However, when it comes to violence against children it is taken as literal. Consider for a moment that “the rod” is not a literal stick but rather a metaphor for constructive, measured, controlled discipline.
Ride
Ok so how do you interpret this scripture:
Proverbs 23:
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
I think Mr. Fox was trying to apply verse 14, delivering his soul from hell/corrupt life. He shouldn’t have used a bat tho.
@Tough Love
I’d interpret it as these people used to physically abuse their children and that I have the presence of mind, ability of independent thought, and manifestation of parental love not to blindly follow the words some group of fellows scraped together a couple of thousand years ago (translated and re-translated over and over again) as a means to “convert” and control a group of people.
Have a read of some more of their “directives” regarding women and the like. Either you accept them all or you accept none. Don’t just cherry pick the ones that suit you’re twisted excuse to abuse.
Ride
Spare the rod not spare the bat. For a grown man to assault a minor with a criket bat is a most egregious offence as well as cowardly.
Let’s keep this in perspective and call it what it is. An assault on a minor with a weapon.
Furthermore your parents were qualified to discipline you and did it out of love. Big difference here.
And for the record the young victim has his father there for him as it was he who called the police.
There is always more to the story. Older folks used to say there were three side to a story.
I know Mr. Fox. We come from a generation when we respected our elders and authority, but disrespect from youth was not tolerated. The minute the young man started to give ‘chat’, and was disrespectful, he was in trouble.
Many parents raise children without discipline. Then when the child goes wayward, they cry in the courts begging the authorities to ‘give them a chance’.
Mr. Fox would never beat a person for no reason. There would have to have been probable cause.
Do a ‘Social Inquiry Report’ on the young man. I’ll bet he isn’t as innocent as this story portrays him to be.
He did not have a legitimate reason to beat a minor with a bat. I come from a generation slightly older than this coward and my generation would never stoop to such cowardly behaviour.
Would you be so supportive if it were your son or daughter, niec or nephew? No!
What an incredibly idiotic statement. “Mr. Fox would never beat a person for no reason.” So he has evidently beat people in the past for good reason. We are talking about a child.
“Child”…puuulease…you’re talking like this kid was seven years old! You’re an enabler of all this dumb crap that is going on in this island today!!!
I understand this didn’t happen, but please read my blog.
My father beat my a$$ a few times and so did my grandfather. Trust me when I tell you this is why I’m not out there breaking in houses and breaking people up. I feared my dad I was never afraid of the police or anyone. More of these kids need to get a good beating from their parents and then maybe we wouldn’t have all this crazy stuff going on in Bermuda. Back in the day you could leave your windows up so Dad tells me, try that now it’s like saying come in and steal my stuff.
Did they beat you with a criket bat? Case closed. How do we know that this kid does not get disciplined by his parents?
@ Sanity is back
Another dumb fool not reading what they wrote.
The writer above stated! “I understand this didn’t happen, but please read my blog”, so why the hell did you ask them if they beat them with a cricket bat, which you also spelled wrong.
well does talking work anymore?
some of them need their hands cut off
you don’t really think that the people that really control this island want productive little black boys do you?
As a female child who was not spared the rod. I’ve never seen a kid in public get beat who didn’t have it coming. And in a time when you read in the press about father and son duos having charges pressed for possession, robbery, assault – there is clearly more to this story.
And I wish we would go back to the days of spanking ( i was spanked with sting nettles on occasion ) and never considered calling Sheilagh Cooper. And when I announced I was running away my mom told me “Fine. Pick your favorite toy and clothes and I will drop you to the police station or home of your choice”.
You’ve taken the tools away from parents and neighborhoods to parent. Most people can tell you a parent grabbed what was available to correct/thrash a child/youth who needed it.
Now you’ve empowered this youth and his peers to believe the law is on their side till they end up in the courts one day and have a strike against their record hindering employment and upward mobility options.
From what they tell me —
This so called Child or victim has been described as a rude,violent,disrespectful, Dangerous Gang Member
by people living in the area thus believe the actions by Mr.Fox was brave and Justified.
They describe this so called Child as a person who has connections with a Gang from the Central Parishes who has been
involved despite his age.
Hat’s off to Mr.Fox !
PLEASE for all those people who are grateful for the licks they got and think that’s the reason they’re not in prison…**GO TO THE PRISONS AND TAKE A POLL OF HOW MANY OF THE MEN THERE WERE BEATEN AS CHILDREN** you will get a response very close to 100%. Beating children does NOT protect them from becoming involved in criminal activity.
Love, nurturing, care, concern, good role modeling, teaching appropriate behavior/with consistent consequences, and respect. THESE things keep children out of prison. It is NEVER necessary to beat children. **DO a POLL IN THE GENERAL POPULATION OF ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT RECEIVE LICKS – FIND OUT HOW MANY OF THEM ARE INVOLVED IN CRIME**
Come on, someone do it – cuz talking this nonsense doesn’t work. Get the FACTS!!!!
Sounds like a job for Cordell Riley!
I’m sorry but some of the youth today are disrespectful. If you don’t correct them , they will be out of control and think they have the power to do whatever they want. In not saying a bat is the answer to beat the youth but a good cut @ss should teach them a lesson.
This is crazy, correcting a child is one thing but to beat him with a bat is something totally different. Its a violent act and the man should know better, next time handle the situation better next time as an ADULT not beat him like an ANIMAL. Piss-pore role model for the boy and his friends who was watching, then adults wonder why children have lost respect look at how adults carry on in front of them.
what is wrong with you people, and you dare to wonder why these rude little suckers are this way. when was the last time you heard your neighbor beat their child(ren)? Rare these day, i guess no one does it anymore, it’s apparently “bad for children’s self esteem”, ha! what a bunch of BS. ya well you parents can keep cuddling your disrespectful little ba$tard$ until they turn on you. and yes, i got some unholy whoopa$$ beatings growing up. My now 24yr old son stole a bike when he was 10 and i whooped his a$$ proper – no more stealing – case closed. By the way he has never joined any gangs; but he’s had to fight gang members for his right to stay out of them (Gangs), imagine that.
It seems more logical to pay some high fee to an ultra educated ‘Social Worker’, to solve youth issues, then rely on the old proven ways that worked.
Children do need (as stated above)love, nurturing, care, concern, good role modeling, teaching appropriate behavior/with consistent consequences, and respect. By design, these things are to be given by both parents (mothers and fathers) in order for it to work.
When a modified path to raising children is taken, then all must hope for the best. Some children when around parents and familiar adults, tend to act like little darlings. But when left among their peers, act like piranhas with no sense.
If you have children but do not put effort into raising them, then trust me…….. someone else will have time to teach your child the hard lessons of life. The gov has a huge dept dedicated to raise and correct wayward children. From early.
people always complaining about these youths going down the wrong path, So old school cuts his behind and he should have gotten a talking to, not arrested. These out of control young folks need a lashing. GOOD for you Mr. Fox