Douglasville Police in Georgia charged Charlie Mayes with first-degree child cruelty. Mayes, a 40-year-0ld military veteran with no criminal record punished his 16-year-old son when he didn’t do his chores and homework by having him carry a 23-pound landscape stone.
According to a statement made to reporters by Police Sgt. Todd Garner, “This was done multiple times over a three-day period, sometimes as early as 3 o’clock in the morning,”
“In between that time, he was at home having to move rocks and stuff from one side of the back yard to the other and then being taken right back out to the same location and dropped off and made to walk back again,” Garner said.
After a pizza delivery driver alerted police of the teen’s odd punishment, Mayes freely admitted to the military style of punishment. “He did not feel that this was inappropriate at all and neither did his wife,” Sgt. Garner stated to reporters.
Mayes was released from jail on a $3,500 bond. A judge ordered the father to family counseling. Do you think that the punishment was too harsh?
…the police need to leave Mr. Mayes alone and let him raise his child to manhood…and Mayes needs to sue the Douglassville police for harassment, and any other charges that their crime might fall under…
I want to see the arresting officer and ask him What the fuck was he thinking arresting this man. He has done nothing wrong in punishing his son the way he did. If i was a police officer in Douglasville I would of quit. Stupidity…