Jury convicts father of fatally battering boy

[kweerwolf]

A Tampa man accused of beating his 3-year-old son to death was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday.

Jurors deliberated a little more than three hours before finding Ronnie B. Paris Jr. guilty of the killing and of aggravated child abuse.

Paris' conviction comes seven months after his son died at St. Joseph's Hospital. The toddler was rushed to the hospital on Jan. 22, a day after his mother said she saw Paris, 21, slam the boy against the wall at a friend's home. The toddler died six days later, after he was taken off life support.

The beating was not the first the boy had endured. Family and friends testified during the emotional four-day trial that Paris sometimes got rough while play fighting with the boy. Real men are tough, he told friends who scolded him about the roughhousing. He said he wanted his son to grow up to be a real man, not a "sissy," witnesses testified.

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Miami columnist Leonard Pitt did a recent column on this murder that included this:

Maybe it's not too much to ask also that a father teach his son that "gay" is not something you can knock out of a child. Nor should you want to.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/3269823

[Deep13]

1. He won't grow up to be a "sissy" now.

:sarcasm:
Won't be anything else, either. Real men have no emotions except for anger. Apparently, this asshole would rather commit murder on his own family than challenge that assertion.

[Burma Jones]

2. I have a cousin whose father tried to beat the sissy out of him

That Cousin is now on his third wife, has six children and is one confused Western Tennessee evangelical Christian. As my family from there says, "well, he was raised by women" :eyes:

He is also the most effeminate man I've ever met, and I've worked in the traditionally Gay-Friendly theatre business, have performed in musicals and sang opera....

I avoid that side of the family.......