Daytona Beach dad speaks out after attacking son's alleged abuser
Father beat man unconscious after he says he found him sexually abusing boy
The Volusia County father who beat up an 18-year-old who he says sexually abused his 11-year-old son says he doesn't want his family to hide what they have been through.
[Warning, content may be graphic | AUDIO: 911 call]
Jason Browning says he has been the victim of sexual abuse and says he wanted to kill Jason Frolander when he allegedly caught him naked with his son.
Browning says not only did he beat him, he went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
"My son is the one who stepped in front of me and stopped me. My son saved his attackers life, so who's really the hero in this situation?" he said.
Browning says Frolander was like family, and it was not unsual for him to be alone with his kids.
"There was nothing uncommon to let the kids go in the bedroom and play video games together and now I have to wonder why the door was shut," Browning said.
"Doors" opening and closing in Statement Analysis: This often enters the language of those sexually victimized in childhood
Browning says he too was victimized as a child. He says stopping the attack was the easy part, talking to his son about it has been much more difficult.
This helps explain the rage.
"I'm not going to pressure anything on him, like I said i know exactly what he's going through, when he's ready to talk about it, he will," he said.
Frolander is behind bars in the Volusia County jail.
41 comments:
Wow.
Applaud's dad. His son knew his dad would be punished, probably more severely than the abuser.
The system is much too lenient on abusers.
Yes, it does explain the one step past dad's rage...not apologetic in the least, and the verbally lifting up his son to boot. Good daddy.
Hats off to the Volusia PD for charging the right man!
I'm enjoying that photograph. This is what all child abusers should look like.
There is a missing woman in MO, and her husband's statements are odd. He invites people to come and look and have fellowship?
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000630878360
OT Update.
Erica Parsons' adoptive mom speaks out year after reported missing
http://www.wbtv.com/story/26086798/one-year-since-reported-missing-wheres-erica-parsons
Why the cynicism? What do you know about our justice system other than the cases that are unusual enough to make the news? This father was not even arrested.
OT Can you check this out??
Jim Barton 's shift ended at 3:30 p.m., and he left the police station about 4 p.m. after chatting with Springboro Police Chief Robin Hochstrasser, who had spotted Barton and his wife in the park earlier. Barton stopped at a dry cleaners to pick up a police uniform and bought gasoline on his way home, he later told investigators.
He found his wife's partially nude body in their bed. He called the 911 emergency telephone number at 4:33 p.m.
Dispatch: "911, what is your emergency?
Barton , in an anxious but fairly steady voice: "There's a murd . . . My wife has just been killed, I think . . .
"I just got home. . . . All I know is my wife's on the bed, the pillow's over her face. I think she's been shot, I don't know, but my dogs are running loose. I cannot get any, any response, but she's cold. Somebody get here quick, but I think she's . . . I don't know if somebody's committed mur . . . all my guns are laying out in here in the house and everything."
Dispatch: "Stay on the line with me."
Barton : "I got to make sure there's nobody in this house."
Dispatcher: "Hang on . . ." (dispatches crews to scene)
Barton : (15 seconds later) "Get me an emergency squad. Quick."
Dispatcher says to emergency crews, "He thinks she's dead, possibly shot," then to Barton , "Do you know if somebody shot her, er? . . ."
Barton : "I don't . . . All I know is she's laying on the bed with a pillow over her head and there's blood and she's cold. All my guns are laying out in the house on the floor, like somebody's been through my house."
Dispatch: ``Is there a gun by her?"
Barton : "I can't . . . Sir, I ran right out in another room and grabbed the phone, I don't know."
Throughout the nine-minute 911 call, Barton is concerned about checking for intruders.
Dispatch: "Go check if she's breathing or not."
Barton : "She's not breathing, sir. She's cold. There was a pillow over her head and she's not breathing and she's got her clothes off, I don't know what's going on. But get me, get me some help out here quick.
Dispatch: "Go see if she's breathing or not and see where she's been shot at."
Twenty-two seconds later: "Are you there?"
Barton : "Yes . . . I don't know if somebody's still in the house."
Barton calls to his dogs, then to dispatcher, "She's not breathing. She's been gone awhile . . . Get me some help out here. . . . She's gone, she's gone."
Later, when the dispatcher can't get Barton to respond, he says to a coworker, "I heard him in the background. He's shuffling stuff around."
Barton later tells the dispatcher, "They broke in through my garage. . . . That's how they got in, I can see the window . . . Aw, man . . ."
It is interesting how he self edits the word murder. He cannot bring himself to say the word murder.
ALL I KNOW, it is a way of trying to change/end the topic being discussed , it should be noted and explored further as it indicates sensitivity.
Not trying to be funny. But are they white? If so, why are you surprised? White men murder their cheating wives all the time.
Oh dear. he places himself close to the crime with the word THIS, not once but twice.
Absolutely is a qualifier which firther weakens the statement, I'm innocent does not mean he didn't do it.
A strong reliable denial would be first person singular, past tense , event specific.
I did not kill my wife would be a strong denial, i did not tell those men to kill or harm or scare my wife.
He does not make a strong reliable denial and i can't do it for him
http://truthinjustice.org/james-barton.htm
It happened 20 years ago and he was convicted.
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2008/06/oh-police-lt-who-had-his-wife-vickie.html?m=1
In the 911 call the dad calls the molester a "grown ass man" in the interview he calls him a "kid" when he plays video games.
I also notice in the 911 call he says weapons used were "my fist and my foot" then the operator says, "okay no guns, no knives?" and he says, "ABSOLUTELY not sir".
When I heard the 911 call, I thought weapons was sensitive to him, based on ABSOLUTELY. Now, I see it is.
is it possible the 18yr old witnessed him molesting his own kid? I dunno. seems truthful. but I can't tell for sure.
what i find really suspicious is that he mentions his son just told his brothers and sisters that he is bisexual. this sounds like straight up victim blaming.
I don't think I believe the dad. I think the dad was the molestor and the guy he beat up walked in on him. he also can't talk about how long he thinks the perpetratof was babysitting, that is very suspicious.
you'd think it would be super important to try to figure out how long the molester had been alone with his son just then - minutes? hours? but thefather deflects the question and tells a story about sitting down and eating a taco.
cats are awesome.
I'm not sure but -- I think the guy beat up was a genuine friend and walked in and found the dad molesting the son, and then dad beat him up to keep him quiet. the dad is too evasive about if the supposedely perp was there for a long time or a short time. and too evasive about anything that transpired earlier that day. it's odd. it's not what i'd expect. I can't say I'm sure -- but it's something I now suspect.
Anon 12:06/12:24/12:28,
Jason Frolander admitted to abusing the victim. The victim is 11yo, and capable of relaying what took place.
Apparently this was not a one time event, as the boy claims to have been victimized for years, and the molester confessed to years of abuse the the investigators.
There are plenty of articles discussing Frolander's confession. Here is one:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2700752/Dad-acting-like-dad-Police-defend-father-pounded-accused-child-molester-bloody-puddle-suspect-appears-court-swollen-beatdown.html
Thanks, Jen! I was about to post something similar.
Oh ok thanks for info
Anytime!
I hope the father encourages the boy to get counseling, NOW! I saw his quote about his son being able to talk about it when he 'was ready'. I understand where the dad is coming from, but I hope he will make counseling available as an option immediately.
The victim has to be confused about who he can trust, and likely even about his sexuality.
Frolander was called a close family friend, and the boy may have been groomed by him to believe that they were engaged in a relationship, rather than an abuser/victim situation.
The victim has a lifetime of dealing with, and healing from, such a betrayal. The sooner he starts sorting through his feelings, and getting reassured that he is not to blame, the better.
The father is very matter-of-fact on the 911 call. He does not mix his words. He walked in saw abuse and took care of the situation.
This statement, after the fact "There was nothing uncommon to let the kids go in the bedroom and play video games together and now I have to wonder why the door was shut," Browning said.,"
It intrigues me...before he knew that Frolander was a peadophile, he calls him a kid. HE considers him just another kid, from the neighborhood.
After he walks in and sees Frolander as a Peadophile, he calls him a "Grown Ass MAN"...
It is similar to vehicle vs car or gun vs weapon.
Frolander was a mere kid, before his actions of abuse, now he is a MAN/Peadophile.
Browning is being honest on the 911 tapes and in his interview. I am glad he walked in and caught the molester when he did, too bad it didn't happen about 3 years ago.
huh. I read the article. it says he admitted molseting the kid but also that he's pleading innocent.
there's no quoted statement of admission, just reported that it happened.
maybe he's stil guilty and his lawyer just told him to plead innocent as they often do.
but does sound inconclusive just pased on the article.
also -- I can't help noticing the HAND SIGN the "molester" is making in his selfie. from everything I've been reading thats 666. it's the sixes overlapping, and directly tied to mk ultra. if somebody knows of a different explanation…..,weird coincidence
Sensitivity does not always indicate deception. Sometimes it's just sensitivity. He might be sensitive and defensive about allowing his son to be in the bedroom with the boy with the door shut. I hope he does get his son counseling. He might identify as bisexual because the body does respond, even when being molested, so if he didn't hate it he might think he is attracted to the same sex. He might also feel as if he did something to cause the abuse.
It's not unusal for teens or children to close the bedroom door when playing video games or watching TV. Many like their privacy, too.
The word "door" means exactly that. Now he has regrets, but, he thought of the molester as family. He should be admired for not being paranoid being a victim himself.This could happen to anyone, anyone's child, almost anywhere at anytime.
If the door was required to be open at all times, the victim would end up retaliating for always being watched and having no trust from the parents. A no win situation.
What's the solution?
Anon talking about Amanda Knox, I think you missed the overall tenor of the Q and A. Amanda is discussing a fairytale created by the prosecutor and how believing it must be so hard for Meredith's parents. When BW says they need you, too, she likewise is talking about in the fairytale story.
@anon 11:10 the fact the dad brought door into it, could mean he is sensitive, either for his son or for his self.
I think when someone mentions doors/closed or lights/on-off or water in forms means their is probably sexual abuse.
I agree many teens like privacy, that is when you should really search what is said, how it is said and be aware of things said and the way they are said.
There was obviously sexual abuse here- it was witnessed. The comment about closed doors isn't some hidden clue: the dad is wondering about abuse at times when the door was closed.
I'm not trying to come to a conclusion here, but I do find some unexpected wording:
"There was nothing uncommon to let the kids go in the bedroom and play video games together and now I have to wonder why the door was shut," Browning said.
"Nothing uncommon" Why stated in the negative? Why not "it was common for the kids to..." Is dad feeling guilty that he didn't know sooner?
"Kids" (vs "grown ass man"): it has been reported that Frolander had been a family friend a few years ago, left town and came back just recently. He was a kid, now a few years later at 18 is a man. Justifiable change in wording.
"Wonder" This jumps out at me more than "door." Dad knows there was abuse and earlier attempts at abuse. I expected something stronger than wonder. Again, maybe he's thinking back and regretted not supervising more closely.
Browning says he too was victimized as a child. He says stopping the attack was the easy part, talking to his son about it has been much more difficult.
This helps explain the rage.
"I'm not going to pressure anything on him, like I said i know exactly what he's going through, when he's ready to talk about it, he will," he said.
"pressure anything on him" To me, this is awkward unexpected wording. I'd expect "pressure him" or "put pressure on him". "Anything" seems out of place.
OT.
Erica’s adoptive mother: ‘Erica is alive’
As the investigation into the disappearance of missing teen Erica Parsons approaches the one-year mark, Casey Parsons told WBTV in a recent interview that she believes her adopted daughter is still alive.
“Erica is alive. She is very much alive,” Casey Parsons told the news station in an interview aired Tuesday night. “Do I think Erica is going to be back? I sure do. When? I hope very soon. I pray that every night.”
No one has been charged in connection with Erica’s disappearance.
Erica, who was adopted as a baby, was reported missing July 30, 2013, although she hadn’t been seen by anyone outside her family for nearly two years. The search for her by Rowan County, state and federal authorities cast suspicion on her adoptive parents, Casey and Sandy Parsons. Investigators suspect foul play and say Erica was likely abused.
Carolyn Parsons, who used to be related to Sandy Parsons through marriage, still questions whether police are doing enough to figure out what happened.
“This is probably one of the biggest cases in this field that Rowan County has ever had,” she told the Observer in an interview last week. “I don’t think (investigators) know what they’re doing.”
In a statement, the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office said investigators are working with the FBI and SBI to find Erica. “Work by all of the law enforcement partners continues on this case at many different levels,” the statement said.
Erica was reported missing by her adoptive brother last July following his fight with the Parsonses.
Casey and Sandy Parsons initially said they’d sent Erica to live with a woman named Irene “Nan” Goodman, who they claimed was Erica’s biological grandmother. The couple said Nan had contacted Casey Parsons on Facebook and ultimately invited Erica to stay with her.
Later, they backtracked on that story, saying they were swindled, says their attorney, Carlyle Sherrill.
The developments unfolded on national television. The Parsonses went on the “Dr. Phil” show, claiming their innocence. During a lie detector test, an expert said Sandy Parsons was “deceptive” about Erica’s disappearance.
Cont..
Casey Parsons did not take the polygraph exam because she described herself as being in severe pain, and the show’s polygraph expert said he opted not to give her the test because the body’s response to pain can be confused with deception.
Investigators have said they’ve found no evidence Goodman ever existed. They have searched the Parsonses’ home outside Salisbury and the property of Sandy Parsons’ father in China Grove, where the Parsonses kept a storage shed.
“We’d do lineups and look over people. It was a lot centered on even – like sex trafficking. Erica could be a victim of that,” Casey Parsons says detectives told them.
Casey Parsons told WBTV that she and her husband felt investigators’ focus was squarely on them.
“Some of the days when they would visit and talk and it would be centered around to us completely – that we’re the ones that was completely responsible for Erica’s disappearance. That we lied. We did this,” she said.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/07/23/5061913_ericas-adopted-mother-erica-is.html#.U9DWBONdWWc#storylink=cpy
My own background includes sexual abuse. I have had an evolving dream series all my life (57 years) that includes houses with no doors, broken doors, melted locks, etc., etc., etc. I only now made the concrete connection between the doors, locks and keys of my dreams and the abuse. I have long held that the dreams related to issues of boundaries and safety (or lack of) but this article made the connection crystal clear.
In regards to the "kid" vs. "grown ass man" comments, I was thinking that when the guy was playing video games with his the son, he was seen as a kid. When, the Dad walked in on the guy molesting his son, he is now referred to as a "grown ass man", because he is no longer an innocent child playing video games.
Also, maybe the Dad's abuser was a "grown ass man" as well?
That, and the fact that he's telling police he just beat up the guy. Would police look at it differently if he said "I just beat up this kid"?
a desert setting, a door on the left that would open to the sky, melted locks placed about. i have seen that art work painting too. perhaps i was old enough it didnt cause me to get all mentally stupid about it.
Igjproduct, I am so sorry that you are a victim of abuse. I hope this new knowledge leads to empowerment over your dreams. I'm truly sorry.
The dad's rage is understandable.
His son is a rape victim who was being abused by a trusted friend.
What kind of monster rapes an 11 year old boy?
The family of this little victim will be reeling from pain and shock for a long time. They will not trust anyone anymore.
The boy will face shame and confusion for years.
The father -- who seems oddly polite and deferential to the 9-1-1 dispatcher -- is emphatic that no weapons were involved.
DISPATCH: "No guns or knives?"
BROWNING: "Absolutely not, sir."
Later in the call, Browning explains the angry beating and cites GOD as the heroic intervening source of restraint: ". . . except I didn't kill him. You're damned lucky, boy, that I love my God."
However, his story changes in the video statements. Browning says he beat Frolander, then went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
Also, there is no mention of GOD. "My son saved his attacker's life," explains Browning "so who's really the hero in this situation?"
I think you guys are really insane - wishing the guy would have murdered the kid. Lethal force is necessary in order to prevent someone else or yourself from suffering lethal force or severe bodily injury. The cop is an idiot for making that statement. It was highly unprofessional - especially after the father said the kid was unconscious and that he dragged him out of the room for them (read the news articles).
Anyway, yes, if the facts are true, the 18 year old committed a crime - which started when he was 15. The answer to that is not stabbing someone to death. He would have been arrested and charged with the same offense.
Finally, I find Nic's comments the most uninformed. He knew the dad would be punished more than the abuser -- well, yes, murder is a more serious crime than sexual battery! Good grief. Just because someone loses his humanity (by molesting a child) does not excuse you for losing your own. This celebratory nature of this thread is disgusting. The man was having a flashback and engaged in overkill because he hasn't healed himself from the abuse. Now, he is keeping his own son silent about it. I guess in 10 more years, he'll be a violent knife-wielding person as well.
Trigger: what monster rapes a kid? What monster tries to stab a kid to death in front of his own child, forcing his own child to plead for the other kid's life? Thin line here.
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