I’ve Got Your Republican Family Values Right Here
The night Cincinnati City Councilman Sam Malone is accused of beating his son with a belt, he told the 14-year-old boy: "I'm not finished with you," according to Hamilton County court documents.
Malone, who has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence, was upset that his son was late to a checkpoint while on a school field trip at Paramount's Kings Island on May 13, according to the boy's statement to police.
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The hospital records detail bruising to his chest, arms, back and buttocks.
The boy told police he fell at one point and Malone continued to hit him.
"I pay for your school, and you bring home poor grades," Malone told his son during the beating, according to the boy's statement. "You're not paying attention."
When his father stopped hitting him, the boy told police Malone told him he wasn't finished with him, adding: "I'm going to whip the black off you."
Shortly after, Malone left his Walnut Hills home, and a boy who also lives with Malone and his son called 911.
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The domestic-violence charge was not the first for the councilman.
In 1991, he was charged with choking and pushing his mother. That charge was dismissed after he completed a counseling program.
Malone by the way, is black. You gotta wonder about a black man who tells is son he’ll “whip the black off you”. So now the trial begins…
After opening statements, Malone's 14-year-old son testified.
As the former councilman looked on, the teenager recounted what happened in their Walnut Hills home.
In the year before Malone's arrest, the teen said he and his father had had a rocky relationship because he was failing eighth grade. Then the boy missed the checkpoint, prompting his teacher to call Malone.
Malone's son testified that Malone was angry and told him to go upstairs and take his clothes off.
"He started whipping me with a belt, he had it wrapped double on his hand," the teenager said. "He kept on hitting me, and I fell over, and he kept on hitting me."
Asked by Murray to demonstrate how he tried to defend against the blows, the teen crossed his arms against his chest and tucked his head down.
"I was in pain, crying," the teenager said. "He hit me all over, on my back, arms, side, stomach, chest and my legs."
Malone, 35, was arrested after another boy living in his house in Walnut Hills called 911 and said the 14-year-old didn't feel safe there. Malone's son then got on the phone, crying and repeatedly asking the police dispatcher if he'd have to return to the house.
I don’t know what is the more obscene here…a grown man beating the crap out of a fourteen year old boy for missing a goddamn field trip checkpoint or the fact that beating a defenseless half naked child so badly they have to be taken to the hospital is only a misdemeanor in Ohio. That what it means to have red state family values is it?
As you might expect, Malone has a track record of political gay bashing, vehemently opposing the repeal of Cincinnati’s ban on gay rights laws. I wonder how many times he’s babbled that same sex marriage is harmful to children?
Life just isn’t sweet for these people unless they can beat the crap out somebody smaller and weaker then they are.
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