Dad faces domestic battery charges for abuse of 6-year-old son (Hurricane, West Virginia)

Dad TROY PALMER SEXTON doesn't see that there's anything wrong with carrying your 6-year-old son by the ankle across a field and banging the child's head on the ground. Throwing your child onto the ground is okay too. Why is everybody making such a big deal about this, dad said. "Mind you own f--ing business," he yelled at those who objected to his parental techniques. Sorry, Mr. Sexton of Hurricane, West Virginia...or should I call you Troy? Or Bubba? The abuse of children is everybody's business, or should be.

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Wednesday August 12, 2009
Witness says Putnam dad carried small son across field by one ankle
by From staff reports

A Putnam County man faces domestic battery charges after carrying his 6-year-old son across a field by one ankle and allowing the child's helmeted head to hit the ground "more than once," according to a criminal complaint filed in Putnam Magistrate Court.

Troy Palmer Sexton of Summit Ridge Road in Hurricane was with his four children at the ballfield behind Winfield Elementary on Aug. 6 when a witness saw him being rough with his children.

The witness told a Winfield police officer that she saw Sexton throw one of his sons to the ground just before approaching his other son, whose hip he "pinched and twisted." Sexton then grabbed that son by the ankle and picked him up. The twin boys are 6.

The father walked across the field with his son hanging by the ankle, causing the son to repeatedly bang his helmeted head off the ground, the complaint says. When Sexton reached the fence bordering the ballfield, he threw his son "across it hard onto the ground."

The criminal complaint said an onlooker yelled, "You can't do that to a child!" to which Sexton responded, "Mind your own f--ing business!"

When police arrived, Sexton was standing with all four of his children near a picnic shelter and bruises were visible on one son's leg.

Sexton did admit to treating his two sons in such a manner but said he did not see why everyone was making such a big deal about it.

Sexton was charged with two counts of domestic battery on Thursday.