Dad in "custody battle" for 10-month-old baby kicks in door at mom's house, fires shotgun (Louisburg, North Carolina)

Oh sure. Dad MARIO LAMONT SIMMS is one dandy candidate for custody of a 10-month-old baby. Such a stable, loving, personality...NOT.

When are we going to realize that a substantial number of fathers going for custody fit this portrait: A violent, obsessive criminal who is only interesting in controlling and punishing "his woman." Notice that the police had responded to 10 previous domestic violence calls at this address in just the past year--I'm assuming that Daddy was responsible for these "incidents."

The media says Simms was "upset" by the "custody dispute" with his ex-girlfriend, the mother of the 10-month-old child. (Of course, given that this was an ex-girlfriend and not an ex-wife, we also see that he never made any formal commitment to her or the children, and yet he nevertheless demanded "his" father's rights.) So that's why he "allegedly" kicked in the front door and fired his shotgun into the air outside. 'Cause all of this is a great display of his fathering skills, don't you know.

I think Daddy knew very well what he was doing, and you can just about bet he doesn't pull this "crazy" act at work or in other public spaces. No, he reserves the big intimidating displays of Daddy Drama for the homefront--with utter indifference for how the kids might have been traumatized, or whether they might have been "accidentally" killed or injured in all this.

My questions: After ten previous police calls, why was this guy even allowed to be walking around? And why was a guy with this history of violence allowed to terrorize the mother with a custody battle? That's called domestic violence by proxy, friends--i.e. exploiting the family court system to continue and extend your campaign of terror and abuse.

We're lucky that nobody was killed in this ongoing Daddy Drama--this time.

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/8986213/

Posted: 11:55 a.m. today

Man charged with firing at home of child, ex-girlfriend

Louisburg, N.C. — A Franklin County man upset by a custody dispute fired a shotgun early Friday into a home where his child and ex-girlfriend were, according to Sheriff Pat Green.

Green said that Mario Lamont Simms, 25, was carrying a shotgun when kicked in the door of his ex-girlfriend's home on Malcolm Neil Path, north of Louisburg, around 4:30 a.m. She hid in a closet and called 911.

Simms fired shots into the air outside the house and fled into the woods when deputies arrived, Green said. He was arrested a short time later.

Three children, ages 9 and 7 years and 10 months, were in the house at the time. No one was injured.

Green said that Simms is the father of the 10-month-old and wanted custody of the baby.

He and his ex-girlfriend are estranged, but Simms had lived at the home previously, the sheriff said. Deputies have responded to 10 domestic incidents at the home in the past year.

Simms was charged with three counts of felony child abuse and one count each of felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, misdemeanor assault and communicating threats.

He was placed in the Franklin County jail under a $19,000 bond.