Dad, gal pal indicted in beating of 9-year-old son (Waco, Texas)

Once again, let's examine how the media covers--or fails to cover--a case like this.

1) Though this case involves daddy RONALD WAYNE JACKSON JR. and his girlfriend (not the mother of the child), we fail to draw attention to the fact that this injured child would not have been injured had the violent father not had custodial rights and/or visitation (access).

2) Because we fail to draw this obvious connection, we fail to ask how the Daddy obtained access and who gave it to him. A judge? A mother under threat?

3) And because we fail to ask these questions, the child's mother, the natural protector, is erased from the scene. Again.

4) And we blame the girlfriend for not being able to stop this big brute from beating his own child. Right.

http://www.kxxv.com/story/15118660/father-and-girlfriend-indicted-for-child-abuse

WACO
Father and girlfriend indicted for child abuse

Posted: Jul 20, 2011 6:07 PM CDT
by: Aimee Burnett

WACO - A McLennan County Grand jury is sending a father and his girlfriend to trial for child abuse.

27-year old Ronald Wayne Jackson Jr. is charged with injury to a child with a deadly weapon. Jackson is accused of beating his 9-year old son with a 2 x 4, a golf club and a belt back in May.

25-year old Clorice Fahie is charged with injury to a child by omission for not stopping the beatings.