A grand jury in Lavaca County, Texas decided not to force charges against a father who killed a man he found allegedly sexually abusing his daughter, officials reported at a press conference on Tuesday in Hallettsville, Texas. Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn told reporters, “The substantial amount of evidence showed that the witness statements and the father’s statement and what the father had observed was in fact what had happened that day.” CNN did not identify the father by name in an effort to protect the identity of his daughter.
McMinn said the father called 911 as he and his family tried to “save the life” of alleged attacker Jesus Mora Flores, 47, “despite what they had just witnessed.” The father and his family had gathered for a horse shoeing last Saturday at their ranch, when the 5-year-old daughter had gone off towards the family barn to feed the chickens. The father then heard screaming, ran, and found Flores, a legal worker from Mexico, sexually abusing his daughter. The father stopped the alleged abuser, and then beat him repeatedly in the head, killing him, according to authorities. McMinn told CNN that she had “never seen a case this clear” in her career.
