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When Jason R. Beatrice, 31 of Raynham took his 4 year old son to Market Basket he didn’t expect to have to protect him from molestation by an employee of the supermarket while using the restroom.  But that is exactly what happened.  Valerio Rodriguez, 71, of Providence reached under the bathroon stall partition and was touching the child’s leg while the child was standing on a bucket.  I am assuming he was using the bucket as a step stool.  Mr Beatrice threw open the stall door and punched Rodriguez in the mouth to stop him from molesting his son.

Guess who went to jail?  Remember it’s Massachusetts!

That’s right Beatrice went to jail.

I received a comment from Beatrice’s sister correcting me on his going to jail.  Beatrice was not arrested but was charged with assault and released.

Rodriguez, who is also an illegal alien, was given a court date to answer to the molestation charges but wasn’t even arrested.  the man confessed to police through a translator and they still didn’t arrest him.

In fact he wasn’t even fired by Market Basket.

A spokesman for Tewksbury-based Demoulas’ Supermarkets, owner of the Market Basket chain, said Rodriguez “has been suspended pending investigation by law enforcement authorities.”

This is what Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley had to say about it.

“We can’t have people taking the law into their own hands. The father should have waited for the police.”

That’s right, if someone is in the act of molesting your child don’t stop them. Call the police and wait!!

Here is Martha’s contact info. Let her know what you think.

E-mail:
office@marthacoakley.com

Phone:
617-628-4200

Mailing Address:
Martha Coakley Committee
PMB #312
One Kendall Square, Building 600
Cambridge, MA 02139

Office Address:
Martha Coakley Committee
56 Roland Street
Suite 207-C
Charlestown, MA 02129

Also since Market Basket won’t fire the illegal alien molester even after he confessed I think a boycott of Market Basket stores is in order.  I am trying to find contact information for their main office but it isn’t wasy.  Their main website(www.mbfoods.com) is currently not working.  But I didn’t find a contact form here.

UPDATE – July 17, 2008
Raynham Police Chief Lou Pacheco doesn’t understand what anyone is upset about.

“It is unfortunate that there appears to be some type of public assumption that the police stopped a father from protecting his son and let a child molester go, that is absolutely not true,” Pacheco wrote in a prepared statement.

Really?

The story stirred up a media frenzy, much of it critical of police for arresting the father.
Pacheco said people have left anonymous phone messages at the station assuming, wrongly, that police arrested the father and let the suspect go or that there was incontrovertible evidence of a sexual assault and the father used force to stop it.
But, Pacheco said, his officers had probable cause to believe that both parties had possibly committed arrestable felonies. Neither party had any record or warrants
And while the father claims the incident was an outright sexual assault, there was an arguable dispute on the facts as the elderly man who could only speak through an interpreter, said he was “just joking around,” he said.
He said his officers used their discretion not to arrest the man right away because the reason for an arrest is to protect the public by stopping the crime or similar ones from continuing and to ensure the parties will appear in court.
“None of those are the facts as I know them or as the officers knew them at the time. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land and people on their own can’t become judge jury and executioner. That is not the way the system works,” he said.

Another Massachusetts Official that believes that you have no right to defend yourself or anyone else.  Just let the crime continue to occur and wait for the police to arrive and stop it.  Oh and it’s not sexual assault if you’re “just joking around”.

You can let Police Pacheco know what you think using the contact info on the Raynham Police Depratment webpage.

UPDATE – August 31, 2008

According to the Patriot Ledger the assault charge against Jason Beatrice, the father charged with assault for defending his 4 year old son from a child molester, has been dropped.  He still faces a battery charge but that will likely be dropped as the “victim” is unavaliable to testify.  The child molester Valerio Rodriguez, 71, ran away back to Guatemala when he was released instead of arrested.

Oh and here’s another nugget about Ms. Coakley.  She was interviewed on 96.9 WTKK radio in Boston and when asked about charging the father for defending his child she responded:

We… We try and discourage people from self help.

Michelle Malkin has a post on it too.

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