Monday, January 30, 2012
Girls Ask Deputy To Take Dad To Jail
A Lawrence County Sheriff’s deputy reports when he arrived to intervene in a domestic altercation during the weekend, two young girls ran out of the home, asking that he take their father to jail.
Department reports show that a 911 call was placed by the couple’s eldest daughter around 6:30 p.m. Saturday. When the responding deputy exited his patrol car, he reports the girls, ages 9 and 6, ran out yelling, “My daddy is in the house yelling at my mommy, please take him to jail.”
Reports show the male resident, Quincie Adam Hunt, age 40, exited the home, yelling for his wife and children to get back inside. The deputy indicates Hunt had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage about him, and appeared to be intoxicated.
The wife told deputies she and Hunt had become involved in an argument during which he became enraged. She said that he broke antique lamps inside the home, then punched a hole in a door. Deputies also noted damage to sheetrock.
The couple’s six-year-old daughter, who has Downs Syndrome, told the deputy she had been frightened and showed him how she had covered her head with a blanket “when her dad started yelling at her.”
Hunt was placed under arrest and transported to the Lawrence County Detention Center. He was booked under three counts of domestic assault, domestic vandalism, and public intoxication.
Hunt is slated for an initial appearance in Lawrence County General Sessions Court on February 14, 2012.
