FOREST HILL, Texas — A Texas woman is facing felony charges for badly beating her 15-year-old son after she caught him receiving oral sex from a male cousin last December.
Police in Forest Hill have charged Erica Moore with assault with bodily injury to a family member and felony child abuse after she admitted to beating her son with with an electrical cord.
Moore said it is a form of discipline she was taught, and that she “doesn’t believe in homosexuality.”
“My cousin at the time, he was 18. My son, he was 15, and I had walked in the room on [my cousin] giving oral sex to my son and I started whooping my son, and I’m the one who got in trouble as a result of me whooping him,” Moore told KTVT-TV.
“The police department told me that it was consensual, but they was committing a homosexual act in my house and we are totally against that. So I whooped my son, and about three or four months later they came and arrested me for abuse,” she said.
A spokesperson for the Forest Hill Police department said that the incident was brought to their attention after the boy’s grandmother had taken him to a local hospital.
The staff there alerted Texas Child Protective Services who launched an investigation.
Police officials said that Moore’s actions went beyond legally acceptable standards of discipline as she caused bleeding and leaving marks on the boy’s thighs, forearms, hands, torso and back.While not commenting on the specifics of the case, Marissa Gonzales, a spokesperson for Child Protective Services said, “If you are leaving the child with severe injuries or bruises, then obviously we might be talking about abuse.”
A spokesperson for the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment saying that there is still an active investigation into the matter, but did acknowledge that Moore faces prison time if convicted.
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Well Good!
she deserves to be giving the electric chair for this
Stay classy, Texas.
right ok well thats wrong come to west hollywood and try this we will bitch slap a hoe
Homophobic right wing Bitch!
Did she say she did it because She caught him with a boy. Or because He was Getting Oral from a COUSIN?
lock her up!
Put her ass in prison for a few years and let her think about it. YOU CAN NOT EVER PUT YOUR HANDS ON “ANYONE” EVEN YOUR OWN CHILD, FOR ANY REASON, YOU HATEFUL DUMB ASS BE-ATCH. LIVE N LEARN.
She’s more upset at the fact that it was a homosexual act than the fact that his son was receiving head from his 18 year old cousin? Wtf.
I’ve messed around with cousins before. It’s what boys do when there’s nobody else.
I’m kinda with Flora on this one…I mean yea she was extreme but come on now your COUSIN???
Felt bad till the cousin thing came up eeeekkkk >.<
That is so awful! Poor kid
‘They was engaging in a homophobic act, so I gave him a whooping’. I can almost hear the banjos.
she need to have her ass in prison. violence is never the answer.
Good hope they lock her up and throw away the keys
She deserves to go to prison for child abuse – the fact that she justified it because he was engaging in a gay sex act makes it a hate crime.
Tyranical theocratic Bigoted Bitch!
Good. Hopefully the bitch rots in jail
lol yup
Mother is wrong for beating her son but gay incest is just nasty! I could see why Republicans equate homosexual sex to incest.
wow. If she was my mom I would be going to prison.
THIS WAY OF THINKING HAS GOT TO STOP! Let people be who they want to be.
i hope someone beats the fuck out of her in prison
Hope she rots. Shouldn’t have barged in on the poor boy, where is the privacy? Dumb cunt doesn’t deserve a son when so many good people can’t have one.
She was mad her son was gay but not because he’s engaging in incest? What kind thinking does she have. Either way, it’s no grounds to get violent but I hope she goes to jail. What a nut case.
WTF….no she should not beat him for being gay….but she should have beat the fuck out of him for getting a blow job from his cousin.
I thought you could marry your first cousin in Texas??
sounds like texas
No tolerance for Violence. Regardless if its incest, homosexuality or any other thing.
She should stay in prison, too. The 15 year old should be taken permanently away from that witch.
Yep, sounds like something that only happens in good ole cowpoke Texas!! State where the Bushs and the Perrys live……..REDNECK COUNTRY…LMAO!!
I agree with Ricardo Fondeur! I don’t agree with incest either, but causing serious physical harm to someone is NEVER acceptable.
Only in Texas I swear and the south would this happen
This shit happened in Los Angeles too people. Texas has been wonderful to me, my wife and our daughter. Please don’t make yourselves sound as ignorant as the bitch in this story.
OMG! A cousin though? WOW!
beating never solves anything
Can she seriously not figure out why she got arrested?
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Incest it may be, it’s still a personal choice, not a crime and certainly not abuse-worthy. He could have been a third-cousin twice removed, we can’t know and can’t judge that. But we can judge the terrible actions of his “mother” [egg-doner].
Parents who hurt their kids like this do not deserve to be blessed with children.
This woman should learn how to speak correctly before she passes judgement
Ashamed of my fellow Texan! We are not all that way!!
wow what a nice madre
Of course it happened in Texas. Where else but the most ignorant ass backwards state in the nation
good….hope she rots in there
Since the article doesn’t mention incest, I’m guessing they’re not blood relatives I hope and also it’s not considered incest if it’s your second cousin.
She will get raped in jail and that is fine with me
Hope she gets “badly beaten” in prison!!!!
This is quite the turn around from the Anti-Sodomy laws once in place in Texas!