JANUARY 27--Meet Douglas Dycus. The 40-year-old Florida man was charged yesterday with felony child abuse and domestic battery for allegedly using a stun gun to discipline his 14-year-old son. Dycus, an engineer with a Palm Beach firm, admitted to cops that he used the electrical device on the boy when the child was wrestling with a brother and holding up the family's departure from their home last month. Instead of pulling the boys apart, Dycus--who said the children were "not listening"--went to his dresser drawer and pulled out the stun gun, which he used to zap his son on the arm. The child let out a scream and then "got into the vehicle," according to a Martin County Sheriff's Office report. The victim told a child welfare investigator that Dycus shocked him twice, pointing to marks the device left on his arm and abdomen. The stun gun was recovered from Dycus's Palm City home after sheriff's investigators filed the below search warrant affidavit
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Ummm, not really sure what to say about that one! How many volts of electricity go through those things? Just wondering, cause I know of people who use much worse ways to "disipline" their children!
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RE: I thought I told you not to .........ZAP!!!!!!!!
What do you expect? Various groups have been screaming about children's rights for years now. We can't have anyone spanking their children or using a belt, now can we?
Personally, I think a stun gun has one use, and it has nothing to do with discipline. But do you think he'd get off more easily if he'd whipped the boy?
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Go read the police report.
This is the fourth time this father has been looked at for child abuse. I spank my kids but I don't split their lips or leave welts on them from hitting them with a belt.Now he has decided stun gun will get his point across,geez I wonder what woud be next?
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Ummm, not really sure what to say about that one! How many volts of electricity go through those things?
It depends, some are as low as 1000 Volts, some as high as 50,000. The issue isn't the voltage it's the power. They're typically very very very low power so there is never any damage to the recipient. I purposely zapped myself in the past with one of those, they will wake you up and you get a painful senstation for a second but thats about it.
Try putting your dog's "bark collar" on your arm -- they're the exact same thing, they're just a little "flyback" supply, some are boost converters, run off of a 9V battery.
I thought I told you not to .........ZAP!!!!!!!!
