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Cantonment Man Charged With Felony Child Abuse
January 6, 2022
A Cantonment man is facing a felony child cruelty charge.
Adam Thomas Murphy, 41, was charged with felony child abuse without great bodily harm.
Murphy allegedly slapped and headbutted a juvenile, causing a cut on the child’s lip and redness underneath his eye, according to an arrest report. Much of the report is redacted as required by Florida law, so the age of the child and his relationship to Murphy were not released.
Murphy remained in the Escambia County Jail Thursday morning with bond set at $1,000, according to jail records.
The victim refused medical treatment, according to the report.
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12 Responses to “Cantonment Man Charged With Felony Child Abuse”
I went to high school with him. He was even creepy then. But, under public record he is also a sex offender.
Dave… I like you.
Alison: To your comment “There’s definitely a segment of society who beat their children(low education, IQ and job prospects) and a segment that does not.”, it appears your parents did not beat you enough as a child…. such a shame.
All this talking about rich and poor. You must not know this guy. He owns two KFC’s here in town.
I enjoy reading “my parents beat the crap out of me and I turned out fine” argument. You read that comment all the time all too often.
@ sherry, robin and suzie – well said, thank you
Ummm, Allison, did you follow the story a prominent Destin business owner who physically, verbally and mentally abused his teen daughter along with threatening her dog where the case started early in 2020? He has plenty of money and a horrible temper. The daughter set up a video camera to prove what was happening. I don’t think abuse is limited to a particular segment. Just my opinion
@Sherry – Thank you!
Allison, I assume you are young and ignorant to claim that only low education, low IQ people abuse children. To claim that wealthy, successful people, CEOs of companies don’t do those things is ludicrous. Do you personally know what goes on in all those families?
If he headbutted an adult walking down the street his bond would be higher. Why is beating a child Acceptable? Commenters always ask, well what did the child do? Look at wealthy, successful people, CEOs of major companies, tech experts, are they going around beating their kids? No. There’s definitely a segment of society who beat their children(low education, IQ and job prospects) and a segment that does not.
Susie, so slapping is OK?
The headbutting part went too far but if this is his kid, maybe the kid screwed up bad. Still, you have to get over that anger before the discipline so you can think straight.