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    Default Is it Legal for Parents to Beat You

    My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Mississippi tonight my father punched me in the face over and over and cutt my legs with a belt grabbed me by my throat and threw me grabbed my friend and punched him and tried to hurt him badly and break his arm and still kept grabbing me and jerking me around by my neck and my hair so my other friend called the police{all this took place on my friend who my father hits property} when the police arrived maybe 5 minutes later both my friends and a neighbor {an older man in his late sixties maybe} all told them about my father hitting me and the police did nothing but send me home with them and they even heard my father threaten to beat me some more when i got home. that's when he cut me with the belt{through the blue jeans i was wearing!} PLEASE TELL ME IS THAT LEGAL??!!

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    Default Re: Tell Me if Its Legal for Perents to Beat You

    No, it isn;t. Corporal punishment is generally legal but this goes way beyond this. This is assault and battery. The police were derelict if they did not do something about this.

    It could be they did not find you and the neighbor to be credible but this should still have warranted an investigation.

    Call Child Protective Services and report this.

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    I did not have permission to be at my friends house so the police just sent me home..can my friend press charges on them??? Can i press charges on them can they press charges on my friend?? They being my parents my mom slapped me also..thank you so much for your help

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    I DID NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO BE THERE SO THE POLICE SENT ME HOME..CAN MY FRIEND PRESS CHARGES ON THEM?? CAN I PRESS CHARGES ON THEM??CAN THEY PRESS CHARGES ON MY FRIEND?? THEY BEING MY PARENTS MY MOTHER SLAPPED ME TOO..i AM 16 BY THE WAY AND MY FRIEND IS 19

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    Default Re: Tell Me if Its Legal for Perents to Beat You

    I HAD ANOTHER FRIEND THERE WHO TOLD THE POLICE ALSO.. BUT SINCE I WENT THERE WILLINGLY TO MY FRIENDS HOUSE COULD MY PARENTS STILL PRESS CHARGES ON HIM..cOULD HIS MOM PRESS CHARGES ON MY PARENTS SINCE LEGALLY IT IS HER PROPERTY??

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    Default Re: Tell Me if Its Legal for Perents to Beat You

    also can my father assaulting me this way help me be emacacipated in any way??

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    Default Re: Tell Me if Its Legal for Perents to Beat You

    also can my father assaulting me this way help me be emacacipated in any way??
    No.

    You've already been told what to do. Call Child Protective Services.

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    Default Re: Tell Me if Its Legal for Perents to Beat You

    No. The recourse for having your parents beat you is not emancipation. It may be putting you in foster care, or in a group home, or with other relatives. It may be leaving you where you are and having mandatory counseling. It may be having the father removed from the home.

    IT IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE EMANCIPATING A MINOR CHILD.

    Do get this through your little one-track mind, will you?

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    Default Re: Tell Me if Its Legal for Perents to Beat You

    me01 sent me a PM and explained the incident. it appears dad followed me01 to her BF house where the father entered the house and drug the BF out and beat him. me01 attempted to intervene and was beaten as well.

    Police refused to arrest dad but did threaten BF with arrest.

    even with witnessess, police refused to act on behalf of me01 or BF.

    So, with that;

    me01; call child protective services

    BF; needs to contact the prosecuting attorney in your area and file a complaint against dad.

    as the others said, this is not a basis for emancipation BUT it should get you removed to some other living arrangements.

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