‘My son saved his attacker’s life’: Father beat man he caught raping son, 11, revealed it was his boy’s pleas that saved the pedophile from death

22 Jul, 2014 by Tiffiny Ruegner

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The father who beat a man he allegedly caught performing sex acts on his 11-year-old son has admitted that it was only his son’s pleas which stopped him from killing the admitted pervert.

Jason Browning said he was going to stab Raymond Frolander, 18, to death after he beat him unconscious but that his son stood up and stopped him from killing the man. Frolander later admitted to Florida police that he has been molesting the boy for three years.

‘My son is the one who stepped in front of me and stopped me. My son saved his attackers life, so who’s really the hero in this situation?’ the father asked WKMG outside the Daytona beach courthouse shortly after Frolander’s first court appearance.

Browning admitted he ‘just snapped’ when he walked in on Frolander naked with his son. Shortly after beating the teen into a coma, he went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, he said.

‘I was going to kill him,’ said Browning. Frolander was considered family by the Brownings and often spent time with the 11-year-old boy, the father said. The father’s outrage comes from being molested himself as a child at a foster home in California. He said beating Frolander was the easy part and much harder days lie ahead.

‘I’m not going to pressure anything on him,’ Mr Browning said. ‘I know exactly what he’s going through, when he’s ready to talk about it, he will.’

When the 911 responder asked the father if any weapons were involved, he said: ‘My foot and my fist’.
The 35-year-old man, who has not been identified, told a 911 dispatcher in the early hours of Friday: ‘I just walked in on a grown man molesting [name redacted]. And I got him in a bloody puddle for you right now, officer.’
Police arrived at the Daytona Beach home in Florida to find Frolander unconscious.

‘He is nice and knocked out on the floor for you, I dragged him into the living room,’ the father said. ‘Send an ambulance. He is going to need one.’

The dispatcher asked: ‘Is he still unconscious?’ to which the father responds: ‘Yes… I hit hard, sir.’

He said that Frolander was a ‘damn lucky boy that I love my God’.

The father added: ‘He stood up and his pants were around his ankles and nothing else needed to be said. I did whatever I got a right to do except I didn’t kill him.’

The boy told investigators he had been playing video games with friends but when they left, Frolander took him to a back room and pulled down his pants. He also said Frolander had been abusing him for three years. The police chief said the young boy was intimidated and told by Frolander that terrible things would happen if he revealed the abuse. Chief Chitwood said: ‘He’s 11 years old, he should be running around outside and playing video games, not dealing with something like this.’

The teen was charged with sexual battery on a child under 12 and is being held without bail. It was not known whether he’s hired a lawyer.