Man 'beat his girlfriend's five-year-old son around the face after he opened one of his Christmas gi

[Judi Lynn]

Source: New Zealand Herald

21 Dec, 2017 3:20 pm

An Oklahoma man beat his girlfriend's five-year-old son with a belt to "teach him a lesson" because he opened one of his Christmas gifts early, it has been alleged.

Wesley McCollum, 22, was arrested on Saturday night in Okmulgee after his girlfriend Bridgette Payne called police.

She claims she returned home from running errands to find her five-year-old son Ayrian lying in his bed covered in cuts and bruises, the Daily Mail reports.

Payne said McCollum told her he had sent the child to bed as punishment for opening the wrapped present.

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[sakabatou]

1. WTF?!

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. That poor little one

[SunSeeker]

3. This made headlines in New Zealand? The world must think we're horrible.

That asshole in Oklahoma certainly is.

[SoCalMusicLover]

6. Oh, The World Is Well Aware How Horrible We Are

At least those who read the news online.

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Enjoy X-Mas Is Jail Trump Voter

ASSHOLE!!!

[BigBearJohn]

5. Oh, his fellow jailmates are gonna just LOVE this guy. Convicts just LOVE child abusers.

[Akoto]

7. Jebus. And the guy's only 22 years old.

I'm 32, so not extremely far distanced. When I was 22, I was playing video games and taking life as easy as my disability allows. I loved babies of all sorts (human and animal), and loved watching my mom's friend's niece for her. First baby I ever held.

There is no circumstance under which I can imagine hitting a child, much less beating them all over with a belt. Not even if they had done something to royally tick me off would I raise a hand. Forget about taking a weapon to them - and that is what it was, battering that poor little kid with a weapon.

I don't know if the guy is mentally unsound, or if he's perpetuating the kind of treatment he himself received as a child. Either way, doesn't make it right.

[MFM008]

13. Beatings and spanking

Raise mental cases, monsters, sociopaths and serial killers.
I never hit my kid.

[Egnever]

8. Sheesh

Thats like putting bacon on the ground and beating your dog for eating it.

What a dick.

[JI7]

9. pic

he looks older than 22

[joshdawg]

10. That pic tells me he has a punchable face.

[Yavin4]

11. Her son's name is "Ayrian"?

Hmmmmm.

[Phoenix61]

12. I was a child abuse investigator

many years ago. Non-biological "father" in the home was considered a risk factor for child abuse.

[Raine]

14. Poor little guy

Christmas is for children and it's probably ruined forever for him because it will always be connected with what that bastard did to him!

[Scarsdale]

15. I doubt this was

the only time this creep abused the kids. Let the boy's father have him for 10 minutes. The other kids must have been terrorized, too. When will women realize that random guys will NOT "love" your kids when you let them move in? This guy even LOOKS scary. I wonder what her NEXT live-in will do to the kids?

[heaven05]

16. I commiserate

with this 5 year old....god, I'd like to beat this trump voter about his face...POS.