Texas Man concludes his stay in doghouse....

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Texas Man Concluding Stay In Doghouse
Robin Says He Glad It's Almost Over

POSTED: 11:32 a.m. EDT April 11, 2003
UPDATED: 11:32 a.m. EDT April 11, 2003

VIDOR, Texas -- As he approached his next-to-last night in a doghouse for whipping his stepson with a car antenna and locking him out of the house during a thunderstorm, Curtis Robin Sr., 38, said Thursday he still doesn't think his punishment fit the crime.

Robin spent each night for the past month -- from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. -- in a state-owned 2-foot by 3-foot plastic doghouse that Orange County prosecutors set up on March 13 in a carport in front of his house.

Vidor police officers routinely patrolled Robin's house to ensure he was complying with the court order.


"I'm just glad it's almost over," Robin said in a story in Friday's Beaumont Enterprise for its Friday editions.

Robin said he was subjected to heckling from passersby and received a few harassing phone calls and letters.

"The worst case was when some people drove by and threw some bottles at me," he said.

The occasional disturbances and curious passersby kept Robin awake most nights, he said.

"I did get in a few cat naps. Luckily, I don't require a lot of sleep," he said.

As for the punishment, Robin said, "If you want a punishment that fits the crime, then the D.A. needs to come over here and spank me because that's all I did to Zachary. I never made him sleep in a doghouse."

Authorities began investigating Robin in 2001 after neighbors saw Robin's stepson, Zachary Wiegers, sleeping outside during a heavy rainstorm and called police. Prosecutors said Robin repeatedly locked the child out of the house during the summer of 2001, and on at least one occasion the boy was forced to take shelter in a doghouse in the backyard during a storm.

Robin admitted using a car aerial on his stepson and pleaded guilty in March to a felony charge of injury to a child. State District Judge Buddie Hahn went along with the punishment suggested by prosecutors and ordered Robin to spend 30 consecutive nights in a doghouse.

"I found out the hard way that if you hit a child and it leaves a red mark then it's a felony," Robin said.

Zachary, now 13, lives with his father, Rex Wiegers, and stepmother in Hobe Sound, Fla. At the time of the abuse, the boy lived with his mother, Lisa, and Robin in Robin's home in Vidor, 80 miles east of Houston.

[Infrared]

That was his punishment? For real?

That's pretty funny!!!

[Sir Meh]

owned!

[xryptic]

I love how the guy is completely unapologetic. Yeah he didn't force his stepson to sleep in the doghouse, he could've slept out in the rain.
He's lucky the kid didn't just kill his ass, considering the kind of society we live in today.