But when this Clovis dad caught a man sending his teenage daughter sexually explicit messages, he took matters into his own hands. He made a citizen's arrest, and despite his instincts, he did it without violence.
Hugo Rabson is on blast. An angry dad made sure of it. Todd Thomas met Rabson in March after finding his year-old daughter sleeping with contraband. He and his wife did some digging to figure out how she got it and how she used it. Their daughter told them she met Rabson, a year-old, on an app called Whisper she could access without her own phone.
Rabson eventually gave her the phone inside a hollowed out book she kept to hide the phone at home. And he used it to send her messages. Action News dug up an arrest warrant revealing the content of some of those messages. Thomas says his first instinct was to beat the guy with a baseball bat. But Thomas knew violence wouldn't helped anyone, so he hatched a new plan.
He posed as his daughter and texted the man on the other end of the line, asking him to meet at the same place where he gave the girl the phone. The angry father brought a friend to help him make a citizen's arrest, and they recorded some of the interaction with Rabson. They recently posted the video to Facebook and users have shared it more than times. But in the search warrant, they reveal that Rabson reset his phone, deleting all evidence from his phone.
They still had evidence on the phone he gave the girl, though. Prosecutors charged him with felony arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd or lascivious behavior. A young man in his house told us Rabson wasn't home and couldn't be reached. His attorney told Action News he's waiting to see the evidence before figuring out a defense.
