- April 18, 2024
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A 36-year-old Flagler Beach man beat and humiliated two children "for not doing their cleaning chores to his satisfaction," according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office report.
The man, North Daytona Avenue resident Jason Moffit, was charged July 2 with two counts of abuse with great harm/cruelty to a child.
About a week before the July 2 incident, the children told a neighbor they were being abused, and the neighbor helped them create a safety plan to come to her if they were ever abused again, according to the report.
They used it at about 2 a.m. July 2, sneaking out after Moffit "physically, verbally and emotionally abused them throughout the evening," punching, hitting and kicking the children, cutting off the girl's waist-length hair to above her shoulders and shaving the boy's head as a punishment, according to a Sheriff's Office report. The children said that he had come home angry that evening and had argued with his girlfriend in front of them.
The neighbor called the police after the children arrived at her house. Law enforcement officers noted that the boy's face was swollen and his head freshly shaved, with "multiple red razor burn brush strokes and abrasions" to his scalp.
There were abrasions on his arm and abdomen, where he said Moffit had hit and kicked him. The girl also had bruises on her face an arm and hip, and told law enforcement officers that Moffit had punched her.
Moffit was released on a combined $10,000 bond.
