BY
Jessica Schladebeck
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 10:33 AM
A Miami man accused of hitting a 5-year-old boy with a tennis racket wants the child abuse case against him dismissed under Florida’s Stand Your Ground self-defense law.
Osmailer Torres was arrested in July 2016 after surveillance video captured him snatching a tennis racket from a young boy and then hitting him with it at a playground at Miami’s First Presbyterian Church on Brickwell Avenue, the Miami Herald reported.
But in a motion to a judge requesting “immunity,” the 30-year-old tennis instructor’s attorney claimed he was only trying to protect his other students.
Defense lawyer Eduardo Pereira alleged the boy was the “initial aggressor” in the incident and had already been involved in “various violent altercations” with the other students.
Jessica Schladebeck
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 10:33 AM
A Miami man accused of hitting a 5-year-old boy with a tennis racket wants the child abuse case against him dismissed under Florida’s Stand Your Ground self-defense law.
Osmailer Torres was arrested in July 2016 after surveillance video captured him snatching a tennis racket from a young boy and then hitting him with it at a playground at Miami’s First Presbyterian Church on Brickwell Avenue, the Miami Herald reported.
But in a motion to a judge requesting “immunity,” the 30-year-old tennis instructor’s attorney claimed he was only trying to protect his other students.
Defense lawyer Eduardo Pereira alleged the boy was the “initial aggressor” in the incident and had already been involved in “various violent altercations” with the other students.