Sentenced: Robert A. Lamb considered his 7-year-old son as a sparring partner

[Sugar Cookie]

45-year-old father. Robert A. Lamb admitted in court Friday that he repeatedly injured his 7-year-old son after state child welfare workers placed the boy in his custody despite his lengthy history of domestic violence and an order barring him from seeing his two younger sons.

Moments later, Judge Katharine von Ter Stegge sentenced him to a year and a half in prison, to be followed by three years of post-prison supervision.

In a separate development, court records show that a civil lawsuit filed in August by the boy’s guardian against Oregon’s Department of Human Services has settled for $600,000, pending court approval. The suit alleged the child welfare agency never should have placed the boy in his father’s custody in October 2017, considering his lengthy history of domestic violence.

Lamb was in a “bullying-type relationship” with his son and humiliated him repeatedly, whipping him with a belt if he didn’t brush his teeth or striking his hands with a spatula if he didn’t do his jumping jacks just right, prosecutor Amber Kinney said at Lamb’s sentencing.

In February the boy told his principal that his father also would repeatedly push him to the ground and demand he get up or force him to run back and forth in their yard in freezing cold and snow, wearing pajama pants and a short-sleeved shirt.

Lamb initially downplayed his conduct, contending his son was his “sparring partner’’ and telling police all about his proficiency in martial arts, the prosecutor said.

“He went on and on with law enforcement about his number of wins and losses,’’ Kinney said.

Lamb’s defense lawyer Shannon Mortimer called the case “a tragedy on a number of levels.’’

Before the state suddenly placed the boy in Lamb’s care in October 2017, he hadn’t had a relationship with his son since the boy was an infant and “probably wasn’t prepared to parent,’’ Mortimer said.

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/201...edly-injuring-his-son.html#incart_river_index

 

[Fellofftheporch]

What a narcisstic asshole.

 

[Sejanus]

Father of the year if he was a goddamn Klingon

 

[Kimberix]

Before the state suddenly placed the boy in Lamb’s care in October 2017, he hadn’t had a relationship with his son since the boy was an infant and “probably wasn’t prepared to parent,’’ Mortimer said

You think bitch? The motherfucker wasnt prepared to be a human either! Poor boy i imagine he was failed by his mother as well as the state and his dipshit father

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Sep 27, 2018

A Gresham man ordered in 2016 to stay away from his two young sons gained custody of an older third son at the recommendation of Oregon's child welfare agency last fall and quickly made the 7-year-old his "sparring partner," court records show.

The boy limped onto his school bus in such visible pain one February morning that the driver alerted school officials.

Eventually, the boy disclosed that his father slapped his head, smacked his hands, whipped his back and legs with a belt and forced him to run in his pajamas through their snowy backyard, police records say. He fell. Every time he tried to get up, the boy said, his dad pushed him back to the ground.

The Department of Human Services is facing a $1.5 million lawsuit brought on the boy's behalf.

The lawsuit, filed in August, contends the agency should never have sent the boy to live with his father. Background checks should have turned up the man's his violent past, which includes a 2016 restraining order involving his other children and a 2008 conviction for strangling his girlfriend.

Lamb did not have a relationship with his son before the state placed the boy in his care in September 2017, the lawsuit says. The boy lived with his 44-year-old dad for five months before the bus driver noticed his injuries.

The boy told his principal later at school that the bruises from his father's blows made it hurt to sit. He also said that he couldn't make his pinky finger point straight since his father smashed it with a spatula.

His father was arrested 10 days later.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/09/state_cleared_gresham_dad_with.html

 

[ghosttruck]

This guy might be a sperm donor but he's no father!

 

[Granmaw]

I hope he finds a TRUE "sparring partner" in prison! Ugh, just him using that as an excuse to beat that child makes my blood boil.

 

[Ripley]

Can you imagine this douche bag showing off his karate moves to the cops? They must have instantly hated him.

 

[62julietandvoid]

Can you imagine this douche bag showing off his karate moves to the cops? They must have instantly hated him.
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Any update on this fat asshole who was obviously crying just before this shit-pic was taken? What a fucking coward!