Father 'beats his daughter, 14, with a belt after learning that she had chosen a black teenager as her dance partner'

Aaron Aranza 'flew into a rage after learning that his daughter was dancing with a 15-year-old African-American friend at her grandmother's house'

He 'called the boy a racial epithet and pushed him'

Then he 'hit the girl with a belt and dragged her across the floor'

 
'Attack': Aaron Aranza, pictured left in his mugshot and right with his daughter, allegedly beat the 14-year-old girl with a belt and dragged her across the floor after learning she had picked a black dance partner

A father has been arrested for allegedly beating his 14-year-old daughter with a belt after he learned that she had chosen a black teenager to be her dance partner.

Aaron Aranza, 37, allegedly attacked his daughter on April 11 while she was having a party at her maternal grandmother's house in Houston, Texas to practice quinceanera dancing.

She had chosen a friend, a 15-year-old African-American boy, to dance with her, police said.

On learning this, Aranza became angry and stormed outside, where people at the party were gathered, and told them the party was over, the Houston Chronicle reported.

He demanded to know if she wanted the boy as her dance partner, using a racial slur to refer to him and saying to his daughter: 'Are you serious?'

Aranza then allegedly pushed the teenage boy, saying: 'I don't care that you are a kid.'

He then allegedly took his daughter into the house, hit her with a belt, dragged her and threw her so that she hit her arm on a coffee table.

He told her he was going to take her home with him, even though she lives with her mother, and he dragged her across the front yard before leaving.

Police later arrested him on charges of injury to a child.

He is being held in the Harris County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.

Link : http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-man-accused-of-beating-daughter-who-5507003.php