Brooklyn v. Qasem

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 1659

Syllabus

Domestic violence; R.C. 2919.25; manifest weight; reasonable parental discipline; affirmative defense; proper and reasonable; totality of the circumstances. Father's conviction for domestic violence is vacated as against the manifest weight of the evidence. The evidence established that father's discipline of his ten-year-old son was proper and reasonable under the totality of the circumstances such that the affirmative defense of reasonable parental discipline applied.