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Mountain Home man sentenced for child abuse

Thursday, November 21, 2013

A Mountain Home man originally charged with felony child abuse was sentenced to a year in jail during a hearing Nov. 13.

Paul F. Carpentier III will actually spend less than two months in confinement after the judge suspended a majority of that jail time.

As part of the plea agreement that reduced the charge to a misdemeanor count of injury to a child, Carpentier will also spend two years on supervised probation. He was convicted of wilfully harming a three-year-old child during an incident Dec. 17, 2012.

According to the criminal complaint, he was at the home of a woman and her three children on East 16th North Street that evening. He was watching the children while she took care of errands, according to a report from the Mountain Home Police Department.

When the woman returned home that night and checked in on her children, she noticed that the three-year-old had several bruises on his face.

The police report alleges that Carpentier told the woman that he slammed the child into the bathroom floor and wall before he repeatedly struck the child in the face with his fists. He then beat the child's buttocks with a belt.

In light of the injuries, the child was seen at Elmore Medical Center following the alleged assault. The attending physician said the extent of injuries were not caused by a household accident or from another child, the police report added. In addition to the bruises, a mark consistent with a belt was discovered on the child's buttocks.

None of the children in the home were biologically related to Carpentier.

The reason for the alleged assault was never disclosed.

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  • Why on Earth would a judge suspend ANY of the time this man deserves to spend in prison? For what he did to this child, he deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. One of the problems with our society is that we fail to see the value in children.

    There is no excuse for what this monster did to this child and now he's basically going to go unpunished for it. Way to go judge, way to go!

    -- Posted by ItsJustMeAgain on Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 7:14 AM
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    So a jerk beats up a 3 year old defenseless child and plea bargins down to a year while another jerk knees a police officer and is facing 8 years in jail. I am not seeing or understanding how the Idaho justice system figures this is correct.

    -- Posted by B Mullen on Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 11:51 AM

  • whats going to happen when he gets out and he ends up killing another kid or even this child

    -- Posted by ginger18 on Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 6:12 PM

  • Disgusting! Who is the judge in this case and where in the hell is his common sense? The sentence is absolutely an injustice to the family and to every citizen. Wake up people, put an end to this for your own sake.

    -- Posted by RichE on Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 8:04 PM

  • Out of the year 305 days suspended. Do you think that little boy got Justice?

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Thu, Nov 21, 2013, at 8:29 PM

  • This is absolutely disgusting. How can anyone let this guy off this easy. What happened in the court room? Why such an easy sentence? I feel so bad for the little one....watch out for this guy you single ladies, when he gets out.

    -- Posted by MHRAISED on Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 10:09 AM

  • I'd love to get this guy in a small enclosed room for about 10 minutes ! The guy should have gotten the same as what he did to the kid, beat in the face and a strap to his ***. The judge who slapped him on the wrist, should get the same too.

    -- Posted by oldrider on Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 12:18 PM

  • So sad when the law should be strict with monsters like this there not! When my family member got an epileptic seizure and while having the seizure grabbed a student by the neck without any knowledge of what he did because it was happened while he had aseizure and later was proven it was an accident and ALL CHARGES WERE DROPPED WHERE WAS THE THE MEDIA TO REPORT HE WAS NOT GUILTY????? (Im sure a lot of you heard about this) Nowhere nobody ever reported any of it and here is this true child abuser getting pretty much little to nothing in jail for abusing this innocent child sometimes the law sucks!!!

    -- Posted by sun3 on Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 1:24 PM

  • I see all of you showing anger for the sentence he received. Not a single one of you were in the courtroom in this case. None of you know what went on in that courtroom. This "monster" as you call him is still a family man himself and is paying his debt to society. Whether you believe he is serving enough time is your business. Obviously something happened in this case that the prosecuting office did not have a solid enough case to go to trial, therefore a plea deal was put on the table. Plea agreements are only offered when and if the prosecuting attorney does not have a leg to stand on in court.

    -- Posted by mountainhomenative on Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 10:15 PM

  • Really who cares as to whether or not we know what went on inside the court room he willingly admitted to beating this 3 yr old child an adult grown men beating on a 3 yr old NO EXCUSE WHATS SO EVER FOR HIS ACTIONS!!!!!! How can a child defend himself against a grown coward like this???? NO EXCUSES FOR CHILD ABUSE REGARDLESS WETHER ITS A FIRST TIME OFFENSE OR NOT!!!!

    -- Posted by sun3 on Sat, Nov 23, 2013, at 2:09 PM

  • As the wife of the man all of you are calling a monster, coward, jerk, and whatever other names you people can come up with; you have no clue as to what kind of man my husband is! He is neither a child beater or child murderer. For years this man has been nothing but a dedicated father, husband, and member of this community! This article was written in haste and has numerous misrepresentations and mistakes. Before any of you spoke your minds you should have read other articles about my husband's case and you would have read that he NEVER admitted to beating this child, nor did he kill a child.

    -- Posted by mountainhomenative on Sat, Nov 23, 2013, at 8:39 PM
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    Question because there seems to be some different comments made that don't fit the story.

    Did he make a plea deal?

    Did it go to trial?

    If it went to trial did a jury find him guilty?

    If he wasn't found guilty by trial nor plead guilty how did he get any sentence?

    Someone isn't telling the truth or a correct story.

    -- Posted by Trouble2011 on Mon, Nov 25, 2013, at 1:50 PM

  • Paul is a good kid and I wouldnt believe anything Elmore County does they are corrupt and make mountains out of mole hills on a regular basis . The judges in Elmore COunty adn the prosecuting attorney have no business administering justice they are the joke of Elmore COunty.

    -- Posted by novia88401 on Tue, Nov 26, 2013, at 10:35 AM

  • They had no evidence that tied him to the alleged assault. The Dr couldn't confirm if he actually did it or how long the bruises were there, so they had to throw everything they had against him out. Also,it was not her house, it was his. I know both parties and can only say without a doubt, I bet she did it and blamed him, he was working, when he got home she left with her sister to go shopping, was gone for about a half hour, and the paper has it wrong, it took her days to leave. What kinda person would let their child stay around someone who supposedly beat them?? Days people!! They had a fight and then she left. I have witnesses first hand the person they both are and I wouldn't let my children be around her. He's a great dad, and a hard worker to provide for his family. He did not deserve this. It pleaded out because he did admit to swatting the child with a belt, which I have done my own when they are acting up and will continue to do so. So before people start judging him, make sure you have some facts that people didn't just make up.

    -- Posted by savannahgirl19 on Wed, Nov 27, 2013, at 12:16 AM

  • And no, the prosecution came up with the plea deal and it did not go to trial

    -- Posted by savannahgirl19 on Wed, Nov 27, 2013, at 12:18 AM
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