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Police say a Virginia father severely beat up a family member after he says he found him standing nude from the waist down in the bedroom of his two young children.
They were just 2 and 3 years old.
Sixty-year-old Mark Stanley was visiting from North Carolina for the holidays.
When police responded to a 911 call on December 29, they found Stanley with severe injuries on his face from the pummeling he received from the father.
And the father was coming at Stanley with a handgun when they arrived.
Police commanded the father to drop the gun, and he did.
A police captain says deputies may have saved Stanley’s life.
The kids were taken to a hospital for evaluation.
Stanley is charged with two counts of indecent liberties and one count of domestic assault and could face more charges.
The father was not charged with anything.
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