{"id":81509,"date":"2026-01-08T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81509\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:51:12","slug":"erie-county-dad-who-allegedly-used-a-cattle-prod-on-his-children-returns-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81509\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County dad who allegedly used a cattle prod on his children, returns to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">VERMILION, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A dad who allegedly used a cattle prod to discipline his two young children, has a hearing in Erie County Court of Common Pleas Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In September 2025, Robert Bores pleaded guilty to two counts of domestic violence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, in December 2025, the attorney for Bores filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge Roger Binette is expected to Thursday if he will accept the motion to withdrow the plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bores was arrested on March 13, 2024 after a tip from Children Services led Erie County Sheriff\u2019s Detectives to his home in the area of State Route 113 in Florence Township.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"An Erie County man was arrested\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/33PIYO7SZ5G6RIHUFAA6U5LM3E.PNG\" width=\"980\" height=\"736\" \/>An Erie County man was arrested(Source: Erie County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to detectives, the children were seven and eight years old and are currently being cared for by a relative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland19.com\/video\/2024\/03\/15\/erie-county-man-accused-using-cattle-prod-discipline-his-young-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Erie County man accused of using a cattle prod to discipline his young children<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VERMILION, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; A dad who allegedly used a cattle prod to discipline his two young children,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[32242,136,142,32240,138,137,16041,32241],"class_list":{"0":"post-81509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-cattle-prod","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-county","11":"tag-erie-county-cattle-prod","12":"tag-erie-headlines","13":"tag-erie-news","14":"tag-plea","15":"tag-robert-bores"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}