Dallas father Ronald Jackson was stunned when he discovered an inappropriate text on his 12-year-old daughter’s cell phone.
Jackson searched and found even more naughty messages, so he took the phone away as punishment.
A few hours later, officers from the Grand Prairie Police Department knocked on his front door---asking for the iPhone 4 back.
Turns out, the daughter’s mom Michelle Steppe had called the police.
“As a mom, I’m upset because—number one—the property belongs to me,” she told WFAA.
“You can’t take someone’s property, regardless if you’re a parent or not.”
But when the cops arrived, Jackson became determined to see his punishment through---at the time, he had no idea of the ordeal he would face.
“At that point, I decided the police don’t interfere with my ability to parent my daughter,” the 36-year-old said.
“I was being a parent. You know, a child does something wrong, you teach them what’s right,” he told CBS. “You tell them what they did wrong and you give them a punishment to show that they shouldn’t be doing that.”