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Dad arrested for taking daughter’s phone as punishment
'I was being a parent,' he told CBSDFW. 'You know, a child does something wrong, you teach them what's right.
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'You tell them what they did wrong and you give them a punishment to show that they shouldn't be doing that.'
The girl's mother, Michelle Steppe, said in court on Monday that she called police that same day, who then went to Jackson's home and asked for the iPhone back, but the father refused.
'At that point, I decided the police don't interfere with my ability to parent my daughter,' Jackson told WFAA.
Steppe said that she was upset because the property was not his to take as it belongs to her and that she maintained the cell phone plans under her name.
'You can't take someone's property, regardless if you're a parent or not,' she told WFAA.
Jackson and Steppe are no longer a couple and were never married but had their daughter together, who is now 15.
