A Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy is off the job without pay after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend and her 13-year-old daughter.

A Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy is off the job without pay after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend and her 13-year-old daughter.

42-year-old Ralph Dobbins was charged with two counts of aggravated assault Monday and released from the Shelby County Jail yesterday.

Dobbins has been a Shelby County Sheriff’s deputy since 2004.

According to an affidavit, his live-in girlfriend told police Dobbins grabbed her daughter by the hair and yanked her to the ground. She said he held her down by her neck and started choking her and punched her in the arm.

The girlfriend said when she intervened, Dobbins grabbed her neck and slammed her to the ground, started choking her until she couldn’t breathe and punched her in the lip.

A witness also told police they saw Dobbins assault the mother and daughter.

We stopped by their home, but no one answered.

“I was surprised to hear it even happened,” said neighbor Quinton Joyner.

Joyner lives down the street from their home. He says the street has been quiet since he’s lived there for a couple years. Joyner is concerned about what happened but says the fact Dobbins is a deputy doesn’t faze him.

“As with superstars or public figures, we tend to think that they’re infallible, but they are very fallible. They’re human beings just like the rest of us,” said Joyner.