A father-to-be was arrested for attacking a pedophile who he caught sexually abusing a five year-old boy, police say.

Richard Adams, 20, allegedly assaulted the unnamed 17 year-old child molester after walking in on him assaulting the child in Eastlake, Ohio, Thursday.

Adams, who has been charged with felonious assault, told Cleveland19 that he ‘snapped’ on witnessing the abuse take place.

Richard Adams says he ‘snapped’ and attacked a 17 year-old pedophile after he caught the teen molesting a five year-old boy (Picture: Cleveland19)

Adams’ arrest mugshot. He has been charged with felonious assault (Picture: Eastlake PD)

He said: ‘I was doing laundry and I walked out and there was the 17-year-old and he had the five-year-old’s penis in his mouth.’


The assault suspect says he got the child away from his alleged attacker, then flew into a rage and began beating the suspected child molester.

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He posted a video of the bloodied and bruised teenager, who has not been named because of his age, on Facebook afterwards.



That clip has since been taken down.

Adams says the five year-old victim told him that he had also been molested by the pedophile the night before. Neither his relationship to Adams nor his alleged abuser has been outlined by police.

A heavily censored screengrab of a video Adams posted to Facebook afterwards showing the suspected pedophile bloodied and bruised after the attack. That clip has since been taken down (Picture: Cleveland19)

He continued: ‘I want everyone to stop all the child offenders and predators out there. I don’t want any child to have to go through that.

‘I am scared. I have a kid on the way and I do want to be there for my child’s birth and that’s the only thing that’s worrying me right now. I almost want to cry saying it.’

Adams has been freed on $5,000 bond, ahead of his next court appearance in April, and has set up a GoFundMe page to cover his legal costs.

The alleged rapist remains in custody, with the five year-old boy now in care of social services.