​Ontario Teens Who Beat the Shit out of Dad, And Dad Who Got Beat Up, Have Been Charged

Both the teens and the dad involved in a viral video posted online last week—where the latter appeared to have been brutally beat up by the former—have been charged by York Regional police.

Police announced Tuesday that four boys involved in the Dec. 2 fight—a 15-year-old, two 16-year-olds, and another 18-year-old—have been each charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm. The boys, whose names are protected under Youth Criminal Justice act, were reportedly from a handful of different Aurora, Ontario, Catholic schools. The 52-year-old father, who appeared to take the brunt of the damage and was left bloodied by the attack, was also charged with one count of assault. The man has not yet been publicly identified. In the footage—separated into two videos—the father appears to get into an altercation with a group of students after stepping into a fight between his child and another boy. The father, trying to break up the fight, swings and hits one of the students, which causes the crowd to come at him. "I thought they were jumping in on him. What would you do if it was your kid?" the father asked the students in one of the videos. Despite the man's attempts to explain that he was only trying to defend his son from getting attacked, the students involved in the assault weren't having it. "You're dead, you're fucking dead!" one of the students yells, before throwing the first punch at the father. After the students attack the parent and chase him to a suburb, the video shows the father plea for them to stop before getting kicked and punched by multiple students. After bystanders step in to help him up, the bloodied man gets into a vehicle with his son and drives off. Police say that the father sustained "serious" injuries during the attack, but would not describe the extent of them. Police also noted that one of the students sustained minor injuries from the attack, and added that they are still looking for additional video of the incident. Follow Jake Kivanc on Twitter.