Father jailed for slapping his daughter-Handprint was reportedly visible two days later

A man who slapped his 7-year-old daughter so hard it left a hand print on her face for two days will serve 30 days and be monitored now anytime he visits her. The father, Brian Larry Krause, 35, was directed to serve 30 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence and his child was placed into protective custody with the Department of Children’s Services after he entered a guilty plea before Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court to the charge of child abuse. His sentence comes after a teacher noticed something odd about the 7-year-old girl when she returned to school after being absent for a day. ‘The teacher noticed the little girl was wearing make-up on her face and knew that was odd because she is 7 and never wore make-up before to school,’ said sheriff’s investigator Capt. Tommy Myers of how the crime was reported. ‘When she looked a little closer, under the make-up she could see the outline of a hand print.’ Myers said he could clearly see the hand print on the side of the child’s face when he was called in to examine the injury two days after it happened. ‘If you still have the outline of a hand print on the side of a child’s face after that long, then she was hit pretty hard,’ Myers said of the blow landed by the 230-pound father to his daughter. During a subsequent investigation, Myers learned the blow was struck when Krause became frustrated because his daughter would not get into the bath tub. It was at that point, the father slapped his daughter across the face. The injury was so pronounced that her mother did not send her to school the next day as it is believed the family may have had earlier dealings with child custody and was afraid of losing custody of the girl. It was two days later, after the mother applied make-up to the injury, the child was sent back to school and the injury discovered. Mr. Krause subsequently confessed to striking the girl. The mother was not charged for being an accessory after the fact. Along with sentencing Krause to jail time, Judge Ross warned him to abide by DCS rules when it comes to visiting his daughter and that any further hint of violent actions would cost him a year behind bars.