(Radio Iowa) — Emotions boiled over at the sentencing hearing for a Sioux City teenager who was charged with sexually abusing a three-year-old girl he was babysitting in June of last year. Amari Dean, who was 17 when the abuse occurred, was given a deferred judgment and probation. That did not sit well with about two dozen others in the courtroom who are the victim’s relatives and friends of the family. The judge called for back-up and the father of the three-year-old victim was among those ordered to leave the courtroom.

The girl’s father says Dean should have been sentenced to prison.

Several officers from the Woodbury County Sheriff’s office and the Sioux City Police Department were summoned to the courthosue to deal with the disturbance. Woodbury County Deputy Deputy Cliff Moodie was in the courtroom and responsible for taking Dean from the county jail to the court hearing.

Dean was escorted out of the courthouse by authorities.