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She was 12 and, her mother said, she was not fitting in with her father's new family. She grabbed her camouflage-patterned iPhone 4s and shot a text to a friend – roughly: "I don't like his ratchet girlfriend or her kids." It was 2013. That word – "ratchet" – was running through rap songs and teens' text messages, thought to mean a low-class and clueless diva. When Ronald Jackson saw it, he took away his daughter's cellphone. "I was being a parent," Mr Jackson told broadcaster CBS-DFW. "A child does something wrong, you teach them what's right." Mr Jackson, 36, from Dallas, Texas, was ultimately arrested and charged with property theft, because he had taken his daughter's iPhone and refused to give it back. Following a long legal battle, a Dallas County Criminal Court judge last week ruled the state did not have enough evidence to continue the case and ordered a jury to find him not guilty.