Posted on 03/26/2026 10:07:32 AM PDT by Morgana
A pedophile who murdered a 13-year-old girl after getting her pregnant has died in prison in an apparent suicide, officials said.
Jarvis Butts, 43, was found dead in his cell at the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in Jackson, Michigan on Wednesday.
He was just two weeks into a 35 to 60 year sentence for the murder of Na'Ziyah Harris.
Prison staff said they 'provided life-saving measures which were unsuccessful' and noted that state police are investigating Butts's death as a suicide.
He pleaded guilty to murdering Harris in January 2024 after impregnating her and prosecutors said he targeted the young girl after previously having children with her aunt.
Butts was also sentenced to ten to fifteen years for sexually assaulting other children.
Prosecutors said Butts groomed Harris for two years before murdering her, finding that he often sent her sexually explicit texts and grew close to her family.
In the weeks before the murder, Butts searched online for abortions and abortion pills.
Harris was last seen on the morning of January 9, 2024, getting off a bus in Detroit.
Prosecutors said they uncovered text messages showing she met up with Butts on the day she disappeared.
'He was a classic and expert groomer and pedophile,' Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said when he was charged.
In September 2023, Harris allegedly text Butts to inform him she had missed her period and by November 2023 'the evidence shows Butts knows that she is pregnant.'
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Not surprised at the least. He could not kill the baby to hide his crimes so he killed her.
Color me skeptical on the suicide thing.
“Color me skeptical on the suicide thing.”
So? A dead child rapist is a good thing no matter how it happens.
And now the tax payer saves a little money!
slipped on a soap bar and drowned in a toilet bowl
I hope he changed his life and walk, though.
I believe cold-blooded murder should end in the murderer dying.
I'll take it as a win. One lest scumbag on the books.
I am not lamenting his loss, just believe he may have had some help leaving his mortal coils.
Either way he got aborted.
Is suicide considered a “violent end”?
That said, every single occupant cell should be equipped with a sturdy bar or hook, a length of rope and a step stool. Be pro-choice...let them choose.
Michigan does not have capital punishment.
Color me skeptical on the suicide thing.
Who cares? He ended up the way he should.
That’s not a good surname to have in prison...
And now he faces the ultimate judgment, as must we all.
Luke 13:1-5
Don’t die unrepentant
He is with his lord, Jeffrey Epstein, now.
“Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center”
This is a Prison?
If he “repents” how can God let a murderer in Heaven. Always confuses me. He’s still a murderer.
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