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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True, but an “in-kind” punishment for his crime would — in my opinion — be more “just”.
Prison justice where liberal justice fails.
I hear ya but...
Moses (by his hand)
King David (by his command)
The Apostle Paul (by his command, Stephen, apparently the first Christian martyr after the Ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ)
Same question might be made of all those who have committed murder in their hearts (see above comments).
If people only knew a fraction of the sins they commit - repentence would be common.
Kinda like Arkancide maybe? Suicide by a shiv in the back ...
True. Though the state lacks it in an official capacity, it can often be delivered ... at a later date.
Are you perfect? If you’ve never, even once, fallen short of God’s perfection ... then you deserve Heaven on your own merits.
The rest of us don’t deserve salvation at all, and depend on God’s mercy.
I do not know the state of that man’s soul when he died ... IF he died unrepentant, he’s already in Hell. But that’s not my judgment to make.
Rope and tree is all they need.
Who cares, as long as he is dead.
Just not on the books.
Actually, for child molesters, there is a death penalty in Michigan, just not exacted by the state but by his fellow inmates. When such prisoners, or others the correctional system wants to kill, are put into the general population, their killing is a foregone conclusion.
Hell no I’m not perfect but it’s murder. It’s not like telling a lie or drinking too much. Talking about taking someone’s life.
Life is short when you use your crotch for a brain aka justice.
I know.
It’s murder. And rape. And pedophilia.
And those are horrible.
God will forgive any sin to the truly repentant. For which I am most grateful.
See Matthew 12:31-32, for example.
True repentance is for God to judge, not for us to judge. And God cannot be fooled.
In general, it’s not a last name most people would want to go through life with.
True.
Well, he may have received that too! Prisons are loaded with homosexuals.
See-More-Butts no more!
“And there was much rejoicing”
The Ten Commandments are not listed in the order of importance. They are all equal. A murderer, a thief, a liar, an adulterer, all inflict pain on another human.
Being murdered, I would say is the most painless because one is instantly with God. The survivors suffer. But I digress....
Satan had his front door open to welcome the new resident.
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