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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Hats off to whomever provided Justice for Na’Ziyah Harris. May she rest in peace eternal, while Jarvis Butts sucks brimstone.
Yogi was right. Again.
Felons in prison often have a better sense of justice than legislators and judges.
Ask Moses ...
“Michigan does not have capital punishment.”
They do now.
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He looks concerned!! Hahahahahaha
Jarvis Butts.
Wow.
Sermon on the Mount
we’re all dirtbags
Suicide is the easy way out, considering what other prisoners would do to him at the first opportunity.
Death is too good for this guy. There must be Hell to pay.
When one Repents of their sins and accepts Jesus as their Savior All sins they committed are forgiven [put under the Blood Jesus shed for the remission of sin].
There are probably many who would be skeptical about this type of prisoner being viewed as a “suicide” in prison.
And I am one of them.
Yes it’s a formal name where you start and get classified and designated to start your bit
Georgia uses that terminology too as do many states
The Feds do not
The BOP is already waiting and ready lol
Frequently chomos go to protective custody but not always
And in PC you can still be got by some bug or somebody making a reputation
In the old days the AB would purposely send someone into PC units to make someone unliving
I guess that it is because there is supposedly forgiveness for all but one “unforgivable sin”. If I understand currectly that particular sin is the final rejection of Our Lord as Lord & Savior of the world. It would require a considerable amount of prayer & true repentance to be forgiven in such a situation. A person in prison may not live enough for that to happen.
We had a judge down here in Texas that would sentence child killers/molesters to the most violent prisons and put them in the general population. Death sentence with out an actual death sentence.
He DID kill the baby. It's irritating how the leftist media pretends a developing baby is not a human being, so baby murder can continue.
It's not so much the near moron level of IQ in some people, it's their small, underdeveloped prefrontal cortex that's the problem. Psychopaths have too much wild predator beast still left in them to be allowed to circulate freely in civil society. You can sometimes detect these animals by how they operate a motor vehicle, showing zero consideration of anybody around them.
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