Alabama man sentenced to 40 years after murdering man who sexually abused his daughter

San Antonio Express News ^ | 09/20/2017 | By Darla Guillen

[Responsibility2nd]

Jay Maynor was sentenced to 40 years in prison after fatally shooting a man who sexually abused his daughter, Julia Maynor, 24.

Between the ages of 4 and 9, Julia Maynor was abused by her maternal grandfather, Raymond Brooks. Brooks pleaded guilty and served 27 months of a five-year sentence.

"Raymond molested me for either four or five years," Julia Maynor told Alabama News. "I don't remember when it started happening but I know it was for a very long time. It was long enough for me to think it was completely normal and made me to feel that he actually loves me in a different kind of way than my mother and father loves me."

In 2014, Julia Maynor said something to her father which prompted him to drive to Brooks' house and murder him. She says she can't remember what she said that spurred Jay Maynor to drive to Brooks' house that day, but that it had something to do with the abuse she sustained as a child.

On his way to Brooks' home, Jay Maynor also fired shots into a convenience store where he saw a man who'd reportedly been abusive to his stepdaughter.

Monday, Jay Maynor accepted a plea deal at a Cullman County, Alabama court in which he would plead guilty and his daughter would not have to testify in court.

"Basically he took it so that I didn't have to relive the molestation and also be on the stand in front of a bunch of people talking about and bringing back memories of the molestation," Julia Maynor told WVTM. "My father was protecting me, like a father should do. He is an amazing father — actually the best. He loves us so much."

Julia Maynor waived her right to anonymity following her father's sentencing. She says that the sentence is unfair.

"I'm going through hell," Julia Maynor told Alabama News. "Everything comes back to me as to why this has happened. I feel like it's my fault. I'm sad but yet mad."

She is currently considering a divorce from her husband.

"Me and my husband are now going through a divorce because of it. I have completely pushed him out of my life," she told the outlet. "I am back in the same mindstate that it is wrong, even though we are married and have three kids, it's wrong. I keep making him miserable with my miserable life."

Julia says that the current circumstances have made her revisit her tormented childhood.

"I can still remember his smell, which is awful to me. I overcame my PTSD, but now I have had to relive it all over again," she said.

[Responsibility2nd]

40 years?

Read the article. It explains why he took such a bad plea deal.

Hopefully another court ruling will get this man out soon.

[Seruzawa]

The DA is a scoombag.

[Lent]

A plea deal with a range of sentence
and the Judge took the upper range? Or a plea deal with 40? Makes a difference for appeal purposes.

[nickcarraway]

I think the daughtee is stronger tgan people are giving her credit for. Doesn’t she want to testify, rather than this?

[bk1000]

She would let her father rot in prison so that she wouldn’t have to tell her story and get all upset? There are no words...

Maybe a few, but I won’t print them.

Somehow “entitled diva snowflake” doesn’t quite say it.
She doesn’t deserve him.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Hopefully another court ruling will get this man out soon.

I tend to disagree...somewhat. Shooting up a convenience store while on the way to kill the perv shows he should be kept under wraps and receive some serious counseling. 40 years is a bad deal but a decent attorney could have worked a temp insanity plea and gotten him into a proper facility. Prison will do him no good.

[KingofZion]

What an absurd charge and sentence. Recall the judge and the prosecutor. There is something wrong with the sentence when the rapist child molestor walks free for years but his executioner is given 40 years.

[fella]

This would make a great presideatal pardon.

[Responsibility2nd]

That’s a good question. The daughter is willing to let her father possibly spend 40 years in prison?

She was raped and molested as a child. Yes I know testifying will bring back the memories. But memories cannot be as bad as the actual events.

Meanwhile her father languishes in prison.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

40 days would’ve been sufficient.

[caligatrux]

I think there is more going on in this story than is being reported.

[NonValueAdded]

On his way to Brooks' home, Jay Maynor also fired shots into a convenience store where he saw a man who'd reportedly been abusive to his stepdaughter.

That is a bit different from what the headline implies.

[piasa]

On his way to Brooks' home, Jay Maynor also fired shots into a convenience store

That there is why he got 40 yrs.

[Mariner]

Pardon is the appropriate course, or commutation.

A jury trial would have found him guilty of murder 3 and sentenced to 5yrs minus time served.

Or, completely hung.

Out in 13 months on probation.

[MWestMom]

Memories in PTSD format of traumatic events are as bad as the actual event. You relive, not remember, but relive every single moment - the smells, the sounds, how your body feels. It is literally reliving the moment. This is a tragedy.

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[NEMDF]

I tend to agree with you. She could have made the effort to go through the court sessions.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I agree with you, shooting up the conv store is completely out of control and may have doubled the sentence.

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[On his way to Brooks’ home, Jay Maynor also fired shots into a convenience store]

This is what sunk him.

[eastforker]

From the comments of article.

Daddy was 18 and momma was 15 when girl was conceived. (Wasn’t that Statutory rape at the time back in 1991 in Alabama?) Grandaddy probably didn’t like daddy too much for raping his daughter. I doubt they got along very well after that.

Daddy is crazy. I mean in 2014 he shoots into an occupied public building at a step-daughter’s former boyfriend.

Grandaddy (momma’s daddy) is trying to protect girl from nutcase daddy back in 2002. So Daddy accuses grandaddy of sexual abuse and coerces momma and daughter to go along with it. They’re probably terrified of him and what he might do to them if they don’t play along, seeing as how he’s so crazy that in 2014 he shoots into an occupied grocery store because a step-daughter’s former boyfriend is inside.

Daughter he fathered with mother in 1991 when he was 18 and mother was only 15 is now 24 so mother is around 39-40. Yet two years ago in 2014 he’s shooting at a teenager who is step-daughter’s boyfriend which probably means step-daughter is also a teenager. Sounds like he’s no longer with momma of daughter #1 and is with momma of younger step-daughter instead.

Zero physical evidence a crime was ever committed back when daughter was a little girl.

Maybe granddaddy is the one who plead guilty back in 2002 in exchange for a light sentence so granddaughter wouldn’t have to go through the pain of a trial either lying about granddaddy about stuff she doesn’t even understand or spilling the beans about how crazy daddy is? Or maybe grandaddy is just as bad as daddy is and did do it?

Now daddy takes a 40 year sentence in a plea bargain to prevent 24 year old daughter (who is now racked with guilt because she realizes what crazy daddy manipulated her into helping him do to granddaddy back in 2002) from having to go through the pain of testifying after daddy kills grandpa in 2014. Yet same daughter is willing to painfully spill her guts to the newspaper about it? Have you ever heard of Stockholm syndrome?