Posted on 09/20/2017 8:44:51 AM PDT by 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.
At first glance, it looks like the judge deliberately imposed the larger sentence, hoping that an appeals court would reduce it as being overly harsh. However, the part about the defendant shooting at the convenience store on the way to killing the scumbag makes me wonder a bit about the whole thing...
Sounds like a job for the late Paul Harvey and "The Rest of the Story!"
A lot of good comments but one thing is certain, it was not justice by any reasonable standards.
Dad could have shot his elbows, knees, and cut his d*ck off privately.
Discharging a firearm in the direction of a person is a Federal felony, hit or miss. Some of the sentencing then becomes non-negotiable, along with a long-term Fed conviction on a criminal record.
The molester is dead, which is about the only good that came of this.
My first thought as well.
He looks like a biker, so there will be alleged freepers here who don’t think the sentence was harsh enough.
FWIW, here’s a petition for his pardon:
“She would let her father rot in prison so that she wouldn’t have to tell her story and get all upset?”
diminishing the psychological effects of deviant abuse and rape...nice
If the dead guy was just an "innocent" civilian then this could constitute,at least,second degree murder...which certainly could warrant 40 years.
You wouldn’t get 40 years for shooting at a convenience store. Yoy wouldn’t get anywhere close to 40 years for child molestation.
I don’t get it. The old man plead guilty and served 27 months. THEN his son in law shot him? Why didn’t he shoot The sick creep before he did prison time.
His crime wasn’t shooting a man.
His crime was overruling the black robes.
No indeed. But such actions would cast some doubt on one’s mental stability. Which is the avenue his attorney should have tried.
No; but you *might* get 40 years for shooting at the conv store when the story is that you are pissed off at something else. The problem; that act screams “out of control, with a gun, danger to society.” At least to me, it does. I’m not advocating one thing or another, but I could see a judge finding maximum alarm from such an act.
“diminishing the psychological effects of deviant abuse and rape...nice”
Really? I “diminished the psychological effects” because I believe going to prison for FORTY YEARS is worse than having to tell what happened to you as a child? That she would let her father do that knowing she could intervene? Are you sure you are on the right website?
There is a time for harsh sentencing, and there is a time for leniency. I have issues with the shots fired into the convenience store, but I am have no issues at all with putting down a predator who harms children.
I thought in Texas, “They needed kill’n” was an acceptable reason for murder in these situations?
Yes, but at the minimum he would have a disturbed emotional state defense. To me, it’s not clear what happened at the convenience store, or if he was charged with it.
His daughter Julia Maynor, now 24yrs old should have testified on behalf of her father IMO.....even if it would mean she’d have to repeat her grandfathers sexual abuse, she’s a grown woman now and really should have stepped up.
This story happened in Alabama. Where - believe it or not - there are even more rednecks than in Texas.
I have an issue with the daughter...at 24 yr’s she wouldn’t take the stand in front of people but now that he’s been sentenced she has no problem speaking to news people with it all about her wrecked life and what she thinks and feels about her misery.
She should have stepped up and testified FOR her father....
But SHE won’t spend 40 yrs getting beyond that as she already said she has done so.
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