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.
Stunning imagination there!
I don’t know the full story. but I tend to agree.
Interesting that the daughter says she couldn’t remember what she said to her dad that set him off......I tend to think this gal has acquired some real manipulative skills along the way...
Makes me wonder what kind of consuellng she receives.
Clearly this was a case for the S-S-S strategy. Maybe with a Lorena Bobit demonstration as well.
A lot of people on this thread are like “he doesn’t deserve to be punished”.
Even ignoring the random shooting into a convenience store because he saw a guy he thought was ACCUSED of doing something wrong, this attitude is alarming.
If I see someone abusing another person, I act to stop the abuse, that’s one thing.
In this case, the abuse happened long ago. It was uncovered, there was a trial, a person was convicted and served time for the crime. Yes, seems like way too little time, but that’s how the criminal justice system works.
The argument here seems to be that if a person is convicted of a crime, and you think they didn’t get punished enough, it’s OK to go kill them.
Well, then make a reasonable argument that our LAWS should provide for the death sentence for cases of sex abuse. That will never happen, we can barely get the death penalty for mass murderers.
So we are left with law-and-order people arguing that when society will not support the death sentence for people, we should just kill them ourselves.
Well, who knows what went on during that conversation. It wouldn’t take much more than the truth to set your average dad off.
No doubt the girl has some serious personality issues.
And it is Alabama after all....:)
Sometimes a father just has to do what a father has to do. God Bless him
The only up side is he will be a hero and legend in the general prison population.
“testifying will bring back the memories”
Seems to me the memories are already back, given her divorce & obvious distress at the whole process. If she is “going thru hell”, then a little more hell to save her dad should be acceptable.
As it is, if she has a conscience, she faces 40 years of guilt & pain while her dad rots in jail. Conversely, possibly saving her dad from this fate might go a long way toward her emotional recovery & give her back some self esteem.
She should have testified, possibly resulting in jury nullification & a not guilty verdict. Surely the sentencing judge would consider her testimony.
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