READ JAYME CLOSS' STATEMENT AFTER KIDNAPPER JAKE THOMAS PATTERSON IS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON

NEWSWEEK ^ | 5/24/2019 | HAYLEY PROKOS

[bitt]

A Wisconsin judge ruled on Friday that the man who admitted to slaying the parents of 13-year-old Jayme Closs before abducting and holding her captive for 88 days will spend the rest of his life serving two life terms in prison without parole, according to the New York Times and Associated Press.

In late March, Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, of Gordon, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one kidnapping. This was just five months after authorities discovered Jayme’s parents, James and Denise Closs, shot to death in the family’s Barron, Wisconsin, home, and realized the couple’s teenage daughter was missing.

The case garnered national attention as a hunt for Jayme ensued. The search ended when the teen escape from captivity and Patterson was arrested in mid-January.

The couple’s extended family spoke on Friday about the lasting impact of her their deaths, but it was Jayme’s statement that made media headlines that afternoon. Family attorney Chris Gramstrup read the statement on behalf of the teen, who was not in the courtroom, to Barron County Circuit Court Judge James C. Babler:

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“Last October, Jake Patterson took a lot of things that I love away from me. It makes me the most sad that he took away my mom and my dad. I loved my mom and dad very much, and they loved me very much. They did all they could to make me happy and protect me. He took them away from me forever.

“I felt safe in my home, and I loved my room and all of my belongings. He took all of that too. I don’t want to even see my home or my stuff because of the memory of that night. My parents and my home were the most important things in my life. He took them away from me in a way that will always leave me with a horrifying memory.

“I have to have an alarm in the house just so I can sleep. I used to love to go out with my friends. I loved to go to school. I loved to do dance. He took all of those things away from me too. It’s too hard for me to go out in public. I get scared and I get anxious. These are just ordinary things that anyone like me should be about to do, but I can’t because he took them away from me.

“But there’s some things that Jake Patterson never take from me. He can’t take my freedom. He thought that he could own me but he was wrong. I was smarter. I watched his routine, and I took back my freedom. I will always have my freedom, and he will not.

“Jake Patterson can never take away my courage. He thought he could control me, but he couldn’t. I feel what he did is what a coward would do. I was brave. He was not.

“He can never take away my spirit. He thought that he could make me like him, but he was wrong. He can’t ever change me or take away who I am. He can’t stop me from being happy and moving forward with my life. I will go on to do great things in my life, and he will not.

“Jake Patterson will never have any power over me. I feel like I have some power over him, because I get to tell the judge what I think should happen to him. He stole my parents from me. He stole almost everything I love from me. For 88 days he tried to steal me, and he didn’t care who he hurt or who he killed to do that.

“He should stay locked up forever.”

[cba123]

Wow.

[lightman]

Compare and contrast with the AOC drivel.

Send that girl to Congress!

[Fiddlstix]

Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, of Gordon, Wisconsin,.....the man who admitted to slaying the parents of 13-year-old Jayme Closs before abducting and holding her captive for 88 days will spend the rest of his life serving two life terms in prison without parole.......

WHY In The Name OF All That's Holy IS this Miscreant Going To Receive Housing And Food At the taxpayers expense???

He's 21 years old and he'll be getting "FREE" Food, Clothes, Housing And Medical for the rest of his Evil Life!

WHY Didn't He Receive The DEATH Sentence??

How About Some "Old Time" Justice!

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....in a few short weeks it will be spring. The snows of winter will flow away, the ice will vanish, the air will become soft and balmy.
The annual miracle of the years will awaken and come to pass.
The rivulet will run its soaring course to the sea.
The timid desert flowers will put fourth their tender shoots.
The glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the rose.
From every tree top, some wild songster will carol his mating song.
Butterflies will sport in the sunshine.

But you will not be here to enjoy it. Because I command the sheriff of the county to lead you away to some remote spot, swing you by the neck from a bough of some sturdy oak and let you hang until you are Dead, Dead, Dead!
You cold-blooded, blood-thirsty, throat-cutting, murdering son of a bitch!

.....Judge Roy Bean

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NB:There are several versions of Judge Roy Bean's words in this case and also the person who he was passing judgment upon.

[cherry]

remember we had a number of freepers who doubted this was a real kidnapping......as a foundation, I think we should always give the victims the benefit of the doubt.....

so sorry for this young girl....she seemed really attached to her parents and they to her.....

reminds me of the Jennifer Short murder.....somebody came into her home, killed her parents, and abducted her...but she was found dead a few months later....she was an only child as well.....nobody has ever been caught...

[bigbob]

Bravo for her, and I hope she is able to live a good life.

In another time/place, the creep who took away her childhood would have had a date with a rope.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#5: "He'll be getting "FREE" Food, Clothes, Housing And Medical for the rest of his Evil Life!"

Jeffrey Dahmer didn't last long in a Wisconsin prison. I doubt this punk will make it long either.
 

[luvie]

She was brave and he was not. What an uderstatement. Thank God he’ll never see the light of day. Personally, I would have preferred he die.

[Rusty0604]

Powerful statement.

[HKMk23]

I get the sentiment, but I also think monsters should spend a decent amount of time living with the haunting reality of their crimes.

I’d be OK putting them in General Population for a year before their execution; you know, so they could have the full-time experience of wondering when or if some other inmate was going to sidle up and jam a shiv between their ribs.

After the year is up, then hang ‘em.

If they’ve survived.

[gundog]

He might have a shorter life in the general population than he would on death row.

[luvie]

Ok, I can go for that plan, too. LOL!

[ChildOfThe60s]

It has been argued that life in prison is a worse punishment than execution.

That may or may not be accurate, though I am not in agreement with doing it for that reason regardless.

I argue that in a case like this, with multiple human lives taken, the contemporary notion punishment should not be the guiding principle. No, his life should be taken in retribution, for justice, and not 20 years later. Would he suffer less? Possibly, compared to prison. But evil must be dealt with firmly and decisively. It should be removed from existence promptly and permanently.

So many have this peculiar idea that retribution is not “civilized”. That we are “better” than that. Hogwash.
Retribution, a life for a life, is not simply deserved, it is also essential for the preservation of a civilized society.

[MrEdd]

They were pretty rank.

Then we have the dedicated duo here who habitually insist that we must fix our attention on restoration of the sexual predators, because they believe that the victim will get better all by themselves.

[MrEdd]

They were pretty rank.

Then we have the dedicated duo here who habitually insist that we must fix our attention on restoration of the sexual predators, because they believe that the victim will get better all by themselves.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

WHY Didn't He Receive The DEATH Sentence??

Wisconsin abolished its death penalty in 1853.

[43north]

Well stated. I agree.

I too am a child of the 60’s and I remember... some of it.

[FrdmLvr]

She said he couldn’t take her courage, so I hope she grabs on to that courage and starts to take her life back. I can’t begin to imagine the horror she experienced, but I do hope she overcomes her anxiety very soon and puts the pieces back together. Maybe she can begin now that the sentencing is done. Godspeed and blessings, Jayme.