To any parents out there who are thinking of leaving their children with a babysitter for any length of time:
Please don’t.
Take your child with you at all possible. The screaming and crying may suck, especially if you’re anywhere that silence is expected, but it’s better to spend an hour or two outside calming your baby than spending your lifetime wondering if there was anything you missed when you hired James Allen Wamsley to babysit for you.
Seriously, if you absolutely must allow the child of a friend of a friend to watch your own children, please - at least do several things.
- Search for their MySpace or Facebook profile and go over it with a fine-toothed comb.
- If you subscribe to a criminal background check service, run a quick background check on them.
- Get references.
MySpace and Facebook profiles will show you the side of this person that only comes out when they’re around their friends.
A background check will tell you if they’ve been in trouble before with the law.
References will hopefully keep you from being the first on the block to have your nine-month-old baby boy raped.
On the 25th of May, 2007, 17-year-old James Allen Wamsley was asked to babysit a neighbor’s 3-year-old toddler and 9-month-old baby while this neighbor was off at a Memorial Day family barbecue get-together.
James Wamsley was happy to help out, and took charge of the kids as their mother drove off to go visiting with friends and relatives.
This woman returned at 11:20 at night and walked into her house to find what is probably every parent’s worst nightmare - her baby had been severely injured.
She immediately called 911 and paramedics arrived at 11:30 to find this little guy with internal injuries that were raw and bleeding. The 9-month-old baby was rushed to a local hospital where doctors attempted to treat him for sexual assault.
Unfortunately, due to the extensive nature of the baby’s injuries, the local doctors were unequipped to perform the level of surgery on an infant that was required and the decision was made to airlift the child to the Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, where due to privacy laws, further information on the baby’s status is unattainable.
Perhaps that is for the best, really. I hope that child never remembers what James Wamsley did to him. I hope that the infant grows up into a normal boy, like any other boy who was untouched by James Wamsley’s perversion.
Initially, due to the fact that was only 17 at the time of this act, James Allen Wamsley was booked into the Franklin Juvenile Justice Center. Shortly after, however, the decision was made to try him as an adult on first-degree child rape charges, a class “A” felony.
James Allen Wamsley pled guilty, and the aggravating factor of how vulnerable this child was at the time of the rape was added in with the plea.
The lawyers fought for a while over a second aggravating factor - how severe the injuries to the baby were - but the judge in James Wamsley’s case eventually ruled that James was also guilty of that aggravating factor as well.
The minimum sentence for child rape is 10 years, but due to the fact that this is a class “A” felony and that it has two aggravating factors…well, we could see James Allen Wamsley sentenced to life in prison.
Wouldn’t that be a shame?
The award for the most obvious statement of the day goes to JoDee Garretson, Executive Director of the Sexual Assault Response Center:
It’s certainly shocking, the degree of the violence and the fact that it was a baby because we don’t see that very often, and a baby, of course, is so helpless. I don’t believe someone is a healthy, well-adjusted individual and then one day snaps and rapes a baby.
Ms. Garretson, you’re absolutely correct.
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Lock him up for life, scum like this don’t deserve to breathe our fresh air
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HOW DO YOU EVEN GET TURNED ON BY A BABY ANYWAY? I NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT AND I GUESS THATS CUZ I AM NOT A PEDOPHILE… I HOPE HE ROTS… AND WHERE HE IS GOING, HE WILL BE ON THE RECIEVING END OF RAE FROM NOW ON…PS SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS.
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RAE = RAPE** SORRY
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What’s the matter James - your own hand reject you?
The only thing this perve deserves is a head stone.
He harmed the child rather badly and then just let the baby rot until the parents got home and go about like evrything was OK. This POS does not have a conscience. I wonder how many other people he has hurt - like forcing a date to take care of his needs and wants……. “You know a meal at the XXXX is worth at least a blow job”
I do have to ask - where was the father?
The mother had her concerns in the right place, but if this were my daughter - he artcile would read “while the baby was being airlifted by lifestar, the cororner pronounced the babysitter dead from …..”
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Oh jesus, I cannot even put anything in words.
Wow.
Kill him, period.
Death penalty for this crap, in my opinion. What worth can this boy ever be to society?
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You mean aggravating factor, not mitigating factor. A mitigating factor is something that would make his crime seem less bad, and give him a shorter sentence. Aggravating factors are the opposite.
Admin - Dear god. We had it right the first time we used the word, but somehow mitigating got in there the next few times. Corrected. Thank you.
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Two words: General population
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die ….just die…wouldn’t it be awsome if as soon as he raped the baby, he just keeled over and died of some horrendous tropical disease?
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Put this pig to death. Moms–never, never have a boy babysit for ANY kids. I would go so far as to say only let trusted Dads and trusted granddads watch your kids. It’s not worth it and leads to stuff like this. I am not sexist-but most of the kids I take care of at work that are injured while being cared for were being taken care of by dads. Dads who were taking a nap or on the computer or tinkering with a project. To one tract minded to mind the kids. I know so many dads who think it’s OK to sleep when they are responsible for watching kids. Result? Drownings, falls, poisonings, fire accidents etc. I have seen all these happen while dad was watching the kids. Sorry dads, if the shoe fits, shape up. If not, then you’re the exception
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EmergencyNurse - I agree with you wholeheartedly. I left my daughter with my father today, who is a great guy by all counts, and when I got home after a few hours gone and asked what she had eaten, he got this blank look on his face. I repeated myself, and he told me that she never told him she was hungry. It’s a -little- funny now, but I was NOT amused at the time. Poor girl was starving.
Anyway, I don’t give a good god damn what has happened to that kid in his life, he deserves a looong and slow death. Seriously. General population is too kind. He should be placed completely in the hands of parents who have lost children to shitheads like himself. Bump that, they don’t even have had to suffer loss. Just put him in the room with ANY parent. We’ll show him how it feels to be helpless.
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It’s sad to think that with sick fucks like this out there, you just really can’t trust the neighborhood kid to babysit or anyone for that matter. I hope this asshole gets what’s coming to him in prison. I’m glad they upped his treatment from juvenille to adult. People who do this kind of shit and commit disgusting crimes such as this one shouldn’t get any kind of preferential treatment because of thier age, even if they’re legally juveniles or if they are seniors. Some kind of murder charge should be thrown in if the poor baby doesn’t survive because of his injuries. I agree with the admin and hope the baby grows to be a normal boy like other boys. It breaks my heart when I read of stories where the young victims are so traumatized that where they once were happy and carefree, they grow to be angry and distant and thier childhoods and lives are ruined.
I don’t have kids but with stories like this in the news and on this site and other stories where physical and sexual abuse and even the death of the child have occurred it almost seems that it should be mandatory to use background checks/profile checks if you’re hiring somebody you don’t know that well to watch your kids.
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You guys are such losers. You don’t even know this guy at all. How dare you judge him? He was a friend of a friend that I almost knew at one time, and they said he couldn’t hurt a fly.
He supposedly said he liked to only rape girls- not little boys, so you guys have no right to judge him.
Until you are in his shoes, and have experienced raping some little boy while you are supposed to just be babysitting him, don’t you dare throw the first stone!!!! I don’t even know him, but even though he never babysat my 9month old brother, and therefore never raped him…..I know he is innocent!!!
Just saying. Since the nasty cockroaches haven’t slithered out of the walls to defend this POS, I thought I’d try my hand at it.
How’d I do?
c
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GloryBug, good try. But you used proper spelling and made no grammatical errors. Also, I would have thrown in something about the Lord. Thanks for making me laugh today!
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Glory-
You forgot to mention that he was a really great and responsible guy before all of this. Oh yeah, he probably had a bad childhood, too. And we all know that means he gets at least one “get out of jail free” card.
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Glory,
You also missed the words “accident” and “mistake” and how “bad” he feels and how “he wishes it was him who was in the hospital.”
I wish they’d just commit the people who said these things and treated them for Helsinki syndrome. It’s not a matter of freedom of speech, as there is no freedom that protects your right to be criminally insane.
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i’m speechless.
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ok funny thing…I was reading all of the post and waiting for someone to defend him then I stumbled upon Glory’s post. Go figure huh?
As far as this guy, I don’t understand the pleasure in raping an infant. I can understand the having sex with a virgin OF AGE AND CONSENT but not an infant. I really can’t understand it. I wonder if anyone will look into the other kids he sat for and see if anything else comes up.
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Glory -
you had my blood boiling - Great Job!
I love the way you brought in all POS favorite account in the Bible. Yes Jesus said to the crowd “He who hath no sin cast the first stone”, but after the crowd left Jesus said, “Go and sin no more”, but how many POS bother to read that part of the Bible? Few to none. When they come back, they just repeat the part of the account that they like - screw the whole truth.
Yes I am a sinner, so yes one can find in the Bible that I deserve hell every time I go to a porno site (Now that I am older I like the 30 year old sites). But then one can see that somewhere else Jesus died for me and I have a pass as long as I believe in Him…
And one can go on to further read that Jesus really hates people that hurt children.
So all you POS - either stop quoting your favorite verse or listen to a few of mine.
And because this is America, there are other such books that people hold sacred that may say pretty much the same thing
“(Insert the name of your prefered diety (ies)) HATES Child Fuckers”
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Fred- What’s sad is that when all those books you’re talking about were written, children weren’t really treated as consequential. When you die in your 30s-40s like people supposedly did back then (after the age of 600year old bible icons and such), I think the goal was to have as many as possible and cross your fingers some of them lived. No idea really, how well they treated the ones who did.
I am glad that your porn of choice doesn’t involve only chicks who look under 16. Still, it would be nice if every once in a while there was less of the MILF kind of stuff (which seems to appeal to the younger set) and more PILTFWAAMOA sites. (People I’d love to fuck who are approximately my own age).
But what do I know? I’m one of those weirdos who enjoys seeing naked bodies in general (who doesn’t?), but thinks it’s more fun to be doing than looking.
c
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Glory - now you’re makin my face hurt hah ha PILTFWAAMOA
I have to admit I’m fond of the MILF status, but it backs your statement of it being the the younger set which I fall into that category for sure.
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Dammit GloryBug, you forgot to mention how America fucked him up, and how he’d be painting fences for old ladies in Australia, or leading the charge in the fight against Cancer had he lived in Canada.
Seriously, step it up! :)
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Personally I don’t think he deserves the death penalty, that would be too quick. He needs a life in prison, one which will include a daily assrape and beatings, never enough to kill him of course just enough so it hurts even worse than the last time every time it happens. And of course after thats gone on for about 30 years, he should just be sent to solitary confinement where he can sit alone in a small small room with no light and minimal food
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Joe- Righteo! I forgot that living in America is actually the cause of any/all crime in America.
And dang, I keep forgetting every time I mess up or have a problem, that it’s not my fault, it’s because I don’t live in Australia or Canada, where I no doubt would be a more perfect person. Thanks for that reminder.
This POS breaks at least 2 rules of mine- (you don’t want to know how many rules I have… I’m kinda OCD)
1. If the baby aint cryin, don’t make the baby cry.
2. Don’t have any sexual contact with anyone who is crying. Especially if that sexual contact is going to be the source of the crying.
I mean, WTF? I cannot imagine what could be sexually attractive about an infant/toddler/child. The ear-splitting shriek of a kid in pain would make me lose my erection, if I had a penis, which I don’t.
This guy’s brain is whacked. He needs to stay in prison or a mental hospital for life- not just for punishment for what he did, but also because he had the capability to do it. Not someone you want out in the streets in 10 years.
Thanks, Reagan, for fucking up the mental health safety net. Mainstreaming the crazies has turned out really well, huh?
How much do you want to bet that no matter how well brought up, this baby in 17 years is going to be a mental case themselves? Think about it. It’s not something that is going to be able to be hidden. Having massive surgery as a baby for shit like that can’t be kept secret.
That’s the worst thing about unhinged people. They don’t just mess their and their families’ lives up, they permanently affect anyone they have contact with. And, not in a good way.
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Oh, and I wanted to add- I can’t see how the current fad of ‘brazilian’ grooming won’t result in even more blurring of the lines between who it’s healthy to have sex with, and who is too young.
Back when I was a teen, about a hundred years ago, nobody would have even been interested in having sex with someone who didn’t even have pubic hair yet. The emphasis was always on how ‘mature’ (developed) the people were. Now it seems the opposite is true- that it’s more of a score the younger the teen/child is.
Weird. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned masturbation? Is that just not popular anymore?
c
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GloryBug you kill me. hahahhahah. I love reading your posts. You hit the nail on the head every time!!! I vote for masturbation. Never hurt anybody I ever knew. hahahhaha. Leave the kiddies alone dammit. Work your hands out, make a few muscles.
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masturbation is the way to go really. you don’t have to worry about coyote ugly the next day; you don’t have to worry about the awkward “i love you” after the first date; you don’t have to worry about condoms or stds.
As far as the brazilian grooming technique, I don’t want the girl to look like a kid but at the same time I really don’t want to take a tree trimmer. I have to admit that some girls can pull off the whole clean shaven, but at the same time you know they’re not twelve.
ok now that I’ve gone on my non-sense tangent I’m going to submit and walk away.
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woah now I read this and was sickned. I mean how could he rape a little baby? Well if he goes to hell, make sure its the crappy hell, not the fun hell. That little weasle deserves no happyness, I mean he can strike again
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Don’t put this poor boy in prison. Give him a good talking to and then let him go free. Give him another chance to be good babysitter. Am I pissing anyone off? :)
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you’re too sarcastic to piss anyone off.
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hahahahha Louie. funny stuff. I didn’t get pissed of because I figured nobody in their right mind would say anything like that. hahahhah.
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This is a fun Web Site. People You’ll See In Hell. It is always entertaining to read about the exploits of these degenerates. We can laugh about these ones because they have been caught and are behind bars. The scary thing is the ones who are still out there. People who walk among us during the day and appear normal. They come out at night lurking in the shadows and do their evil murdurous deeds. :0 They could be your neighbors or even family members. Beware!!!
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THIS GUY IS INSANE!!
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hahhahaha i love you glorybug
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You have to be REALLY messed up to do such a thing; But at 17 you have to wonder is it really his fault he’s so… troubled? There are other factors at rest here. I think he should get punishment as well as help. After all he’s still a child- even though he did a horrible sensless thing.
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“I think he should get punishment as well as help.”
I’ll bite. What kind of help can be given to someone that not only molests babies, but causes physical injuries from raping babies?
Tell them not to do it? That it’s bad? Wrong? I’m pretty sure this POS knew all that and did it anyway.
I’d be interested in what kind of real help would work in this case. I’d prefer he spend his life in jail.
c
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When I was a little kid, the only people allowed to watch me if my parents were gone for the evening were my older sister or grandparents…my mom’s philosophy was that if it’s outside the fam, you really don’t know who you’re entrusting w/your kids (and given the stories of abusive nannies, etc. that started making the news in the mid-90s, who’s to say she was wrong?).
As for punishment, I think Wamsley should do life w/o parole…given the status of child molesters in the prison food chain, I think it’s safe to say he’ll be getting a taste of his own medicine…and how!
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http://www.tri-cityherald.com/901/story/105410.html
“James Allen Wamsley apologized and told a Benton County Superior Court judge on Friday that he accepted responsibility for raping a 9-month-old boy he was baby-sitting.
Then Judge Robert Swisher sentenced the Richland teen to spend at least 131/2 years in prison.
Wamsley, 17, pleaded guilty in September to first-degree child rape. According to court documents, he was looking after the baby and a 3-year-old for about nine hours on May 28 when he sexually assaulted the infant.
When the infant’s mother, Tabitha McBean, returned home, she saw blood in the baby’s diaper and took him to Kadlec Medical Center in Richland. Later, the infant was transferred to a Spokane hospital for surgery.
Benton County Superior Court Judge Robert Swisher said the case is the “type you lose sleep over.”
The victim was “the most vulnerable of humans,” he said. “And a child himself is charged with a hideous crime.”
Wamsley remained seated and stoic, eyes dropped, as a tearful McBean talked about the impact the crime has had on her family.
“I trusted him like my brother — and so did my kids,” she said. “It hurts to see him go away, but he has to pay. I’m never going to be the same and neither will my son.”
Wamsley’s mother, Teresa Moen, traveled from her home in southwest Montana to attend the sentencing. She also addressed Swisher, but made no excuses for her son’s behavior.
“I know what James has done and I wish it never would have happened,” Moen said. “I just hope he gets the help he needs and I hope things can get better for him. We all love him.”
As Moen returned to her seat, she leaned down to hug McBean and kissed her on the cheek.
After the hearing, McBean said she didn’t hold any grudge against Wamsley’s family and still considers Moen a friend.
But the events have taken an emotional toll on the young mother. “I’ve been fired from two jobs,” she said. “I don’t get along as well with people.”
McBean said it’s harder for her to trust people. She’s also seen differences in how her son, now 18 months old, behaves. He’s fine physically but she worries if he has healed emotionally.
“He’s very clingy and has nightmares,” she said.
She’s not the only concerned mother.
Moen, who said she drove McBean and her baby to the hospital after the incident, also worries about her son, who will be 31 years old before a state board considers giving him freedom.
She said her son is bipolar, and she wants him to get counseling and proper medication so he might someday have a normal life.
“He was a great wrestler, an avid skateboarder and loved riding bikes,” she said.
Wamsley’s attorney, Shelley Ajax, told Swisher the teen has been very remorseful and has asked for help.
“His history includes sexual abuse,” Ajax said. “He’s not telling the court that’s why he did this. He’s been confused and oftentimes emotional.”
Swisher said although the standard range for the offense is 93 months to 123 months, he was imposing an exceptional 162-month sentence requested by Deputy Prosecutor Terry Bloor.
“The facts just warrant it,” Swisher said.
Swisher also recommended sexual offender treatment for Wamsley and signed an order prohibiting him from having any contact with the victim for the rest of his life.
Bloor said Wamsley will be in jail for at least 131/2 years, but that could be extended to life if the sentencing review committee chooses.
McBean said friends of the family have set up an account at Banner Bank for donations for her son. Donations can be made to the “9-month-old victim” fund at any Banner Bank.”
….Considering how much the general prison population loves child rapists, I’m sure he’ll have a wonderful time in prison.
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Chris reply on July 5, 2008:
“James Allen Wamsley apologized and told a Benton County Superior Court judge on Friday that he accepted responsibility for raping a 9-month-old boy he was baby-sitting.
Then Judge Robert Swisher sentenced the Richland teen to spend at least 131/2 years in prison.
Wamsley, 17, pleaded guilty in September to first-degree child rape. According to court documents, he was looking after the baby and a 3-year-old for about nine hours on May 28 when he sexually assaulted the infant.
When the infant’s mother, Tabitha McBean, returned home, she saw blood in the baby’s diaper and took him to Kadlec Medical Center in Richland. Later, the infant was transferred to a Spokane hospital for surgery.
Benton County Superior Court Judge Robert Swisher said the case is the “type you lose sleep over.”
The victim was “the most vulnerable of humans,” he said. “And a child himself is charged with a hideous crime.”
Wamsley remained seated and stoic, eyes dropped, as a tearful McBean talked about the impact the crime has had on her family.
“I trusted him like my brother — and so did my kids,” she said. “It hurts to see him go away, but he has to pay. I’m never going to be the same and neither will my son.”
Wamsley’s mother, Teresa Moen, traveled from her home in southwest Montana to attend the sentencing. She also addressed Swisher, but made no excuses for her son’s behavior.
“I know what James has done and I wish it never would have happened,” Moen said. “I just hope he gets the help he needs and I hope things can get better for him. We all love him.”
As Moen returned to her seat, she leaned down to hug McBean and kissed her on the cheek.
After the hearing, McBean said she didn’t hold any grudge against Wamsley’s family and still considers Moen a friend.
But the events have taken an emotional toll on the young mother. “I’ve been fired from two jobs,” she said. “I don’t get along as well with people.”
McBean said it’s harder for her to trust people. She’s also seen differences in how her son, now 18 months old, behaves. He’s fine physically but she worries if he has healed emotionally.
“He’s very clingy and has nightmares,” she said.
She’s not the only concerned mother.
Moen, who said she drove McBean and her baby to the hospital after the incident, also worries about her son, who will be 31 years old before a state board considers giving him freedom.
She said her son is bipolar, and she wants him to get counseling and proper medication so he might someday have a normal life.
“He was a great wrestler, an avid skateboarder and loved riding bikes,” she said.
Wamsley’s attorney, Shelley Ajax, told Swisher the teen has been very remorseful and has asked for help.
“His history includes sexual abuse,” Ajax said. “He’s not telling the court that’s why he did this. He’s been confused and oftentimes emotional.”
Swisher said although the standard range for the offense is 93 months to 123 months, he was imposing an exceptional 162-month sentence requested by Deputy Prosecutor Terry Bloor.
“The facts just warrant it,” Swisher said.
Swisher also recommended sexual offender treatment for Wamsley and signed an order prohibiting him from having any contact with the victim for the rest of his life.
Bloor said Wamsley will be in jail for at least 131/2 years, but that could be extended to life if the sentencing review committee chooses.
McBean said friends of the family have set up an account at Banner Bank for donations for her son. Donations can be made to the “9-month-old victim” fund at any Banner Bank.”
….Considering how much the general prison population loves child rapists, I’m sure he’ll have a wonderful time in prison.
Right lets say a few things
just because James is fucked up dosent mean his whole familys fucked up. I mean it seems his mam was a very responsilble and nice lady.
Also he can appoglise as much as he wants but no way in hell is he gonna get anything from it.
Well done James wamsley you RUINED a young lads life before it even reached kindergarden.
James’s mam, well done for not making excuses up
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I heard about this like and he sounds fucked up
Glorybug, he tries to rape girls you say? thats still fucked up
serously hope he gets a good kicking
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