UPDATE: James Allen Wamsley
RICHLAND TEEN GETS AT LEAST 13 YEARS FOR RAPING INFANT
by Mary Hopkins – Tri-City Herald (Washington State)
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 13 and a half 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 13 and a half 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.
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Oh, he apologized? Well, that makes it all better.
I hope his sentence gets extended to life. Even your garden-variety pedophile/sexual predator won’t stoop to raping infants. This is literally the lowest of the low.
Good for him that he’s an avid wrestler. He’s gonna need that skill. Once word gets out in prison… he won’t live to be 20.
Why, why, why do these mothers leave their children alone with these men. Ignorant idiots the mothers are! The guys should be executed.
Are you seriously blaming the mother for this? She had the teenage son of a family friend babysit her kids, which is something that most parents do from time to time. It’s not like she hired some random guy off the street or left the kid with a known crackhead. Are we all supposed to go through life fearing everyone around us?
The only person to blame is the psycho who raped the infant. The mother doesn’t deserve to be called “stupid” and “ignorant” for daring to trust another human being.
I disagree. If you read through the articles on Phsih…the common theme in most of them are mothers that leave their children to be babysat by men who in turn abuse the children in some horrific way….ususally its their trailer trash boyfriends who are really molesters in disguise, just waiting for the chance to rape or beat the child in her absence. I would never let a man babysit my child
(I have a 12 month old saughter) never. I realize something bad could happen with a 16 year old girl babysitting, but come on lets face it, you cetainly reduce your chances. I of course blame the guy who did the raping in this article…but I am so sick of reading article after article after article about these stupid mothers.
I disagree… ANYONE can do harm to a child… Male or Female. Maybe not all sexual but heinous nonetheless. It’s hard to trust anyone these days but unfortunately no one knows what lies beneath these evil minded people.
My question is that if the scum’s mom knew he was bipolar why would she even suggest that he is capable of babysitting a small child. And before you jump down my throat, I have nothing against bipolar people, I just wouldn’t let anyone with a history of mental illness babysit my child.
Well Miss,Don’t judge those “mentally ill” people when it comes to the safety of your child, if you look at some of the cases in which children are harmed, half of them are “completely normal folk”. I’m Bipolar, and I take care of Children Very well, I have never so much as raised my voice to a child I am baby sitting if they misbehave I send them to the corner and inform them their parents will be told they have broken the rules. I often baby sit several children at a time, I also will tidy the house if it is not up to par so the children I baby sit do not trip on a pile of dirty laundry and bust their faces on the floor, or sprain an ankle, or god knows what else could happen to a kid in a messy home. I am also not on medication. I have gone through therapy for my “ILLNESS” as you call it we go through highs and lows, just like the rest of Humanity, just more severely but it can be managed with will power and treatment. I’m not different from any other person, nor are most Bipolar Men and Women, Don’t let one emotional roller coaster of a teenager, Make the lot of us look bad.
castration.. AS IN REMOVAL OF HIS PENIS. PERIOD. THE END.
I like how you get right to the point.
I’m glad to see his mother’s not defending him. I do wish he’d gotten more than 13 years, though.
What length of time is 131/2 years in prison? Is that 13 and a half years?
Why the hell is James wearing a bra???
James Whamsley’s mother seems to have minimized what her son did. I don’t feel at all sorry for the time he’s getting in jail. What a sicko!
You have a point Kathy – that 13 and a half didn’t translate well into Wordpress, did it? Lemme fix that.
Jimbo is wearing a bra for reasons only he knows.
Being bipolar myself, I categorically deny cutting this idiot any slack for his “mental” disorder. Freaks like this give being crazy a bad name. Let me be the first to encourage Jimmy to enact another feature of being bipolar, namely, the statistically enhanced probability for committing suicide. Get to it, James!
problem with that is that unless you let him bleed out he will re- offend, using other implements instead of his penis, that type of brutality is not about the sex as we all know, it is about the power. I wish castration was a good option but it is not the thoughts are still there…I just do not understand how ANYONE can look at a baby and think those thoughts. God, I really have a love\hate relationship with this site! I hope that perv. never gets out! There is no rehabilitating those scum EVER!!!!!
Sorry I was replying to Hazzard and my computer did not comply…
While I agree with just about everything you said there is one thing I don’t.
You said, ” I wish castration was a good option but it is not the thoughts are still there” The way I understood biology is the fact that sexual urges tend to come from the area that would get removed during the castration. Remove it and sexual thoughts and urges go away. Was I wrong or just partly right?
You are right about castration and normal sexual urges.
Rape is not about sex, or hornyness, or any of those things. It’s about violence and power. Remove the penis of someone who is a rapist and you may only force them to be more creative.
I read somewhere, again I don’t have a link, about a man who was castrated and continued to rape women. He used foreign objects – chair legs, baseball bats, etc. instead. Many rapists don’t achieve conventional orgasm but feel just as satisfied because they fed their violent urges.
A few years back I was watching Dateline, or 20/20 or some damn show..around the time bleeding hearts were screaming off the roof tops about how chemical castration was a great help in re- habbing pervs., they interviewed some sex offender and he said that it would not work because the thoughts would still be there in his head. They use this in parts of Europe, but it did not catch on here…because it really is not a deterrent. : )
Max, I think we know the reason to prepare himself for being someones bitch in the pen!!
Wow. Haven’t been on in a while, but at least this is some decent news to come back to. Decent because at least he got more than 18 months. I am still looking forward to the day we start knifing these assholes down the day they are convicted.
Yes, I also have a love/hate relationship with this site. it makes me so angry i can’t even move, but i have to read on. It makes me feel better to read what everyone else has posted and its nice to see how strongly people feel about pieces of shit like this. This kid should have his dick ripped off and then have his ass raped over and over again so he knows how it feels. And on a fucking baby? Really? If i could get my hands on this kid for 10 minutes, so help him God.
“She said her son is bipolar, and she wants him to get counseling and proper medication so he might someday have a normal life.”
Uh, lady…I (almost) hate to break it to ya, but being “bipolar” doesn’t even come close to explaining why he did what he did, it doesn’t even come close to being anything but a really lame excuse. Bipolar is drastic mood swings, and raping infants is…not bipolar. It’s something else entirely. We have a word for that, it’s “evil”. Counseling and medication isn’t going to fix what’s wrong with your son. He’s never, ever going to have a normal life. You have to wonder if he was ever “normal” at all. If he’s capable of raping a baby at 17, before he was even old enough to buy a pack of cigarettes, what’s he going to be like at 31? He’ll be an ex-con who’s spent half his life in prison doing HARD time, he’ll have to register as a sex offender everywhere he goes for the rest of his life, he’ll have an extremely difficult time finding a job and a place to live, he’ll have to deal with always being shunned and hated (and rightly so!) on top of everything else too.
How is that supposed to even remotely be considered “normal”?
This is just one example of why I support capital punishment and would like to see it become the penalty for child rape and molestation. People who do things like this will always be a danger to kids as long as they live.
Uh, and yeah, ‘Mom’… the time to get him help, counseling and proper medication was BEFORE the whole baby-raping incident.
The whole hoping that someday he’ll have a ‘normal life’ is not an option anymore.
And, to be honest, I sure don’t want him getting out of prison in his 30s and attempting to have a ‘normal’ life anywhere near children.
Epic FAIL.
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This kid should be curb-stomped for what he did!
And I hope he brought that pretty red bra to prison with him because he will need it as a prison bitch! He will be human currency there!
Why do we waste time and money “rehabilitating” these types?” If you look at a child or baby and see a sexual object you are wired WRONG and nothing short of a bullet to the head will change your thinking…Can anyone else see a story about 14 years from now when he gets out about him stalking, raping, killing more kids? Sadly..I don’t have to be psychic to see this in his future
Here,Here!!!
Reading this I just ..can’t even imagine….how it all happened….the poor baby…it just really sucks that there are people out there like that…..It’s scary out there….I don’t even know if I ever want kids because I am afraid someone will harm them.
Seriously? Only 13 years for this shit? I don’t know which is worst, the fact that this kid is sick enough to rape a baby, or the fact that the court is stupid enough to only give him 13 years. If this isnt bad enough to deserve life in jail/death, then I really don’t know what is.
I hope they never let this kid out, that or someone smashes his fuckin face in, in the pen. If this fucker does get out I wouldn’t be shocked if we have another Albert Fish on our hands.
That’s the sad thing about child abuse: unless the abused children get help, they are likely to act out by repeating what was done to them. These crimes rarely appear out of nowhere. The abuser is almost always repeating abuse that was inflicted on them.
What I don’t understand is Moen says that she wants her son to get help and medication. Wamsley’s crime suggests that his own abuse was pretty horrific. Why does it take her son raping a 9-month old infant for her to “hope” that her son gets treatment and medication? That’s fucked up. Why wasn’t he already in therapy, getting help and medication?
agree to a point….well a small point ….I was abused, I haven’t abused anyone in my 41 years, I was also mentally and physically hit sometimes for no reason, I am the way I am today due to choices…I chose not to hit/abuse anyone. I chose CHOSE not to take the easy way out and use the excuse that ‘oh it happened to me so that gives me every right’…That is the one thing that I hate with the assholes who use this excuse when they get to court…it’s a fucking cop out…Life is all about choices….
Yeah, I too was abused and I NEVER have wanted to have sex with an infant or a child. I was abused in the ’60’s when you did not talk about abuse. I do not know stats. but I really believe that if children are likely top “act out” their abuse the world would be way more F”uped than it is…1 in 3 girls are sexually abused and 1 in 5 boys.
I agree with justjaney and deedeebug. I too was sexually abused for a few years by the hands of my own father. I have NEVER even thought about abusing a child, let alone and infant! I hate these cop out excuses and that’s just what they are, nothing but excuses.
To justjaney, deedeebug95, and tweety: I am so sorry that each of you ever had to endure abuse at the hands of another. It breaks my heart to hear stories about people who have been victims of abuse. I will keep you all in my thoughts and I hope that you all are able to heal from the trauma that you have endured.
To FrenchFry25: I am a former victim of child abuse and sexual abuse. I was raped for the first time at the age of 3 by my 14 year old cousin. This particular cousin raped me from the age of 3 until I was 18 years old. My grandfather and uncle both “touched/molested” me many times, but neither actually raped me. At 16, I was raped by a guy I had dated and broke up with. He broke into my house, raped me, and beat the hell out of me. I became pregnant with twins that I wound up miscarrying because the same guy raped and beat me again. At 22, I was pregnant with twins again by my husband. My husband was out of town one night and my neighbor’s brother broke into my house. We fought, he beat me and burned me, but I managed to get away. He finally caught me in my neighbor’s driveway and committed his violation with a broken bottle. From this, I lost my son, but they were able to save my daughter. Also, I can never have children because of the damage that was done from this incident. I worked for many years as a paralegal and legal assistant for sex crime cases. I learned a lot of information from “the so-called experts.” There are many rapists and child abusers that were abused themselves, but these individuals are fully aware of what they are doing when they violate others. They do realize that they are inflicting the same abuse and violence upon an innocent victim in the same fashion that was previously done to them. Therefore, they are making a choice to commit a crime when the abuse others. People that are former victims of abuse that choose to violate others can not use their own former abuse as a justifiable reason of why they choose to abuse innocent victims. They are even more accountable in my book because they are aware of the pain and horror that they are perpetuating upon their victim because they also experienced that same pain and horror previously. I had to deal with many rapists and offenders in my previous line of work and everyone of them always had an excuse for their behavior. The majority were repeat offenders that you knew were going to reoffend as soon as they got the chance. Sex offenders are people that make a decision to engage in inappropriate behavior even though they know that they are violating the law. They do not care about the law or their victims…..the only thing they care about is fulfilling their own sick desires and fantasies.
I think that James Allen Wamsley chose to rape the 9 month old baby in his care because he didn’t think his victim would remember the abuse or be able to tell someone what had happened. He knew that the 3 year old was old enough to remember the incident and know that this was not normal behavior, therefore he chose the victim that he thought he could get away with violating. His mother needs to realize that her son is never going to live a normal life and that his biopolar disorder had nothing to do with this situation. I am sure that the majority of people that have bipolar disorder would find it offensive that this condition is even being mentioned as a possible reason for Wamsley committing this crime. There are many people that have mental disorders and that are former victims of child abuse that live completely normal lives, but these people make the choice not to engage in violating others and committing criminal acts. There is no justifiable reason for rape or abuse. When offenders make claims that they were victims of abuse or they have mental disorders, they are looking for ways to minimize their own responsibility for their actions and choices. Thirteen and one-half years is a rather light sentence for the crime that Wamsley committed. Mr. Wamsley is going to spend the next 13.5 years sitting in protective custody because he can’t walk the mainline because he would be killed. I have no sympathy for James Allen Wamsley because he knew exactly what he was doing to that poor infant. He fully deserves anything that happens to him at this point and probably more!
To Ms. Tabitha McBean: I am so sorry that your baby boy had to go through this abuse. I will keep you and both of your sons in my thoughts. I hope that your son will be able to heal from this situation and have a wonderful life. My heart shatters into a million pieces everytime I think about your son and what he endured. Again, my thoughts are with you and your sons.
My thoughts also go out to you corset lass, I don’t mean to trivialise it but you sound like your living your life everyday with the knowledge that your a survivor and kudos to you for that
Jane
Bless your heart, abuse at the hands of family (IMO) is so much more scarring,you must have a backbone of steel for keeping your life on track and living a healthy positive life!! What a wonderful mentor you would be for children of abuse, be proud of yourself,I’m proud of you!!
I am sure that he’ll get therapy – Bubba will gladly give this POS “Victim Sympathy Therapy”… as Bubba’s bitch, Jimbo will have his orfaces strtched beyond their current max’s
The thing that really scares me is the fact that he is only a few years older than my daughter – will this fuck actually try to befreind her when she has children of her own?
This POS needs to be locked in the basement of an asylum – preferably an abandoned one and then forgotten about.
Ok, so translation for this article is: “EXTRA! EXTRA! TO ALL PARENTS:
Sorry didn’t get to finish…As I was saying “In about 13 1/2 years, keep your kids locked away and DO NOT let them out of the house, because they will be releasing a pedophile/rapist from prison, and he will rape your infants!!” Thanks for the warning! Pedophiles cannot be rehabilitated. How many more of these kids have to be sexually assaulted before these morons get that?
taking a rough guess nicole, as horrible as it may sound, probably thousands more….which just kills an average person like me…I mean why can’t they just cut their fucking dicks of and put it around their necks? Instead of the “sex offender register crap” I’m guessing this would work way better…yes??? :)
I like that. Perhaps sewing their penises onto their foreheads as a way to identify them as sex offenders. It kills me too-as a mom, and just as a person. I try so hard to protect my babies against people like the ones I read about on this site. I just wish that somebody would protect these kids, you know? I know it’s never possible to fully protect someone, but it’s just so frustrating. I just want someone to give a damn that this keeps happening (someone other than us I mean).
Me too Nicole, I’ll just use a staple gun instead of the glue :)
Honestly, most of these perverts are invited into the homes of the victims and there in lies the problem.
Oh yah! Janey, that’s a great idea!
“Oh, I’m sorry. I can’t hire you. You’re a dickneck.” SO EASY TO SPOT!
Hahahahaha Becky! Dickneck–that’s awesome.
Asshat. He will get a lot of wrestling practice in prison. Maybe he will take his bra with him.
I hope this POS ends up spending the rest of his life in prison. I have a feeling if he doesn’t, he WILL offend again.
In an earlier post I mentioned why don’t they just cut their dicks of….then they won’t re-offend :)
Well janey then they will just beat the shit out of thier victims and not rape them.
It’s about power and not about sex.
Death is the only 100% way to make sure they never offend again. But cutting thier dick off with a rusty dull paring knife would show them they really fucked up.
I so like the way you think mulch, always puts a smile on my face…lol..and your right my remark about cutting of their dicks was a rant, as it isnt just about the sex like you said, it’s about the power. Death works for me also :) The dull paring knife doesnt sound painful enough…I know you can do better …lol
Mulch is the PYSIH expert on new and improved punishments for members of our All-Star team. He has a sadistic streak that we are all very proud of. We would like very much if he and VCBecky were to have a love child together – the kid would make everyone forget who the Marquis de Sade was, I tell you what. LOL.
Have you ever tried to butcher an animal wiht a paring knife? Not an easy task. You have to apply pressure but not too much or the blade will break. Not enough and you won’t get anywhere. You have to slowly saw your way through the meat, tendons to seporate the joints.
Now think about that for a second. then picture a live person losing thier leg at the hip. OH and always ALWAYS have a bucket of amonia handy. We don’t want the UN to call us cruel now do we? We have to keep all wound clean and germ free.
@Max I am humbeled. At the present I am single. No idea why… :-)
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BAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, mercy!
See mulch, I knew you would make my day :)
lol Mulch, pure genius. I love the way you think! How about after cutting of some limbs, we shove some rusty barb wire through their pee holes? I think that would definitely keep them from re-offending.
Interesting concept. But getting the wire “up thar” would prove to be too much work. How about we take a very thin glass tube and shove it up his penis? When it’s all the way in we tap the penis shattering the glass. I have heard it can really kill a good mood.
Cutting off limbs is also very hard and very dirty work. I am by nature a lazy person and I do not like to get dirty.
I’ll do some thunking…
Hahaha That’s awesome. Hey the glass tube being shattered through the penis is good enough for me. Let them keep their limbs.
Hey everybody……..I think I figured out the reason that James has on the red bra in the picture! He was practicing for his upcoming role as the bitch of the cell block. But someone should really tell him that red is not the right color for him. You know they should have made it part of his sentencing guidelines that he had to wear that damn bra upon his entrance into prison. I can see all those hard core gang bangers licking their chops like hungry wolves just waiting to attack their evening meal. Now that would be a small bit of poetic justice!
If you ignore the fact that he fucked a baby, he’s kinda cute in a soft, girlie sorta way. They’re gonna have sooo much fun with him!
I wonder if he’s just messing around with that bra, or if he is trying to keep his bitch-tits nice and firm… I think it’s too late for me to be posting on this website.
well, whatever cuteness people can determine he has is gonna be gone when they knock out his teeth so he wont bite.
this is so disgusting…i’m trembling while reading what this jerk did to the baby..he’ll have 3 square meals,medical care,someone else will clean his cell,library,tv,phone calls…what will the baby have? he’ll have a mother who will work herself half to death to provide shelter,food,clothes,medical care….the child is victimized once again.i pray this baby will get good medical ,psychological care & lots & lots of love & encouragement…i know he is in my prayers… as for the jerk who seems to like the color red…good luck buddy!! if you think prison is hell…wait till you pass on!!! God help you.
Seriously.. an infant!!? This is disgusting. This is similar to the “story of Hollie and Brian Beston raping and filming a 4yr old.”
Recently I came across a website called “Anontalk.com It is basically a haven for pedophiles. They are posting links to child porn and engaging in discussion about their criminal acts against children.” Anyone who hates pedophiles should report this site to Interpol and the Swedish government.
Done. As well to Amnisty International, the EU commission aginst child abuse, the FBI and my local police. Thanks for the heads up!
Yes, I meant to reply myself – I checked out Anontalk myself, and it’s as bad as Crimes & Justice says it is. It’s not a Pedo site persay, but an anonymous message board. The problem is the baby rapers that use it as a place to exchange links and other information. Everyone should be making LE aware of Anontalk, if not to bust the guys who run it (although they may not be complicit in the crimes being committed there), but as a way to gather intelligence about pedophiles.
I apologize? Ok i am sorry he’s not dead yet.
Every time I read this guys name, I think ” WAAAAAAAAAAAmsley” in a really whiney voice. Then I see the photo of him in that red bra, and start giggling to myself. I just had to share. You’re welcome.
this child was sick a long time…
Sick? Sick….no. Batshit crazy and perverted? YES.
I hope he gets put into a cell with BUBBA and gets raped daily for the rest of his natural life then rots in hell…where he belongs.
Why is he dressed like that? Hope he dresses like that in prison. Scum like it are bottom of the prison hierarchy.
This is the most horrible thing I have ever heard, I dont even have any words for this, cut his dick off!