A father who shot dead his daughter’s sex attacker has tolerated a 40-year prison term – from testifying in court to save her, it’s reported.
Jay Maynor, 43, gunned down Raymond Earl Brooks in 2014 – a decade after the 59-year old convicted child molester was released from jail.
This week, he acknowledged so his daughter, Julia Maynor, would not have to testify killing Brooks included in a plea deal, according to local media.
Ms Maynor, now a 24-year-old mum of three, was mistreated by Brooks – her adopted maternal grandad – for several years until she was eight years old.
Discussing after her dad was sentenced to 40 years behind bars on Monday, she said he was an ‘astonishing daddy’ who’d been ‘protecting’ her.
She told AL.com : “Essentially he took it [the plea deal] so that I did not have to relive the molestation and also be on the stand in front of a group of folks talking about and bringing back memories of the molestation.”
She included: “My daddy was shielding me, like a dad should do. He’s an amazing dad — actually the greatest.
Ms Maynor bravely waived her right to anonymity as a sex abuse victim after the plea deal was taken by Maynor at a court in Alabama, US.
She said her dad had gunned Brooks in Cullman County down after she had said something ‘out of anger’ about the maltreatment on June 8, 2014.
At that time, Brooks had been outside of prison for 10 years after serving only 27 months of a five-year term for sexually abusing Ms Maynor.
The convict had pleaded guilty to the offense in 2002, Inside Edition reports.
On the day of the fatal shooting, Maynor also allegedly fired a number of rounds at a man in a nearby store.
The guy – who hasn’t been identified – had supposedly been mistreating another woman, Ms Maynor said. On the other hand, the rounds did not hit anyone.
Maynor was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted murder – relating to the store shooting – in addition to 20 years for Brooks’s homicide.
Ms Maynor said her dad had accepted the term to save her from having to ‘relive’ the molestation, which continues to influence her.
In a interview with WVTM-13 , the mum, who has three young kids, said: “I relive it every single day. I struggle to escape bed each day.”
She added of Brooks: “I can still remember his odor, which can be awful to me.”
