Father who shot dead his daughter's sexual abuser is sentenced to 40 years in jail after pleading guilty to save her from testifying
- Jay Maynor sentenced to 40 years for murdering his daughter's sex abuser
- Raymond Earl Brooks, 59, was shot dead in Alabama in June 2014
- He pleaded guilty in 2002 to sexually abusing Julia Maynor several times
- Brooks molested her constantly from the age of four until she was eight
- Pleaded guilty to the crimes in 2002, and served 27 months behind bars
- Ms Maynor said her father accepted sentence so she didn't have to testify
- 'My father was protecting me, like a father should do,' she said
Jay Maynor, 43, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Alabama on Monday after pleading guilty to shooting dead 59-year-old Raymond Earl Brooks in June 2014
An Alabama man who murdered his daughter's sexual abuser has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Jay Maynor, 43, pleaded guilty to shooting and killing 59-year-old Raymond Earl Brooks in June 2014 during a court hearing in Cullman County on Monday.
He took a plea deal in the slaying so his daughter Julia, who Brooks molested from the age of four, wouldn't have to testify during a trial.
Julia, now a 24-year-old mother of three, was sexually abused several times from when she was a toddler until she was nine.
Brooks, her adopted maternal grandfather, pleaded guilty in 2002 to the crimes and served 27 months of a five-year sentence. He also paid restitution.
Ten years after he was freed, Maynor exacted his revenge and gunned Brooks down.
Brooks adopted Julia's mother at birth, and the woman knew him as her father until she was 21, five years after Julia was born.
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Maynor (top circled) took a plea deal in the slaying so his daughter Julia (left), who Brooks molested from the age of four, wouldn't have to testify during a trial
The shooting, Ms Maynor said, was prompted by something she said to her father about the abuse.
On the way to Brooks' home, Maynor also fired his gun into a convenience store when he spotted a man who had been dating his stepdaughter and allegedly abused her.
The man was able to hide and was unharmed. Ms Maynor's father was sentenced to 20 years for attempted murder in that particular shooting.
She waived her right to anonymity as a victim of sex crimes following her father's sentencing.
Julia Maynor, now 24, was sexually abused several times between the ages of four and nine by Brooks - who was her adopted maternal grandfather
Raymond Earl Brooks, 59, was murdered in 2014 by the father of a girl he pleaded guilty to sexually abusing when she was in elementary school
She told Al.com that her father accepted the sentence so she was spared from having to testify at trial and relive the sexual abuse.
Maynor says she remember's Brooks' smell and still suffers the devastating impact of his constant abuse
'My father was protecting me, like a father should do. He is an amazing father - actually the best. He loves us so much,' she said.
'I've tried counseling and that didn't work and it's still here today. I relive it every day. I struggle to get out of bed in the morning,' she said.
She claims the sentence handed down to her father is unfair.
'(Brooks) took my innocence away and only served like 18 months, and now I suffer daily from what Raymond did to me,' she said.
In a separate interview with WVTM13, she said she only vaguely remembers the abuse, but it still has a devastating impact to this day.
'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.
'Me and my husband are now going through a divorce because of it. I have completely pushed him out of my life.
'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.'
Maynor was found guilty of driving to Brooks' house in Alabama in June 2014 and shooting him
The shooting, Ms Maynor said, was prompted by something she said to her father (pictured left) about the abuse
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