Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Judge to Vukovich: "Vigilantism is not something that we accept in America"



This scumbag got 23 years for his 3 attacks.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2018/02/26/anchorage-man-who-attacked-sex-offenders-sentenced-to-23-years-in-prison/

Anchorage man who attacked sex offenders sentenced to 23 years in prison
Author: Tegan Hanlon  clock Updated: 12 hours ago  calendar Published 17 hours ago


At an Anchorage Superior Court hearing for Jason Vukovich, who was sentenced Monday for attacking three registered sex offenders, his older brother Joel Fulton said that despite counseling, he has not yet recovered from what the two men experienced as children.

"I'm never going to get better — never," said Fulton, who has a successful career in cybersecurity in California.

At the two-day hearing that started Friday, Vukovich's lawyer, Ember Tilton, argued for a more lenient sentence for his 42-year-old client, who attacked three men in June 2016, saying to a victim he was an "avenging angel" for abused children. Tilton said Vukovich continues to suffer through mental and emotional turmoil resulting from a childhood of physical and sexual abuse.

But the prosecutor, Patrick McKay, argued that there was no excuse for Vukovich to target and attack three strangers, beating one man so badly with a hammer that he fractured his skull and knocked him unconscious.

"We're lucky we're not dealing with a murder charge," Assistant District Attorney Patrick McKay told the judge. "People do not get to take the law into their own hands just because they don't like a particular group of people or a particular person."

As part of a plea deal, Vukovich had previously agreed to plead guilty to first-degree attempted assault and a consolidated count of first-degree robbery. In turn, prosecutors agreed to dismiss more than a dozen other charges against him stemming from the attacks.

Early Monday afternoon, Superior Court Judge Erin Marston handed down his sentence to Vukovich: 25 years in prison, five years fewer than the maximum. He also sentenced Vukovich to five years' probation.

"Vigilantism is not something that we accept in America," he told Vukovich. "It's not something that we accept in this community and it is just simply something that will not be tolerated."

The men Vukovich singled out and attacked were complying with the law, Marston said. They had gone through the court system, received their sentences and put their names on Alaska's public sex offender registry, where Vukovich found their addresses.

"It was not the purpose of the registry to allow people to do their own brand of justice," Marston told Vukovich. "The purpose of the registry was to keep the community safe."

McKay said that in the summer of 2016, Vukovich, recently released from jail, carried a notebook with a list of nine names that he planned to target. Vukovich said he collected the names from acquaintances. He said they told him the people were "pedophiles."

Over five days in June, Vukovich entered the homes of three of the men, uninvited. He hit two of them with his fists, and another man with a hammer. The attack left that victim with a lasting traumatic brain injury. It's hard for him to string words into sentences. He lost his job. He can't pay his rent.

"My life is changed forever," he told the judge.

McKay said Vukovich also stole from the three men he attacked.

On Monday, Vukovich apologized.

"I realize now that I had no business assaulting these individuals or taking the law into my own hands," he said. "I should have sought mental health counseling before I exploded."

Vukovich has cycled into and out of jail for decades.

As a child, he said, he and his siblings were abused by his adoptive father, Larry Lee Fulton.

"He was a pretty terrible person in general," Vukovich told the judge. "He liked to administer beatings with various implements — belts, eventually a two-by-four that he had custom-made — and he used to like to disrupt the night by coming in to sexually assault (me)."

Fulton was found guilty of second-degree abuse of a minor and in 1989 received a three-year suspended sentence — meaning he didn't have to serve any active time in a prison cell.

Vukovich's older brother, Joel Fulton, eventually ran away from home and later he did the same.

Their paths diverged.

Fulton went to college and later got a PhD. He lives in California with his family, where he said he has good job as the chief information security officer at a data analytics software company. He said he still receives counseling to deal with the trauma of being physically and sexually abused as a child.

Vukovich turned to drugs and crime.

Vukovich told the judge that he regularly used methamphetamine. He has eight prior felony convictions, McKay said.

Fulton told the judge he wasn't friends with Vukovich and had spoken to him at most twice over the past two decades. Still, he said he wanted to help him and he asked the court system to do the same.

"Have mercy on him," Fulton told the judge. "Help him."

While Judge Marston expressed sympathy for the brothers' childhood experiences, he said Vukovich has ultimately proved he is dangerous and "willing to hurt people."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9ew7/how-sex-offender-registries-can-result-in-vigilante-murder

Update

Anonymous said...

https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Professor-of-Horrible/242542

Here is an interesting research read

Anonymous said...

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-im-proud-ive-done-self-confessed-palmerston-north-creep-catcher-unrepentant-over-vigilante-justice-campaign

New Update



Connor Bevins, 20, entered no plea to most of the 10 charges.

The 20-year-old says his vigilante justice campaign was partly inspired by similar groups overseas.

Bevins says he pretended to be a minor online and would start conversations in chat rooms.
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"Normally after about five messages or so they'd start talking dirty, sending me pictures of their parts and stuff," he said.

Outside court he said his aim was to expose paedophiles.

"Now they're charging me for doing their job that's their problem not mine... I'm proud of what I've done, I've got no regrets at all," he said.

Bevins said he would organise to meet many of them in the Palmerston North Square, confront them, at times abuse them, and then chase them, often ending up in the local police station just down the road.

Read more: Self-described 'creep catcher' accused of posting harmful videos online appears in court

He said he filmed it all and then put it online.

A woman, who didn't want to be named, says she knows some of the victims, many of whom say they're innocent.

"On the face of it, it was a good idea... but just not the way he was doing it," the woman said.

"Nobody's been charged, all it's done is these people are now named and shamed with no real evidence."

Bevins also faces charges of threatening one of the people in his videos and jumping on a person's car.

He is on bail and due to appear in court again next month.

Anonymous said...



Connor Bevins, 20, entered no plea to most of the 10 charges.

The 20-year-old says his vigilante justice campaign was partly inspired by similar groups overseas.

Bevins says he pretended to be a minor online and would start conversations in chat rooms.


"Normally after about five messages or so they'd start talking dirty, sending me pictures of their parts and stuff," he said.

Outside court he said his aim was to expose paedophiles.

"Now they're charging me for doing their job that's their problem not mine... I'm proud of what I've done, I've got no regrets at all," he said.

Bevins said he would organise to meet many of them in the Palmerston North Square, confront them, at times abuse them, and then chase them, often ending up in the local police station just down the road.

Read more: Self-described 'creep catcher' accused of posting harmful videos online appears in court

He said he filmed it all and then put it online.

A woman, who didn't want to be named, says she knows some of the victims, many of whom say they're innocent.

"On the face of it, it was a good idea... but just not the way he was doing it," the woman said.

"Nobody's been charged, all it's done is these people are now named and shamed with no real evidence."

Bevins also faces charges of threatening one of the people in his videos and jumping on a person's car.

He is on bail and due to appear in court again next month.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-im-proud-ive-done-self-confessed-palmerston-north-creep-catcher-unrepentant-over-vigilante-justice-campaign

Here is An update

Anonymous said...

http://www.wesh.com/article/man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-several-people-in-kissimmee/20193028

Update for articles on Absolute Zero Unites

http://www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/should-girl-who-killed-pimp-get-a-break-for-being-sex-slave/1162905098

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. —
Police said a man was locked up after he was accused of trying to kill sex offenders.

Officers said he tried to set the men on fire.


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Jorge Porto-Sierra has been formally charged with four counts of attempted premeditated murder.

Osceola County detectives said the 50-year-old confessed to deputies he tried to kill multiple people at the Friendly Village Inn on Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway.

After his March 7 arrest, Porto-Sierra said he arrived at the motel to "barbecue all the child molesters on fire and kill them."

WESH 2 News confirmed at least two of the four victims are convicted sexual offenders.

Witnesses told deputies Porto-Sierra made several threats, screaming, "I'm going to kill you, child molester," and allegedly began throwing gasoline on their front door.

Porto-Sierra is accused of breaking a hotel window to pour gasoline inside.

Witnesses said he was carrying a cigarrette the whole time.

Another couple said Porto-Sierra rammed their car and poured gas on it.

When asked by deputies why he did not carry out his threats, Porto-Sierra said, "You got here too soon."

Porto-Sierra remains behind bars at the Osceola County Jail.

He's being held on no bond.