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L.A.’s Progressive District Attorney George Gascón appears to be more concerned about the predator than the 10-year girl that was victimized.
James Tubbs, 26, who now styles himself as a transgender woman “Hannah”, was two weeks shy of his 18th birthday when he assaulted the 10-year old in 2014.
The case went cold until Tubbs, who went on to commit other offenses in several other counties, was tied to the Denny’s attack through DNA evidence.
Tubbs confessed to the 2014 sexual assault and was sentenced to two years at a juvenile facility with the option of early release in six months for “good behavior.”
It is a strange thing to have an adult housed in a juvenile facility, but this is consistent with “woke” D.A. Gascón’s blanket policy that juveniles should not be charged as adults. So that’s what happened with Tubbs despite the charges being laid years after the incident.
It was not until eight years after the Denny’s assault that Tubbs began identifying as a woman.
The Fox News report continually uses Tubbs’s preferred pronouns of “she” but also includes a bizarre conversation where Tubbs uses the word “tranny” to describe people like him. Many in the trans community consider this a slur. Tubbs also says that he’ll go through with sex-change surgery so that he can get into a women’s prison.
“So now they’re going to put me with other trannies that have seen their cases like mine or with one tranny like me that has a case like mine,” Tubbs says. “So when you come to court, make sure you address me as her.”
Then she says that if she goes to prison she’s getting a sex change surgery to go into the women’s facility, and the other person says, “There’s some b—es in there too.”
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin posted a clip of some of the recordings and noted that some of them include Tubbs making “crude, disparaging remarks about the girl and his sexual desires for her at the time.”
In one of the clips Melugin posted, Tubbs said to his father, “Don’t worry about it” referring to his conviction.
Tubbs continues, “It’s a strike. I’m gonna plead out to it, plead guilty. They’re gonna stick me on probation, and it’s gonna be dropped, it’s gonna be done, I won’t have to register, won’t have to do nothing.”
“For offender, you won’t have to register?” asks Tubbs’s father.
“I won’t have to do none of that,” Tubbs replies.
“So what are they going to do to you then?”
“Nothing,” replies Tubbs.
A second clip has Tubbs laughing and saying that if there is a “next time” he’s fleeing the country.
Tubbs was convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a Denny’s bathroom in Palmdale in 2014 at age 17.
In one call in November 2021 while in LA County custody, Tubbs makes extremely crude, disparaging remarks about the girl and his sexual desires for her at the time.
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) February 21, 2022
The young woman who was sexually assaulted by Tubbs when she was just a child says that the treatment of the man who violated her is “insulting” and “unfair” to her.
Tubbs’ victim, who was 10 at the time of the attack, told Fox News Digital that Gascon’s handling of the case has been “insulting” and “unfair” to her.
“The things he did to me and made me do that day was beyond horrible for a ten-year-old girl to have to go through,” she said. “I want him tried as an adult for the crimes he committed against me.”
She said the light sentence was offensive and hurtful and offered her “no true justice.”
“I’ve also heard that my attacker goes by she/them pronouns now,” she added. “I see it also unfair to try him as a woman as well, seeing how he clearly didn’t act like one on January 1st of 2014.”
Here is Bill Melugin discussing the case with Dana Perino.
Gascón has been an advocate of blanket policies that stay in place no matter the details of the case. One of those was not trying a juvenile as an adult, and that’s why Tubbs, who is now an adult, was treated as a juvenile because he committed the crime in 2014 two weeks before becoming a legal adult.
Gascón is now backpedaling now that this case is gaining attention and says that they’re “learning as they go” with blanket policy.
“Specifically, we learned a lot from the Hannah Tubbs case about the need for a policy safety valve,” Gascon said.
He also admitted that Tubbs went on after the 2014 attack to commit other offenses – including one in which DNA evidence linked her to the Denny’s assault.
“Ms. Tubbs had several charges in other counties after the juvenile offense but never received any services which both her past behavior and that subsequent to her arrest demonstrates she clearly needs,” Gascon said. “After her sentencing in our case, I became aware of extremely troubling statements she made about her case, the resolution of it and the young girl that she harmed.”
The recordings, however, were made in November, and sources tell Fox News Digital that prosecutors were well aware of them.
Source: Fox News
Tubbs has a history of violent offenses in multiple states, and Gascón still didn’t see the need to pursue a more aggressive sentence.
In December 2014, police said the suspect in the Danny’s [sic] assault was a panhandler with the nickname ‘Shrink’ who frequented a nearby Chevron gas station early mornings.
The perpetrator was described as an 18- to 20-year-old man, standing about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds, ABC reported at the time.
The man walked with a noticeable limp and was ‘holding his hands down in an odd fashion,’ according to a county sheriff’s sergeant.
After a five-year absence, Tubbs was arrested in Idaho in 2019 on suspicion of battery. Tubbs was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for a stabbing and served time in a state prison when she were linked to the 2014 molestation.
DNA entered into a database that matched Tubbs with the sexual assault at Denny’s, and the accused was brought back to California – by which point there were arrests, for battery, drug possession and probation violations in several states.
Tubbs was eventually brought to LA in November 2021 and quickly confessed to the sexual crime. By this point, Tubbs had transitioned and was known as Hannah.
But Gascon refused to press for jail time in an adult facility, as the crime was committed while Tubbs was a minor, as is the DA’s standard office policy.
Source: Daily Mail
LA County Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Hatami has been quite critical of Gascón’s handling of this case.
Gascón:
“This is not an acknowledgment that we made a mistake in the Tubbs case…Tubbs still does not belong in adult court.”
days later
“If we knew about her disregard for the harm she caused we would have handled this case differently.”
A miscarriage of justice 4 a child
— jonathanhatami (@jonathanhatami) February 21, 2022
George Gascón gave a sexual predator 2 years. The media found out.
Now Gascón says “oops,” 2 years “may not be enough.”
How about just doing the right thing for the victim, for pubic safety & for justice? How about just doing your job?
— jonathanhatami (@jonathanhatami) February 21, 2022
Gascón’s office is now backtracking on the blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults and admits that it may be necessary in “extreme” cases.
This is the kind of “justice” that the “progressive” District Attorneys are providing.
It’s the kind that is most concerned with the perpetrator and gives very little thought to the victim.
Do you want that kind of justice in your community?
