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2026-03-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Pedophile Jarvis Butts who murdered Naziyah Harris, 13, after 'getting her pregnant meets violent end in prison
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A pedophile who murdered a 13-year-old girl after getting her pregnant has died in prison in an apparent suicide, officials said.

Jarvis Butts, 43, was found dead in his cell at the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in Jackson, Michigan on Wednesday.

He was just two weeks into a 35 to 60 year sentence for the murder of Na'Ziyah Harris.

Prison staff said they 'provided life-saving measures which were unsuccessful' and noted that state police are investigating Butts's death as a suicide.

He pleaded guilty to murdering Harris in January 2024 after impregnating her and prosecutors said he targeted the young girl after previously having children with her aunt.

Butts was also sentenced to ten to fifteen years for sexually assaulting other children.

Prosecutors said Butts groomed Harris for two years before murdering her, finding that he often sent her sexually explicit texts and grew close to her family.

In the weeks before the murder, Butts searched online for abortions and abortion pills.

Harris was last seen on the morning of January 9, 2024, getting off a bus in Detroit.

Prosecutors said they uncovered text messages showing she met up with Butts on the day she disappeared.

'He was a classic and expert groomer and pedophile,' Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said when he was charged.

In September 2023, Harris allegedly text Butts to inform him she had missed her period and by November 2023 'the evidence shows Butts knows that she is pregnant.'

Worthy said: 'His phone records show that he searches online about abortions, abortion pills and drinking red anti-freeze.'

The prosecutor also accused Butts of targeting and befriending women with intent to have sexual contact with their young daughters in a sickening campaign of abuse.

As part of the investigation, police reportedly tracked Butts' movements to the Rouge River in Detroit the day after Harris disappeared.

Police later recovered the clothes Harris was last seen wearing from the area.

Harris's body has never been found, but as part of Butts' plea deal he was required to provide details about the location of her remains.

Worthy said after he pleaded guilty, 'one of the most important aspects of the plea agreement was giving Na’Ziyah’s family some semblance of closure. The disclosure of the location of her body was crucial.'

Following his arrest for Harris's murder, he was additionally charged with sexually assaulting a number of other young girls aged under 13.

One of the victims, now 20, was abused between April 2012 and April 2014, Worthy said.

The second victim was abused between July 2015 and July 2017, prosecutors said.

The charges come after Butts was convicted for sexually assaulting two young girls in 2005.
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Posted by Skidmark 2026-03-27 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1852 views ]  Top

1 Justice, but at the hands of the unlikely.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-03-27 07:00||   2026-03-27 07:00|| Front Page Top

2 Not really, Mike.

It was a common occurrence prior to the 1960's for jailers to inform the jail population that a r*pist or child pr*dator was due into the facility.

Sometimes the new inmate lasted a day, sometimes not.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2026-03-27 08:36||   2026-03-27 08:36|| Front Page Top

3 
"...died in prison in an apparent suicide, officials said."


Hummmmm!
Where have I heard that before?

My hats off to whom ever helped him go to Hell quickly. It has saved the taxpayers likely $$ millions used over the next 35+years. Or until the next perverted liberal Democrat Coup took office and pardoned him.
Posted by NN2N1 2026-03-27 09:20||   2026-03-27 09:20|| Front Page Top

4 Strange where you find justice vs ritual.
Posted by Procopius2k 2026-03-27 09:43||   2026-03-27 09:43|| Front Page Top

5 just two weeks

Two weeks more than he deserved
Posted by Mercutio 2026-03-27 10:28||   2026-03-27 10:28|| Front Page Top

6 only sad thing here is that Butts died before he gave police the location of the victim's body
Posted by Lord Garth 2026-03-27 13:04||   2026-03-27 13:04|| Front Page Top

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