Written by: The Jade Barnes Assoc. 

TRENDING NEWS   
A child rapist goes without jail time on probation after 
raping 13 year-old in church camp. 
​A man from Oklahoma has been said to have raped a 13 year-old at a church camp. Though what has really turned heads was the fact 
that he is not being served for his crime. In fact, he is only being served a sentence of 15 years worth of probation. 

​The man is identified as Benjamin Lawrence Petty. He is 36 years-old and legally blind. Because of his disability, the judge cited his 
other disabilities and took these into consideration when providing his sentence after he plead guilty for the attack and rape of the 
13 year-old girl.  

​Murray County Assistant District Attorney David Pyle said, “The big thing is Mr. Petty is legally blind and the parents (of the victim) live out of state and this little girl lives out of state and 
didn't want to make all the travels back and forth.” He also stated that the plea was negotiated with their permission. 

Though he did still recieve 15 years’ probation, anti-crime advocates are not happy that he didn’t receive jail time. Candida Manion, the executive director of the nonprofit Oklahoma 
Coalition Against Domestic Violence, told the Associated Press, “Failure to hold perpetrators accountable, regardless of their disabilities, sends the wrong message to victims of crimes.” 

Petty received a suspended sentence after his negotiated guilty plea on three felonies, including rape, from District Judge Wallace Coppedge. The camp where the attack happened, and 
where Petty worked as a cook, is run by the Baptist Convention of Convention of Oklahoma and is the largest youth camp in the nation.  

 
Man kills pregnant girlfriend days before she is due. 
 
26 year-old Karmeshia Pipes was found dead in her home in South Memphis, Tennessee. In January 2018, she was was shot killed by her boyfriend 
and father of her soon-to-be baby at the time. Pipes was nine months pregnant and a few days due when she was shot. 

Police told relatives that Pipes had been dead for multiple days when she was found. Police detained the boyfriend identified as Ricky Anderson II in 
their home in the 190 block of Sparks Street. Police found him and Pipes in the house. Relatives say that the last time Pipes was seen was at her baby 
shower on January 21. When police asked Anderson questions about what happened or why he did what he did, but he refused to give answers. Police also saw that Anderson had a fresh 
scratch/cut on his inner wrist. They believe that a possible motive for his murder would be because of an argument that took place between them a while after the baby shower. After being 
detained by police and taken away for sentencing, Anderson was charged with first degree murder. 

Boyfriend attacks girlfriend with a machete 

​A man from Ohio was taken to jail in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania after he was arrested for attacking his girlfriend with a machete. He was driving 
along Interstate 76 when he attacked her. Daniel Ryan Taylor (as pictured), 32, is facing charges of aggravated assaults and making terroristic threats. Taylor 
struck his girlfriend while he was driving on the highway while returning to Dayton, Ohio from a trip to Baltimore, information provided by the Pennsylvania State 
Patrol. The victim told the police that Taylor had ​been high on methamphetamine for the past 12 days, becoming delusional and 
acting paranoid. She said he attacked her with a machete she refused to return to the first seat of his car after she 

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decided to sit in the back. Police found that she​ suffered from cuts to her left hand and bruising on her right cheek. Although her accusations 
checked out, Taylor still told police that the victim was actually the one who was high on meth, and that she was the one being paranoid and 
delusional.  

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