@@BouncyBrownThat was my understanding too. Conjugal visits are supposed to be fore rehabilitation purposes and to allow the prisoner to have some sort of semblance of the outside so as to enable them to re-enter society properly. I’m a little confused how a murderer serving an initial 41 year sentence was able to get conjugal visitation. 😕
Disgusting, people are so selfish and unaware. Like on what planet does that sound like a great idea, to put those kids and their support system through this? I am as disgusted as JJ was.
@@rejoicemokok4022 and our nosy asses love her for tht 😅 cause we would be wanting to know i the tea if she didnt ask...she gave it to us good and hot...
Why would the aunt allow a teacher to have her nieces n nephews by themselves going to the jail anyway.. that's not a teachers place to be doin that.. that's the aunts responsibility it's not the educators.
Conjugal visits should be completely abolished. You took a child's life. You ruined someone's family and that 16 year old girl never had the chance to create a family or live out her dreams. Why should a murderer be allow to create a broken family, reproduce and get married? This is sick.
If I were that 16-year-old's family, it would be devastating and infuriating to hear her killer managing to create his own loving family the way she never could despite being caught and arrested. Also what kind of woman chooses a killer behind bars to have not one but 2 kids with!
A convicted murderer serving 41 years managed to have 2 kids while locked up and the mother is in rehab? Wow so much irresponsibility here but looks like the sister is trying to hold it all together
Some women are into imprisoned men for some reason. There was an episode about that on.... not sure if it was Dr. Phil... or one of those shows. They were discussing why it is that some women feel drawn to imprisoned men that they didn't even know before they were incarcerated
Those crazy women are free to fuck who they want, but it should be looked down upon like a serious drug problem because it's such a mental fuck-up. It's on the same level as shitting in a doorway at a subway station.
I am so disgusted by this case....first how selfish and stupid you can be to get pregnant and have children when the father is in prison and he will be for most of his life and second his sister speaks for him like he didn't deserve to be in prison and it's normal to have children there like he didn't take the life 16 year old girl .....disgusting!
IMO she’s a dummy too. As someone with a sibling (preface: who I love dearly & did not* commit murder), I have never nor will I advocate or enable his stupidity eg. committing crime(s). For context: one of his (my siblings) significant other, at the time, sought my advice as to whether she should allow her children (sidebar - kids that were thankfully** conceived external to the correctional system) to visit their father. I told her “heck no” and that I [personally] would not. She did so anyway out of her own volition; fast forward to present day, she cries and scream bloody mary that a STOOOPID decision she made is now the reason for the children’s relative naughtiness and attributes the reason as such. If you ask me, it’s because she’s a dummy and dummies do as a dummy does. Hence my POV regarding your comment. If someone wants to be a dummy fine but why advocate the lunacy and impose that upon innocent** children. Disgusting. Gets to a point people need to set aside their “feelings” and use common sense. I LOVE my brother but I will never step inside a prison/jail to be patted down etc. for anyone, yet she allowed this for kids?! What an imposition and a dingbat. Kids don’t miss what they don’t have. The real question is who is the boffun that allowed herself get pregnant by a murderer? 🙄
@@marqueonmauldin9095 well I can. I appreciate your stance and equally that my stance will not always be align with that of others. However, as someone who also exists within the same ‘relational capacity’ as the plaintiff - given the example used - she is. Not that I do not empathise with the emotional aspect but again, in these situations, you have to be predictive in your assessment, esp. given the sensitivity. Yes, her sibling is her family member however, by extension so are the kids. The perpetrator (her brother) has already (evidently) made a plethora of bad choices - including choosing to have those children in a dynamic which is unreasonable. Wouldn’t a more loving approach be to take those resources and efforts and utilise them in shielding/helping those children to flourish further* in their environment whilst advocating their father’s name/presence in a less harmful way? I agree it is complicated with children - children who didn’t ask to be here but were divinely made, not only are they organically burdened by the circumstances by which they exist but it’s selfish and “dumb” imo (and regards if it opposes yours) to puppet children around the justice system for your own esteem and expect the consequences to be anything less than adverse. I emphasise with the sisters heart because truly, the stance I take isn’t lighthearted by any means but as far as her brain - she is an overwhelmed dummy [to me] - and it shows.
This whole story is shocking to me. These children have been exposed from a young age to a high level of stress and problems that even an adult would struggle to understand and accept, plus, the way plaintiff tells everything nonchalantly makes me scream SHOCK 😢😱😭
Probably the kids think this is normal. Being locked up for murder and spending time in prison. That's worse. But it's possible because that is all they have known since their birth.
How was she supposed to discuss the issue? "Um... umm.. we'll see what happened was..." and then get yelled at for not directly answering the questions? She's doing the right thing, and being completely honest. She's had to live with this for over twenty years - there's no reason for her to answer any other way.
From personal and others’ experiences, I can’t stand when it seems like the inmate is running everyone else’s life from behind bars when they’re the ones who committed the crime and is serving time. Now everyone’s schedules are shaped for the convenience of his prison sentence. It’s a shame his mistakes are making everyone else miserable and makes them serve his time too! The situation both the mother and father put these caregivers in his terrible and the situation for the kids is just plain tragic. This mess will affect their lives forever, probably generationally.
I was a correctional officer, in Washington in a facility that had those trailers. It was probably the same complex as her brother. I always thought it was wrong for offenders that were guilty of the worst crimes to get that privilege. They had cable channels I didn’t even have at home and on going college opportunities.
19 is not a juvenile. The State of Washington is in a bad place when they consider a 19 year old who murders a 16 year old a juvenile. I hope he is still in prison.
@@kymmymorgan1551 What lmao? If you actually look at the facts, instead of pulling crap outta the air, men get way harsher penalties then women, and women are more likely to get accessory charges if they commit crimes with a man.
And he gets over night visits and can sleep with a woman during those as a murderer??? That’s so crazy I’ve never heard of that being a thing in the US
Imma be honest something is defiantly wrong with her, and I hope the husband never gets out. He MURDERED a 16-year-old when he was 19 so he doesn’t qualify as a juvenile. The fact the lady just brushes off his sentences is wild. He needs to stay locked up 🤷🏽♂️
I agree he should stay locked up but I have sympathy for her. Her brother is locked up and she's stuck taking care of his children. She's doing the best she can and when this is what you live day after day for decades so to deal with it you do minimize it and brush it aside in your mind.
I think that she did not articulate that properly and he was sentenced when he was 19 but committed the crime prior to age 18. That’s the only thing that makes sense. They would only classify him as a minor if the crime was committed when he was under 18 even if he was sentenced after.
They have to stop this practice of kids having night visits. Also if daytime visits are traumatic for young children than these visits need to stop as well. If you weren’t a fit parent whilst on the outside then why should children be weighed down with the burden of having a deadbeat dad in prison and be made to enter these depressive institutions to visit him, why should children have to pay that price. Also I find it absolutely outrageous that prisoners are allowed the privilege to spend private time with girlfriends or partners for hours on end where he can get her pregnant over and over again.
He was 19 when he was sentenced. He had no life. What do you mean if he wasn't a fitted parent. He spent most of his life in jail. I don't know how vicious was that murder but some states have weird laws and we don't know what is the real case. He seems to be doing really good for himself that they allowed him to have these visits with family. Don't judge a person by something they did 2-3 decades ago. He is a different person now.
@@jessicamoore7835 Yikes! He killed her because he was being investigated for raping her. I guess he thought that would end the investigation. 🤦♀️ The judge called him, "amoral, cocky, manipulative, cruel and a sociopath." The ideal father!
"Wright is awaiting sentencing on a rape conviction in a separate case. He also has juvenile convictions for burglary and robbery" This man has more ...and he gets to make babies.. Great
I just read that he had raped his murder victim and raped another teen girl too. How can children be safe with a domestic abuser, serial rapist and murderer? It’s beyond disgusting to allow visitation.
So basically, your choice would be to completely deny these children's right to see their father on a regular basis, just because he is in prison. Yeah, sure, that's a far more positive manner to grow up.
I don't care it is irresponsible to take your child to visit in prisons.. I don't care. When I was 3 yrs old my aunt took me to a prison to see my mom. There was male inmates there too. A child toucher called me over to him, the detail I got was he was in a SMALL CLOSET KNEELED DOWN CALLING ME. I started to go to him and my aunt noticed and grabbed me up. It's just to dangerous and you never know. I'm glad nothing happened to me and I'm glad I don't remember it other than being told about it.
How ridiculous. Jail is supposed to be a punishment because you took something away from someone. Even though he’s in jail, he is still living a life having children, making a family, visiting with his children overnight. After having taken someone else’s life away. In all fairness, it should’ve been that since the person who he killed can’t do any of these things, he shouldn’t be able to any of these things either while he’s serving his sentence. Unbelievable.
@@Kbrown2018 I know that which is why I stated I think she did not articulate it properly. You don’t go sentencing immediately after a murder charge. Sounds like he was sentenced when he was 19 which means it is possible he was minor when the crime was physically committed. After watching Part 2, I’m pretty sure I’m correct
For those who are interested in the 'exceptional sentence' the plaintiff refers to, printed here verbatim from the court records of State vs Matt Wright, August 25, 1997... In Conclusion "32. The standard range sentence for this crime is 281 to 374 months, but the trial court imposed an exceptional sentence of 494 months." The reason the court imposed this exceptional sentence, again verbatim from the court records, "The trial court imposed an exceptional sentence based upon aggravating factors of multiple injuries indicating deliberate cruelty, victim vulnerability, and motive to frustrate prosecution on other charges." The cause of death was described in these same court records as follows, "Here, the autopsy supported the finding of multiple injuries. The autopsy revealed that (1) the cause of death was the blow to the head with a concrete block, causing severe brain injury, (2) Letnes was strangled manually and with another device, (3) Letnes was stabbed in the neck to the depth of her breathing tube, and (4) Letnes had defensive wounds, including scratches and abrasions across her hands, fingers, right arm, right shoulder, bruises on her right arm, shoulder and knee, and lacerations around her lips, indicating that she engaged in a struggle before her death." At the Court of Appeals, this exceptional sentence for Matthew Wright was "Affirmed". Rest In Peace Audra Letnes, you were only 15 years old when your life was so cruelly stolen from you.
There’s so many comments praising her but It seems like if judge would have let her keep talking she would have made excuses for her brother. I don’t think she’s that great
She found it hard to say anything that appeared to criticise her brother. The sister is in total denial and should think more about the 16 years olds family, rather than her own.
These kids should be proud to have a aunt like her! She seems to be a well-put-together lady doing the best she can given the circumstances, and she loves her brother regardless of who he is...
I didn't see Dons Adventures saying anywhere that the brother is a great person, only that the kids should be proud of having an aunt like her. I agree, at least from what's been shown so far. She answered Judge Judy's questions honestly, without subterfuge, and is trying to do her best for the kids in these difficult circumstances.
@@marinam.2293 Thank you! I don’t understand why I’m being accused of saying “he’s a great person” 🤷🏻♂️😆 regardless, I have so much respect for the sister!!! Imagine the difficulty of trying to navigate through your own life and and on top of that you take up the responsibility to grapple with somebody else’s mess they left behind! Imagine the weight that’s on this woman’s shoulders!! I hope the children grow up and take care of their aunt like the queen she is, she’s a Gem 💎
What the hell is wrong with the system when an inmate can have two children and get married and divorced from behind bars ? I mean its just ridiculous. Those children should NEVER have been exposed to that environment either.
For anyone curious his name is Matthew Wright and this is the case they're talking about "The victim's body was found in Innis Arden Park, a few blocks from her home, the morning of May 12. She had been strangled and stabbed, but an autopsy determined she died from head injuries apparently inflicted with a chunk of concrete. The young girl was said to be obsessed with Wright, even though Wright once held a loaded gun to her head, had hogtied her and had made her steal for him, according to prosecutors. Letnes' diary indicated she often called and wrote Wright, but Wright denied any serious relationship, referring to her as "an associate." Even after Letnes obtained a no-contact order against Wright, she continued to call him, Wright testified. Prosecutors maintain Wright killed the girl because she was using a pending rape investigation involving Wright to manipulate him into seeing her more. Miyake said he would ask for as much prison time as possible "for this brutal, senseless murder." The standard range is 25 to 30 years, he said. No date has been set for sentencing. Wright is awaiting sentencing on a rape conviction in a separate case. He also has juvenile convictions for burglary and robbery." Can't believe people are willing to procreate with wastes of oxygen like this.
@@withgoddess8029 and? If she has guardianship then she's responsible for their physical and mental well being. The fact that he murdered a child is in my mind enough of a threat to their safety to warrant not letting him near the kids.
IMHO it is beyond disgusting that a convicted murderer was allowed to father children while in prison. I also expect that taxpayers are paying for his kids since he's not working but in jail. His sister is a piece of work.
So obviously the wife isn't working & had a substance abuse problem herself, so SHE had no business having kids even if it wasn't with a convicted murderer!
The fact that he’s in jail for Murder and is still able to have kids get married and essentially going to get out in a few years is a failure of the justice system the poor girls family doesn’t get to have overnight visitation with her she’s in her grave smh 🤦🏾♀️ and the sister is complicit to his acts I don’t think any child enjoys going to prison it’s selfish to expose them to that at a young age smh 🤦🏾♀️
"The victim's body was found in Innis Arden Park, a few blocks from her home, the morning of May 12. She had been strangled and stabbed, but an autopsy determined she died from head injuries apparently inflicted with a chunk of concrete." Yet this person gets to have children while in Prison. Yikes.
Wow!? I mean? That's some plaintiff. A sister like that is rare. Kudos to her and her tenacity with incarcerated family members. God knows the correctional system does almost nothing to rehabilitate their inmates. Impressive. So far.
Poor kids. Dads in prison for murder, moms a druggy & doesn’t have custody of her kids & the kids live with their aunt smh. Some people don’t DESERVE to have children smh
How desperate n sick in the head do you have to be to get pregnant by a murderer? I just don’t get the world we live in. Kills a 16 year old n gets to have kids.
I was in disbelief when the plaintiff said her brother is in jail for murder, those poor kids, they got the short end of the stick when it comes to parents😢
I think it's really bad that this murderer was allowed to not only get married but also have children while he's in prison locked up. The idea that inmates can get married is ridiculous. On another note tho does the mother have no respect for herself , getting together with someone who's in prison for murder. Crazy.
I'm sorry, but that guy should not be allowed to have overnight visits with his kids. HE MURDERED SOMEEONE. He is in jail to be punished. That's so ridiculous.
"The victim was sixteen and my brother was nineteen." This woman says this as though it's to make everything okay. A grown man still killed a teenaged girl. I don't care if he was a teenager himself. He was an adult.
Our law system is total messed up, if one you are letting inmates get married, and have kids in prison. Then turn around and let the inmate have over night visits with kids in prison. I mean it really doesn't seem like much of punishments anymore, especially for someone who killed a 16 year old. This is why if someone kills my kid, they better run to the police for protection. Because I will make sure they don't ever kill anyone else or have the opportunity to just sit behind bars.
19 isn't a minor. That's an adult who knows that murder is wrong. I hope he doesn't get out anytime soon. And wtf are they thinking allowing him to conceive children in prison?! Absolutely disgusting. He should NOT have any access to those children.
Visiting a brother who murdered a young girl? Sorry but he would be history to me. And to have young children sleep over at the prison with their father? Insane
Can we take a minute and just realize that this man has been in prison from the time that he was 19 and the earliest he can be released is when he is 56.....his life is pretty much over!
@@kca3346 He deserves every second of that sentence. He stabbed that girl, choked her, and then beat her skull in with a chunk of cement. Even if they bury him under the prison, he won't have spent enough time there.
@@MsrSiris And I'm not excusing his actions at the time, they were monstrous and that girl's poor family deserve as much peace as they can get. But the goal of our penitentiary system should be correction and rehabilitation. If someone is a 'lost cause' which I believe no one 100% is, then they should be either imprisoned for life for being too dangerous to be reintegrated into society or given the death penalty, which I also don't support. But he seems to love his children enough to pay $5000 to have someone bring them to visit every week and the corrections system trusts him enough to allow him overnight visits with his children. Based on that I assume that he has done the work and has been on the path of self reflection, accountability and taking responsibility for his actions. But that's just my opinion.
This is one of those request by parents that when I was working in a daycare would say I'm sorry but that's not possible. It's not part of my job description. I can only watch your kids within this building. I would never agree with this arrangement. In my book this would have been one of those crazy parent request.
Having kids with a murderer in prison is about the dumbest thing ever. Good grief.
@dietcola I didn't realize murderers even got congical visits!! I thought it was only nonviolent criminals
@@BouncyBrownThat was my understanding too. Conjugal visits are supposed to be fore rehabilitation purposes and to allow the prisoner to have some sort of semblance of the outside so as to enable them to re-enter society properly. I’m a little confused how a murderer serving an initial 41 year sentence was able to get conjugal visitation. 😕
She abuses substance so her judgement is already compromised
Agree he made his sister life as hell for almost all her life
A murderer gets overnight visitation with children....AND allow to impregnate someone...WTF?
Ridiculous!!!
He cut a 16 year old life’s short and gets to still have his…? Madness
W@@dawnellafreeman4860
Fr he should be on lockdown
I thought I was dreaming when I heard that shit, that is the craziest thing Ive heard in a while
I can't believe the mother got pregnant during prison visits. That is the most mind blowing thing ever. How tragic for the kids
Yes, it’s ridiculous and embarrassing
It's appalling
Disgusting, people are so selfish and unaware. Like on what planet does that sound like a great idea, to put those kids and their support system through this? I am as disgusted as JJ was.
Ugh.....
This is my 1st time ever hearing that this was even possible!
What kind of a woman has two kids with a murdering inmate who's victim was also a child? Unreal.
A drug addict.
I mean it was when he was a young kid too
The kind that doesn't have her children, thank the universe 🤯😵💫
@@Gio102897 gtfoh with that lol you cannot be serious 🧐 if so, CREEPY AF
@@Gio102897 he was 19???
Kinda glad that JJ asked those nosey questions 😅
I just feel like she did it for us all 😂
JJ does due to the fact she is a judge, she has to ask many questions to get the point.
@@trekgirl65 we know ☺
@@rejoicemokok4022 and our nosy asses love her for tht 😅 cause we would be wanting to know i the tea if she didnt ask...she gave it to us good and hot...
Same, what a case!
Why does the state allow the mother to stay overnight and get knocked up by a convicted murderer who can’t support them? Makes no sense whatsoever
Why would the aunt allow a teacher to have her nieces n nephews by themselves going to the jail anyway.. that's not a teachers place to be doin that.. that's the aunts responsibility it's not the educators.
The teacher was getting paid. She probably needed the extra money being a pre school teacher and all
Liberals in Washington state allow all kinds of nonsense to happen
Likely hood, more prisoners for the system. Perpetuating cycle of job security
Yep! I agree. How is he going to pay child support?
Conjugal visits should be completely abolished. You took a child's life. You ruined someone's family and that 16 year old girl never had the chance to create a family or live out her dreams. Why should a murderer be allow to create a broken family, reproduce and get married? This is sick.
Very true! The kids are now also destined to grow up without a father.
Geez I think you are right
You’re so right and I never thought about this until now. It’s unjust
Couldn't agree more! Very sick!!!
Well said
If I were that 16-year-old's family, it would be devastating and infuriating to hear her killer managing to create his own loving family the way she never could despite being caught and arrested. Also what kind of woman chooses a killer behind bars to have not one but 2 kids with!
My sentiments exactly! He took her life away, and he’s still living his, even in jail.
It makes me absolutely sick to my stomach.
Agree
Amen
I’d be pissed they were trying to convince the courts that he was a “juvenile” at the time of the crime. 19 is not a juvenile.
A convicted murderer serving 41 years managed to have 2 kids while locked up and the mother is in rehab? Wow so much irresponsibility here but looks like the sister is trying to hold it all together
I'd only disagree about the sister "trying to hold it all together". The sister sounds like a clueless enabler to me!
This was too dark for me on a Monday! I would prefer neighbors suing each other over a fence or something LOLL
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lol i’m with you 😂😂
Lolol true!!!!
Lol yeah wild
LMFAO WORD
having children with a murder is CRAZY. and taking children to see him is even more CRAZY. i hope that young girl is resting peacefully❤️
Some women are into imprisoned men for some reason. There was an episode about that on.... not sure if it was Dr. Phil... or one of those shows. They were discussing why it is that some women feel drawn to imprisoned men that they didn't even know before they were incarcerated
murderer, murder is the act.
These women be desperate for anyone to pay them some attention
The children should know their father. I know it’s hard to understand but it’s important.
Those crazy women are free to fuck who they want, but it should be looked down upon like a serious drug problem because it's such a mental fuck-up. It's on the same level as shitting in a doorway at a subway station.
I am so disgusted by this case....first how selfish and stupid you can be to get pregnant and have children when the father is in prison and he will be for most of his life and second his sister speaks for him like he didn't deserve to be in prison and it's normal to have children there like he didn't take the life 16 year old girl .....disgusting!
She couldn't even answer the questions directly.
Mind blowing about the over-night stays
Ikr? It's odd that they talk about the situation so normally. I guess people deal with life's happenings the best they can and just move forward.
Props to the sister she’s in a bad spot and doing her best
Yesss, you can see the pain and strength emitting off of her!
right, this is very stressful on here I'm sure
IMO she’s a dummy too. As someone with a sibling (preface: who I love dearly & did not* commit murder), I have never nor will I advocate or enable his stupidity eg. committing crime(s).
For context: one of his (my siblings) significant other, at the time, sought my advice as to whether she should allow her children (sidebar - kids that were thankfully** conceived external to the correctional system) to visit their father. I told her “heck no” and that I [personally] would not. She did so anyway out of her own volition; fast forward to present day, she cries and scream bloody mary that a STOOOPID decision she made is now the reason for the children’s relative naughtiness and attributes the reason as such.
If you ask me, it’s because she’s a dummy and dummies do as a dummy does. Hence my POV regarding your comment. If someone wants to be a dummy fine but why advocate the lunacy and impose that upon innocent** children. Disgusting. Gets to a point people need to set aside their “feelings” and use common sense. I LOVE my brother but I will never step inside a prison/jail to be patted down etc. for anyone, yet she allowed this for kids?! What an imposition and a dingbat. Kids don’t miss what they don’t have. The real question is who is the boffun that allowed herself get pregnant by a murderer? 🙄
@@lovebbygrl can’t call someone dum for looking out for there own family member . Plus her situation is complicated because of children
@@marqueonmauldin9095 well I can. I appreciate your stance and equally that my stance will not always be align with that of others. However, as someone who also exists within the same ‘relational capacity’ as the plaintiff - given the example used - she is.
Not that I do not empathise with the emotional aspect but again, in these situations, you have to be predictive in your assessment, esp. given the sensitivity. Yes, her sibling is her family member however, by extension so are the kids. The perpetrator (her brother) has already (evidently) made a plethora of bad choices - including choosing to have those children in a dynamic which is unreasonable. Wouldn’t a more loving approach be to take those resources and efforts and utilise them in shielding/helping those children to flourish further* in their environment whilst advocating their father’s name/presence in a less harmful way? I agree it is complicated with children - children who didn’t ask to be here but were divinely made, not only are they organically burdened by the circumstances by which they exist but it’s selfish and “dumb” imo (and regards if it opposes yours) to puppet children around the justice system for your own esteem and expect the consequences to be anything less than adverse. I emphasise with the sisters heart because truly, the stance I take isn’t lighthearted by any means but as far as her brain - she is an overwhelmed dummy [to me] - and it shows.
This whole story is shocking to me. These children have been exposed from a young age to a high level of stress and problems that even an adult would struggle to understand and accept, plus, the way plaintiff tells everything nonchalantly makes me scream SHOCK 😢😱😭
Probably the kids think this is normal. Being locked up for murder and spending time in prison. That's worse. But it's possible because that is all they have known since their birth.
How was she supposed to discuss the issue? "Um... umm.. we'll see what happened was..." and then get yelled at for not directly answering the questions? She's doing the right thing, and being completely honest. She's had to live with this for over twenty years - there's no reason for her to answer any other way.
She said she got used to it too while visiting her brother since early age. So ofcourse she is talking nonchalantly
From personal and others’ experiences, I can’t stand when it seems like the inmate is running everyone else’s life from behind bars when they’re the ones who committed the crime and is serving time. Now everyone’s schedules are shaped for the convenience of his prison sentence. It’s a shame his mistakes are making everyone else miserable and makes them serve his time too! The situation both the mother and father put these caregivers in his terrible and the situation for the kids is just plain tragic. This mess will affect their lives forever, probably generationally.
So eloquently said!
Thats very UnSettling for me. That he reproduced while serving time for murdering a child.
I was a correctional officer, in Washington in a facility that had those trailers. It was probably the same complex as her brother. I always thought it was wrong for offenders that were guilty of the worst crimes to get that privilege. They had cable channels I didn’t even have at home and on going college opportunities.
This goes to show you people will defend their blood no matter WHAT
@@sirlancelote8290 I’m happy the kids have someone in their corner. I’m referring to the way she speaks about her brother and his situation.
19 is not a juvenile. The State of Washington is in a bad place when they consider a 19 year old who murders a 16 year old a juvenile. I hope he is still in prison.
Literally just saw another comment saying “well he was a young kid himself” like no, at 19 you know not to murder someone????
But you know what JJ says about young men….they’re not cooked yet until they’re in their late 20s or early 30s. Who knows how many other judges agree.
@@IndSon5204 probably why women usually get harsher sentences for the same crimes.
@@kymmymorgan1551 What lmao? If you actually look at the facts, instead of pulling crap outta the air, men get way harsher penalties then women, and women are more likely to get accessory charges if they commit crimes with a man.
And he gets over night visits and can sleep with a woman during those as a murderer??? That’s so crazy I’ve never heard of that being a thing in the US
Imma be honest something is defiantly wrong with her, and I hope the husband never gets out. He MURDERED a 16-year-old when he was 19 so he doesn’t qualify as a juvenile. The fact the lady just brushes off his sentences is wild. He needs to stay locked up 🤷🏽♂️
I agree he should stay locked up but I have sympathy for her. Her brother is locked up and she's stuck taking care of his children. She's doing the best she can and when this is what you live day after day for decades so to deal with it you do minimize it and brush it aside in your mind.
She did not write the law.
Right he wasn’t a minor and he killed a minor … That should be even worse
I think that she did not articulate that properly and he was sentenced when he was 19 but committed the crime prior to age 18. That’s the only thing that makes sense. They would only classify him as a minor if the crime was committed when he was under 18 even if he was sentenced after.
brother not husband
but i agree he should stay in for what he did, and she feels very much like one of those "dindu nuffin" people
They have to stop this practice of kids having night visits. Also if daytime visits are traumatic for young children than these visits need to stop as well. If you weren’t a fit parent whilst on the outside then why should children be weighed down with the burden of having a deadbeat dad in prison and be made to enter these depressive institutions to visit him, why should children have to pay that price. Also I find it absolutely outrageous that prisoners are allowed the privilege to spend private time with girlfriends or partners for hours on end where he can get her pregnant over and over again.
He was 19 when he was sentenced. He had no life. What do you mean if he wasn't a fitted parent. He spent most of his life in jail. I don't know how vicious was that murder but some states have weird laws and we don't know what is the real case. He seems to be doing really good for himself that they allowed him to have these visits with family. Don't judge a person by something they did 2-3 decades ago. He is a different person now.
WHO else is curious now in 2023 if that murderer has been paroled yet?
There's a book written on this even! It looks like he's still in prison though
Googled "Matthew Wright Washington murder" What he did was atrocious and is still in prison.
@@jessicamoore7835 Yikes! He killed her because he was being investigated for raping her. I guess he thought that would end the investigation. 🤦♀️ The judge called him, "amoral, cocky, manipulative, cruel and a sociopath." The ideal father!
I was but did the math and its only been about like seven to eight years since this case...
"Wright is awaiting sentencing on a rape conviction in a separate case. He also has juvenile convictions for burglary and robbery"
This man has more ...and he gets to make babies.. Great
Dragging the children to a prison to see the father on a regular basis is horrible. Let the children grow up in a positive manner, geez
Absolutely.
1000%
Perhaps they’ve developed a close bond with him and love him as their dad. Ever thought of that from the children’s point of view?
I just read that he had raped his murder victim and raped another teen girl too. How can children be safe with a domestic abuser, serial rapist and murderer? It’s beyond disgusting to allow visitation.
So basically, your choice would be to completely deny these children's right to see their father on a regular basis, just because he is in prison. Yeah, sure, that's a far more positive manner to grow up.
I don't care it is irresponsible to take your child to visit in prisons.. I don't care. When I was 3 yrs old my aunt took me to a prison to see my mom. There was male inmates there too. A child toucher called me over to him, the detail I got was he was in a SMALL CLOSET KNEELED DOWN CALLING ME. I started to go to him and my aunt noticed and grabbed me up. It's just to dangerous and you never know. I'm glad nothing happened to me and I'm glad I don't remember it other than being told about it.
Wow! That's creepy and terrifying
I took my sister to a prison to see her then boyfriend, and told myself I’d never go back in one ever again. Very dark place to go even as an adult.
Wow, that was educational
Wasn't it though
How ridiculous. Jail is supposed to be a punishment because you took something away from someone. Even though he’s in jail, he is still living a life having children, making a family, visiting with his children overnight. After having taken someone else’s life away. In all fairness, it should’ve been that since the person who he killed can’t do any of these things, he shouldn’t be able to any of these things either while he’s serving his sentence. Unbelievable.
He was 19! He wasn’t a juvenile! 😒
If he committed the crime before 18 but was sentenced after age 18, that would be why. They base sentences on when the crime was committed
@@whosaidthat9265 she literally said “he was 19 and the victim was 16”
@@Kbrown2018 I know that which is why I stated I think she did not articulate it properly. You don’t go sentencing immediately after a murder charge. Sounds like he was sentenced when he was 19 which means it is possible he was minor when the crime was physically committed. After watching Part 2, I’m pretty sure I’m correct
For those who are interested in the 'exceptional sentence' the plaintiff refers to, printed here verbatim from the court records of State vs Matt Wright, August 25, 1997...
In Conclusion
"32. The standard range sentence for this crime is 281 to 374 months, but the trial court imposed an exceptional sentence of 494 months."
The reason the court imposed this exceptional sentence, again verbatim from the court records, "The trial court imposed an exceptional sentence based upon aggravating factors of multiple injuries indicating deliberate cruelty, victim vulnerability, and motive to frustrate prosecution on other charges."
The cause of death was described in these same court records as follows, "Here, the autopsy supported the finding of multiple injuries. The autopsy revealed that (1) the cause of death was the blow to the head with a concrete block, causing severe brain injury, (2) Letnes was strangled manually and with another device, (3) Letnes was stabbed in the neck to the depth of her breathing tube, and (4) Letnes had defensive wounds, including scratches and abrasions across her hands, fingers, right arm, right shoulder, bruises on her right arm, shoulder and knee, and lacerations around her lips, indicating that she engaged in a struggle before her death."
At the Court of Appeals, this exceptional sentence for Matthew Wright was "Affirmed".
Rest In Peace Audra Letnes, you were only 15 years old when your life was so cruelly stolen from you.
Oh my!!!! This is insane. 😢 He should be in solitary forever with one meal a day.
It's scary how the sister trying to humanize her brother even though he murdered a sixteen-year-old girl.
There are truly evil people on this planet and they are not mentally ill. They are just pure evil. Their choice!
There’s so many comments praising her but It seems like if judge would have let her keep talking she would have made excuses for her brother. I don’t think she’s that great
She found it hard to say anything that appeared to criticise her brother. The sister is in total denial and should think more about the 16 years olds family, rather than her own.
newsflash, murderers are human. Just like you.
You can murder a 16 year old girl and get out to live a life? OUTRAGEOUS.
These kids should be proud to have a aunt like her! She seems to be a well-put-together lady doing the best she can given the circumstances, and she loves her brother regardless of who he is...
People like her brother SHOULD NOT BE HELD UP AS GREAT PEOPLE!
@@queenbee3647 Huh?? nobody said he was a great person...Learn how to read please!
@@DonGrigorianFishing Great in prison is not great out of it. This is a theory that remains to be seen.
I didn't see Dons Adventures saying anywhere that the brother is a great person, only that the kids should be proud of having an aunt like her. I agree, at least from what's been shown so far. She answered Judge Judy's questions honestly, without subterfuge, and is trying to do her best for the kids in these difficult circumstances.
@@marinam.2293 Thank you! I don’t understand why I’m being accused of saying “he’s a great person” 🤷🏻♂️😆 regardless, I have so much respect for the sister!!! Imagine the difficulty of trying to navigate through your own life and and on top of that you take up the responsibility to grapple with somebody else’s mess they left behind! Imagine the weight that’s on this woman’s shoulders!! I hope the children grow up and take care of their aunt like the queen she is, she’s a Gem 💎
How is your brother a juvenile at 19??? 🤣🤣🤣 He killed a 16yo as an adult, he should get at least the minimum.
You can get youthful offender status up until your 20s.
@@whiskeytangofoxtrot1986 Damn, didn't know that! Kinda odd considering you can be tried as an adult as an actual minor. 🤔
@@Squidskuad just depends on the crime and the lawyer I guess and I’m sure every state has their own laws concerning it.
What the hell is wrong with the system when an inmate can have two children and get married and divorced from behind bars ? I mean its just ridiculous. Those children should NEVER have been exposed to that environment either.
hey just a PSA taking your kids to visit their parents in prison is very ~traumatic~ (i saw my dad in prison for 8 consecutive years)
I don't believe that kids should be allowed to visit their parents in prison. That is no place for a kid.
Dang that's heavy. Seems like the sister is really trying to step up to the plate.
For anyone curious his name is Matthew Wright and this is the case they're talking about "The victim's body was found in Innis Arden Park, a few blocks from her home, the morning of May 12. She had been strangled and stabbed, but an autopsy determined she died from head injuries apparently inflicted with a chunk of concrete.
The young girl was said to be obsessed with Wright, even though Wright once held a loaded gun to her head, had hogtied her and had made her steal for him, according to prosecutors. Letnes' diary indicated she often called and wrote Wright, but Wright denied any serious relationship, referring to her as "an associate." Even after Letnes obtained a no-contact order against Wright, she continued to call him, Wright testified.
Prosecutors maintain Wright killed the girl because she was using a pending rape investigation involving Wright to manipulate him into seeing her more.
Miyake said he would ask for as much prison time as possible "for this brutal, senseless murder." The standard range is 25 to 30 years, he said. No date has been set for sentencing.
Wright is awaiting sentencing on a rape conviction in a separate case. He also has juvenile convictions for burglary and robbery."
Can't believe people are willing to procreate with wastes of oxygen like this.
Oh my goodness
Imagine getting pregnant by a guy found guilty of murder during an overnight visit 🥴🥴mom and dad will be so proud 🥴🥴
Why are we letting murderers see their kids in prison?
Two very well-spoken individuals makes for an enjoyable case.
Considering what's this case about, at least they're being serious and respectful in court.
This whole case so far has sickened me I would not take kids to see a sicko who murders anyone(especially a child)
They are his kids not hers.
@@withgoddess8029 and?
If she has guardianship then she's responsible for their physical and mental well being. The fact that he murdered a child is in my mind enough of a threat to their safety to warrant not letting him near the kids.
Shut tf up. Those kids have nothing to do with the crime their dad committed. They should have all rights to see their dad.
IMHO it is beyond disgusting that a convicted murderer was allowed to father children while in prison. I also expect that taxpayers are paying for his kids since he's not working but in jail. His sister is a piece of work.
Of course it's ALL on the taxpayers' dime! The "wife" of her brother is in rehab, according to the clueless sister!
So obviously the wife isn't working & had a substance abuse problem herself, so SHE had no business having kids even if it wasn't with a convicted murderer!
This is mind blowing
Why would you take children to see a murderer? Are you kidding me? Absolutely not.
The fact that he’s in jail for Murder and is still able to have kids get married and essentially going to get out in a few years is a failure of the justice system the poor girls family doesn’t get to have overnight visitation with her she’s in her grave smh 🤦🏾♀️ and the sister is complicit to his acts I don’t think any child enjoys going to prison it’s selfish to expose them to that at a young age smh 🤦🏾♀️
I feel bad for the kids
"The victim's body was found in Innis Arden Park, a few blocks from her home, the morning of May 12. She had been strangled and stabbed, but an autopsy determined she died from head injuries apparently inflicted with a chunk of concrete." Yet this person gets to have children while in Prison. Yikes.
Wow!? I mean? That's some plaintiff. A sister like that is rare. Kudos to her and her tenacity with incarcerated family members. God knows the correctional system does almost nothing to rehabilitate their inmates. Impressive. So far.
Poor kids. Dads in prison for murder, moms a druggy & doesn’t have custody of her kids & the kids live with their aunt smh. Some people don’t DESERVE to have children smh
Judge judy is absolutely fascinating, a genius.
What a screwed up family. Feel so sorry for the kids.
How desperate n sick in the head do you have to be to get pregnant by a murderer? I just don’t get the world we live in. Kills a 16 year old n gets to have kids.
The sister brought the teacher to court and told the world about her brother......... Unbelievable
I was in disbelief when the plaintiff said her brother is in jail for murder, those poor kids, they got the short end of the stick when it comes to parents😢
Bless her! Family vacations at prisons and she managed to stay out herself lol. Good for her tho seriously
Thank you so much for posting these, I love my daily dose of JJ!
This is supposed to be a punishment for murdering a 16 year old girl!!!
this is really ghetto 🍿cant wait for part 2
How selfish to conceive children you can never raise and bring them to sleep in a prison.
I have never in my life heard of over night visits in a prison. I knew sometimes married inmates could get a conjugal visit but dang.
How Can A Killer Have So Many Rights! I Would Not Take Children To Such A Horrible Place! These People Are Sickning! 😬😬
Smh… those kids need to enjoy their childhood instead of visiting their pops in jail… that’s just too much
I will never in my life bring my kids to see their murderer father in prison
I think it's really bad that this murderer was allowed to not only get married but also have children while he's in prison locked up. The idea that inmates can get married is ridiculous. On another note tho does the mother have no respect for herself , getting together with someone who's in prison for murder. Crazy.
I'm sorry, but that guy should not be allowed to have overnight visits with his kids. HE MURDERED SOMEEONE. He is in jail to be punished. That's so ridiculous.
"The victim was sixteen and my brother was nineteen." This woman says this as though it's to make everything okay. A grown man still killed a teenaged girl. I don't care if he was a teenager himself. He was an adult.
I don’t understand how you could let kids go stay with a murderer convicted of killing a child.
How is 19 juvenile??? 🥺😳
Wowow..what a case!!
Our law system is total messed up, if one you are letting inmates get married, and have kids in prison. Then turn around and let the inmate have over night visits with kids in prison. I mean it really doesn't seem like much of punishments anymore, especially for someone who killed a 16 year old. This is why if someone kills my kid, they better run to the police for protection. Because I will make sure they don't ever kill anyone else or have the opportunity to just sit behind bars.
Kids visiting the murderer?? !!😮
19 isn't a minor. That's an adult who knows that murder is wrong. I hope he doesn't get out anytime soon. And wtf are they thinking allowing him to conceive children in prison?! Absolutely disgusting. He should NOT have any access to those children.
You can tell JJ is taking this case extremely seriously.
and i thought i made bad decisions
2:53 that sigh from JJ like "Jesus fckn Christ" 🤣
Am I the only one who thinks murders shouldn’t have overnight visits? There should be an exception for murders. Smh
This case is a little heavier than the usual ones we see here
Visiting a brother who murdered a young girl? Sorry but he would be history to me. And to have young children sleep over at the prison with their father? Insane
Prisoners have too many rights
Can we take a minute and just realize that this man has been in prison from the time that he was 19 and the earliest he can be released is when he is 56.....his life is pretty much over!
Good
@@MsrSiris But we only get one life. To spend almost all of it in a cage is inhumane to me.
@@kca3346 He deserves every second of that sentence. He stabbed that girl, choked her, and then beat her skull in with a chunk of cement. Even if they bury him under the prison, he won't have spent enough time there.
@@MsrSiris And I'm not excusing his actions at the time, they were monstrous and that girl's poor family deserve as much peace as they can get. But the goal of our penitentiary system should be correction and rehabilitation. If someone is a 'lost cause' which I believe no one 100% is, then they should be either imprisoned for life for being too dangerous to be reintegrated into society or given the death penalty, which I also don't support. But he seems to love his children enough to pay $5000 to have someone bring them to visit every week and the corrections system trusts him enough to allow him overnight visits with his children. Based on that I assume that he has done the work and has been on the path of self reflection, accountability and taking responsibility for his actions. But that's just my opinion.
Good
He's crazy and she's crazy
Murders a teenager and acts like his life is over heartless sister
👏👏👏
Since when is a 19 year old a juvenile.
Dude should stay in jail forever
Wow...after watching that my life now feels a lot less complicated...
How do they allow sexual contact in prison with visitors
Did you see judge Judy's touchdown 🙌
Soo the mother had these children with a murderer then divorced the inmate and said to hell with the kids. WOW. I blame the state.
Murder?! Wow
People love making bad decisions. I've made some too but I never dragged someone innocent into it.
She just said he was 19 when he committed the murder. How was he a juvenile??? Ridiculous!
19 is not a “juvenile”.
EXACTLY.
The plaintiff is in deep denial
What a case! I mean you should be able to have contact but idk about the making the kids. What a thing to do with the kids
Wrf? Conjugal visits should not be happening. The point is to take away from you and be punished, not have a whole outside life. Jfc
19 is a juvenile? where?
Well, this is obviously generational institutionalization.
I would have never put innocent kids through this. Insane
This is one of those request by parents that when I was working in a daycare would say I'm sorry but that's not possible. It's not part of my job description. I can only watch your kids within this building. I would never agree with this arrangement. In my book this would have been one of those crazy parent request.