Gascon’s Progressive Policies Implode in Real Time, While Victims Continue to be Denied Justice – Opinion

Fox News’ Bill Melugin continues to do fabulous investigative work. After exposing all the lies, malfeasance, and coverup of Joe Biden’s Border crisis, he has refocused his sights back to Los Angeles, and boy is it ever needed.

RedState has reported on Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón and his radical policies on criminal justice reform, as well as the victims and voters attempts to recall him. It seems that the chicken has returned to roost because one of his policies is refusing to trial juveniles who are convicted of violent crimes as adults.

In 2014, James Tubbs sexually assaulted a 10-year old girl in the restroom of a Denny’s restaurant. Tubbs was just two week’s shy of his 18th birthday at the time. According to the Fox News report, eight years later, Tubbs, who is now identifying as “Hannah,” and transitioning to a transgendered female, pleaded guilty in January to that assault.

Thanks to Gascón’s aforementioned policy, he/she/it essentially received a slap on the wrist.

The following is taken from the report

She received a sentence of two years at a juvenile facility because Gascon’s office declined to transfer the case to adult court, adhering to one of the progressive prosecutor’s day-one directives barring “children” from being tried as adults. She could serve as little as six months and won’t have to register as a sex offender.

You would assume that gratitude would suffice and you should keep your mouth shut while you await sentence and/or release. But this is a twisted criminal we are talking about, further twisted by playing around with his/her/he/she’s hormones.

Bill Melugin continues to report on the horrifying details of a telephone call Ms. Tubbs’ phone call with Mr./Ms.

Hannah Tubbs was a trans child molester and she received an explicit Los Angeles jailhouse recording. The recordings show her confessing that it was wrong to abuse a young girl while gloating about the light sentence.

She boasted that nothing would happen to her after she pleaded guilty due to Democrat District Attorney George Gascon’s policies and laughed that she won’t have to go back to prison or register as a sex offender. She made explicit comments about the victim, which she is not allowed to publish.

“I’m gonna plead out to it, plead guilty,” Tubbs says in one recording. “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.”

“You won’t have to register?” her father asks on the other line later in the conversation.

“I won’t have to do none of that,” Tubbs replies.

“So what are they going to do to you then?”

“Nothing,” Tubbs answers, then laughs.

It’s sickening. It is believed that other conversations were also discovered, though they are far too graphic for print. Ms. Tubbs not only is a sociopath, but he/she/it also has no remorse. These are the people Gascón thinks need to be protected, as opposed to the victims.

The 18-year-old victim of the assault expressed rightly her dismay at Tubbs’ sentencing and over this development.

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.”

On December 7, 2021, the anniversary of when Gascón was sworn into office, he played true believer. Flanked by his fellow Soros-backed D.A.s from other states, like Illinois’ Kim Foxx and Massachusetts’ Rachael Rollins, Gascón justifed his policies.

Gascon, flanked by more than a dozen district attorneys from other states, addressed the media, saying the so-called “tough-on-crime approach failed.”

“We are trying to dramatically change a system that has served no one, not the victims of crime, not those who are accused and not the public,” Gascon said.

A spokesman for DA George Gascon tells me the administration wasn’t aware of the calls until I reached out last week.
Gascon released a statement saying if he knew about Tubbs’ comments on the calls, he would have handled the case differently, and he is now changing policy. pic.twitter.com/sa3I22Wi3V

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) February 21, 2022

On Sunday, the statement was released.

As with any responsible office we are constantly learning, taking feedback from the community and making adjustments to accommodate the complexity of the work. It is the only way to be responsible. It has been a joy to learn and grow in my work. It was 40 years ago that I first started working in policing. I thought arresting and locking people up would provide safety. After many decades of experience, however, I realized that we need a different approach. This is also true today. While I stand firm on the core values of our policies and have had to deal with some difficult cases, it is not all that easy. To accommodate the extraordinary, we have made minor changes to LWOP and juvenile policies.

Particularly, the Hannah Tubbs incident taught us a lot about the importance of having a policy safety mechanism. Instead of the typical case in which a minor is taken into custody at the same time as their crime, Ms. Tubbs was arrested by police when she was 26 years old for a crime that she had committed while a juvenile. Although Ms. Tubbs was convicted of several juvenile crimes in different counties, she never received the services that her behavior as a teenager and her subsequent arrest clearly indicate. I learned of troubling statements made by Ms. Tubbs about the case, its resolution, and the child she had harmed after her sentencing.

In its current form, the juvenile system is not able to provide sufficient support for 26-year-olds with such high levels of difficulty. For most people, a few years in jail is sufficient. But it might not for Ms. Tubbs. We would have dealt with this case differently if we had known about the damage she did. Complex facts and issues in her case are not common. Therefore, I shouldn’t have dealt with them as such. We will be able to move forward with this policy change.

What Gascón has really learned is that the political winds are no longer in his favor, and he is acting accordingly. Gascon is being given cause to pause by rampant crime in Los Angeles and another recall attempt, as well as the recall efforts of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Bodin. Just like Governor Gavin Newsom in his recall, Gascón is just as committed to his agenda, but he is telling the public what they wish to hear in order to skate removal.

Gascón is only working to ensure he can continue to do business as usual. Gascon has not yet worked to ensure victims get justice. This egregious, heartbreaking development just confirms that fact.