Speaker 1: Topics featured in this episode maybe disturbing to some listeners.
Speaker 1: Please take care while listening. I'm Andrea Gunning. This is
Speaker 1: Betrayal Season two Bonus episode three. We're back with a
Speaker 1: bonus episode. We were not expecting to produce right now,
Speaker 1: not for another month at least. Ashley texted us with
Speaker 1: an urgent update and we wanted to share it with you.
Speaker 1: My producer, Carrie Hartman took the call.
Speaker 2: So ash tell me what news you just received and
Speaker 2: how it came to you.
Speaker 3: I received an email letting me know that Jason was
Speaker 3: being released.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the big issues in this podcast
Speaker 2: has been about how much incarceration jail time is given
Speaker 2: to perpetrators, and it seems to me that this is
Speaker 2: falling short of the sentence that he was given.
Speaker 3: Yes, so Jason was sentenced to a year, but with
Speaker 3: time served, so he'd already served thirty four days I think,
Speaker 3: so they automatically took that off of his year sentence,
Speaker 3: and then I don't know for sure, but it seems
Speaker 3: like he got some type of good behavior reduction in
Speaker 3: his sentence as well. So it's close to two and
Speaker 3: a half months, sooner than a year.
Speaker 2: How is your family dealing with that? And is he
Speaker 2: going to be in your community again?
Speaker 3: I mean, we all knew he was only spending a
Speaker 3: year in there, but I think the actuality of it,
Speaker 3: and he's going to live less than two miles from
Speaker 3: me and the children, that's really what scares me. I
Speaker 3: think we're all just ancis.
Speaker 2: I know when Jason was out the first time, the
Speaker 2: hardest part for both you and for Avea was when
Speaker 2: she would see him somewhere in public. It would cause
Speaker 2: terrible anxiety for her if you walked her through how
Speaker 2: to handle that if it happens now.
Speaker 3: No, I haven't even made space for that. I just
Speaker 3: had a thought of seeing him at our grocery store
Speaker 3: or something. I think I would turn around and walk
Speaker 3: out and act like I didn't Sam, And you know,
Speaker 3: that will be a good conversation to have with Avia
Speaker 3: because she is gaining back so much of her confidence.
Speaker 3: It's been so amazing these last you know, two or
Speaker 3: three months to watch her be confident and stick up
Speaker 3: for herself. You know, she's in such a good place
Speaker 3: right now. I almost feel like she's not going to
Speaker 3: let it pierce her vibe. She's happy, she's getting ready
Speaker 3: to start her senior year in high school. He's hanging
Speaker 3: out with friends again, and you know, doing all those
Speaker 3: normal things that a seventeen year old should be doing.
Speaker 3: And so I just really hope that when the time comes,
Speaker 3: that she sees him, because I think it's inevitable. I
Speaker 3: hope she has the confidence to look at him straight
Speaker 3: in the eye and flip him off, you know, something
Speaker 3: that lets him know that he has no power over
Speaker 3: her anymore.
Speaker 2: Is there anything you can do to help with your
Speaker 2: own anxiety In the short.
Speaker 3: Term, I'm having some family and a close friend of
Speaker 3: mine come stay with us for the next week or two,
Speaker 3: just because I don't know what his mindset is. I
Speaker 3: probably never really did know this side of him, and
Speaker 3: I don't know what his limitations are. I try not
Speaker 3: to live in the future, but hypothetically we go to
Speaker 3: court family court and they tell he has no supervised
Speaker 3: visits with our youngest just because I don't know what
Speaker 3: to expect. Jason has had such a poor me attitude
Speaker 3: about all of this. I've lost my family, i lost
Speaker 3: my career, I lost my home. Now the only thing
Speaker 3: that has him tied to our life is our youngest
Speaker 3: daughter and I just don't know what he's capable of.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think he'd want to do anything
Speaker 3: to jeopardize his freedom. But there's crazy people all over
Speaker 3: the place.
Speaker 2: What should Jason do? What can he do to make
Speaker 2: you feel comfortable that you are safe and that your
Speaker 2: kids are safe, and that he will respect your boundaries.
Speaker 3: I want him to go away. I want him to
Speaker 3: move out of the state. His mother lives in another state.
Speaker 3: I think it's what's best for him. I mean, he
Speaker 3: still has to live a life, still fairly young, and
Speaker 3: hopefully that life doesn't include meeting somebody with children. I
Speaker 3: want to pretend that he actually died because he did
Speaker 3: that Jason, we knew doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: You and Jason share one daughter, your youngest, who is ten. Now,
Speaker 2: what do you expect in terms of visitation?
Speaker 3: If I had my way, I would terminate printal rights.
Speaker 3: But based off of conversations that I've had with my lawyer,
Speaker 3: I know that that's not an option. Because I'm still
Speaker 3: so angry and really passionate about everything, I thought it
Speaker 3: was best to hire somebody that can take a stance
Speaker 3: from like a neutral position to decide what was best
Speaker 3: for our youngest daughter. He'll make recommendations to the family
Speaker 3: court on what he thinks is appropriate as far as visitation.
Speaker 2: If any Wendy, you think you'll feel really safe again.
Speaker 3: Never Maybe when our youngest is, you know, on her own,
Speaker 3: and she's an adult and she can make her own
Speaker 3: adult decisions, you know, so she chooses to have a
Speaker 3: relationship with him at that time, then you know she's
Speaker 3: an adult. But I just don't feel safe. I don't
Speaker 3: think really anybody should.
Speaker 4: On Sunday, August sixth, the Victim Notification Network also called Vine,
Speaker 4: texted Ashley with a message. Jason Litton was released on
Speaker 4: eight six, twenty three. The release reason is sentenced served
Speaker 4: in an emergency called nine to one one and after
Speaker 4: working with Ashley for over a year, Jason is out.
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