Meet Adam Jakub Wieser, or at least meet his mugshot. If Mr Wieser is in fact guilty of the charges against him — and he is innocent until proven guilty — I would hope that you would never meet him in person, unless you happen to be a prison guard.

Charge: Lexington child care center director sexually assaulted 4-year-old in his office

by Valarie Honeycutt Spears | Monday, July 10, 2023 | 8:14 AM EDT | Updated: 12:20 PM EDT

A director at a Lexington child care and education center has been charged with raping a 4-year-old girl in his office, according to a police citation.

Adam Wieser, 27, was charged Friday with first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse of a child under 12 in a May 1 incident at the victim’s school. He was in the Fayette County Detention Center Monday, according to jail records.

Sharon Price, director of the Community Action Council which oversees the child care center, said the organization considers the safety and security of Head Start students its top priority. The Community Action Council received a report about the site director at One Parent Scholar House and immediately removed him from the position, Price said.

The Community Action Council made a formal report to the appropriate regulatory agencies, she said. . . . .

On Friday, the council learned that criminal charges were brought against Wieser as a result of the ensuing investigation.

The police citation said Wieser engaged in sexual intercourse with a 4-year-old girl and also had sexual contact with her. He touched her inappropriately, the citation said.

According to the Fayette County Detention Center website, Mr Wieser remains incarcerated, with bail set at $150,000.

Mr Wieser is charged with:

• KRS §510.040 Rape, First Degree. Rape in the first degree is a Class B Felony, unless the victim is under 12 years old or receives a serious physical injury, in which case it becomes a Class A Felony. Under KRS §532.060, the sentence for a Class A Felony is not less than twenty (20) years nor more than fifty (50) years, or life imprisonment.
• KRS §510.110 Sexual Abuse, First Degree. Sexual abuse in the first degree is a Class D Felony, unless the victim is under 12 years old, in which case it becomes a Class C Felony. Under KRS §532.060, the sentence for a Class C Felony is not less than five (5) years nor more than ten (10) years imprisonment.

According to the Detention Center’s records, Mr Weiser, who will ‘celebrate’ his 28^th birthday this coming Friday, is 6’3″ tall and weighs 215 lb. To a 4-year-old girl, he must have seemed a veritable giant! If he is actually guilty, he could get out of jail when he is still just 48 years old, and even that assumes that he would not have early release credits.

If this gentleman is guilty, he should be sentenced to the maximum of 50 years on the first degree rape charge, and 10 years on the first degree sexual abuse charge, with the sentences to run consecutively. Everything that can be done under the law to keep this man person locked up for the rest of his miserable life needs to be done.

And the last thing that should happen is for the Commonwealth’s Attorney to offer him a lenient plea deal.

We have previously noted the jailbreak of Nasir Grant, 24, and Ameen Hurst, 18, from Philadelphia’s Industrial Correctional Center, and how other people are now facing charges for aiding them. Mr Grant, who was not previously facing charges which would have kept him locked up for life, was recaptured by federal marshals just a few miles from the jail, and now Mr Hurst, who was looking at life in prison, is back behind bars:

The second man who escaped from a Philadelphia jail last week was captured Wednesday morning, police say

Ameen Hurst was arrested by U.S. Marshals on the 6100 block of Washington Avenue in West Philadelphia, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.

by Chris Palmer | Wednesday, May 17, 2023

The second of two men who escaped from a city jail last week was captured in West Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, police said, ending a 10-day search for a murder suspect whose unprecedented breakout had become an ongoing concern for law enforcement.

Ameen Hurst, 18, accused of committing four homicides as well as other crimes, was arrested by U.S. Marshals on the 6100 block of Washington Avenue, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said on Twitter.

Well, at least Mr Hurst was further away from the jail than was Mr Grant when he was captured, but just how plain stupid do you have to be to have been hanging around the city in which you are being sought? Yeah, life would be tougher for someone like him in a place he didn’t know, but you’d think that he’d have headed for Baltimore or Tuscaloosa or a rural area in Mississippi, someplace to blend in and not really expected to be. And if it would have been tougher for him someplace with which he was unfamiliar, it probably wouldn’t be as tough as jail!

Of course, the same could be said about the people who, allegedly, helped the two goons escape in the first place: they are just plain stupid!

Further down:

Hurst is accused of killing four people and critically injuring two others in three separate shootings in less than three months. One of those homicides occurred near the front gates of another city jail: the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. Police say in March 2021, Hurst killed 20-year-old Rodney Hargrove an hour after Hargrove had been released from the facility, and while he was waiting outside for relatives to pick him up.

Authorities now believe the shooting was a case of mistaken identity. In an affidavit of probable cause for Hurst’s arrest, prosecutors said that while he was facing charges for an earlier murder, he essentially confessed to shooting Hargrove while talking to a relative on a recorded phone line.

Anyone who has ever watched a cop show on television knows that calls from prison can be recorded, yet Mr Hurst allegedly confessed to a murder on a recorded telephone call. Yeah, he’s just plain stupid. Unfortunately, his stupidity has (allegedly) sent four other men untimely to their eternal rewards.

And Hurst is accused of shooting four men sitting in a car on the 1400 block of North 76th Street in March 2021 — a crime police believe was tied to an ongoing feud between neighborhood groups. Naquan Smith, 24, and Tamir Brown, 17 were killed, and two others were seriously wounded.

And here we go again, with The Philadelphia Inquirer being too stupidly #woke to tell the truth! “(A)n ongoing feud between neighborhood groups”? Why can’t the Inky just use the work gangs, because everyone knows that’s what they are.

There’s more at the Inquirer’s original, with more details about Mr Hurst’s alleged crimes.

Who knows, the two escaped and recaptured criminals could have a dozen illegitimate spawn out in Philly’s rowhouse neighborhoods, and the three who helped them escape could have reproduced as well, but at least Mr Hurst seems to have removed himself from any further pollution of the gene pool.

The escape of Nasir Grant, 24, and Ameen Hurst, 18, from Philadelphia’s Industrial Correctional Center last Sunday has caused both concern and amusement in the City of Brotherly Love, concern that two dangerous men, especially Mr Hurst, charged with four homicides, were on the loose, and amusement that the seriously understaffed jail didn’t even know that the two men had bolted for three shifts.

Just a few days later, 21-year-old Xianni Stallings, who had been “released from jail earlier this year after charges connected to a stabbing she was accused of participating in fell apart due to a lack of evidence,” decided that she wanted to go back behind bars for allegedly helping Mr Hurst escape, and the expression on her face in her latest booking photo clearly shows an, “Oh, what the f(ornicate) have I done?” look.

Mr Grant, who was not facing charges that would have kept him locked up for the rest of his miserable life, was recaptured by federal marshals after just four days on the lam. He didn’t even ‘lam’ very far, as he was picked up in North Philly.

And now a second person has been charged with helping Messrs Grant and Hurst escape:

Suspect in fatal beating at Pat’s Steaks allegedly helped inmates escape prison

Jose Alberto Flores-Huerta is expected to be charged with crimes including conspiracy and escape, police said.

by Chris Palmer | Friday, May 12, 2023 | 5:38 PM EDT

José Alberto Flores-Huerta, via Metro Philadelphia. Click to enlarge.

A 35-year-old man jailed on murder charges is expected to face new charges for serving as a lookout for the two men who escaped from a Philadelphia jail this week, authorities said Friday.Jose Alberto Flores-Huerta — incarcerated for allegedly participating in a fatal beating outside Pat’s King of Steaks in 2021 — is expected to be charged with crimes including conspiracy and escape, the Police Department said in a statement.

Police declined to provide additional details about Flores-Huerta’s alleged role in the breakout. He is the second person in two days to be accused of helping Nasir Grant, 24, and Ameen Hurst, 18, break out of the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center on Sunday. The pair sneaked out through a hole in a chain-link fence, police said.

The announcement of the impending charges came just hours after Grant was captured in North Philadelphia on Thursday night by U.S. Marshals while disguised in women’s clothing. Grant was arraigned on a new count of escape Friday morning, and bail was set at $10 million.

There’s more at the original, and at least from the story, and the charges he faces, it would seem that Mr Flores-Huerta isn’t necessarily a great guy. But a few paragraphs further down, I found this:

Flores-Huerta, of South Philadelphia, has been jailed since 2021, when he was charged with taking part in the fatal beating of Isidro Cortes outside Pat’s Steaks in South Philadelphia. Authorities said Flores-Huerta and several other men also assaulted Cortes’ father and another man during the brawl, which followed a CONCACAF Champions League soccer game in Chester between the Philadelphia Union and Club América, a team from Mexico City.

At a preliminary hearing last year, Flores-Huerta’s lawyer contended that two other men — who have not been caught — were primarily responsible for striking Isidro Cortes. But a judge was not persuaded, and she ordered Flores-Huerta held for trial on counts including murder, conspiracy, and aggravated assault. He was denied bail, and a trial is scheduled for the fall.

Why, exactly, is Mr Flores-Huerta scheduled for trial two years after he was arrested? What about his right to a reasonably speedy trial? Did the prosecution, which apparently presented enough evidence that the judge ordered the suspect held without bail, delay proceedings, of was it the defense? What if, after he is finally tried, Mr Flores-Huerta is acquitted? If that is the case, he will have spent two years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit!

This is one of the travesties which has occurred in this country as a result of the COVID-19 panicdemic: the judicial system pretty much ground to a halt, and prisoners all across the United States were held in legal limbo, and some of them in jail, because trials were so greatly delayed, and it seems as though nobody cared.

In Robert Stacy McCain’s “Everything Is White Supremacy: Inside America’s New Maoist ‘Struggle Sessions’“, I noted a smaller part of something he quoted:

In their “transformative-justice” workshop, my students learned to name “harms.” This language, and the framework it expresses, come out of the prison-abolition movement. Instead of matching crimes with punishments, abolitionists encourage us to think about harms and how they can be made right, often through inviting a broader community to discern the impact of harms, the reasons they came about, and paths forward. In the language of the anti-racism workshop, a harm becomes anything that makes you feel not quite right.

There’s a serial rapist loose in Philadelphia, with four reported sexual assaults near the Broad Street SEPTA line, and, with rape being a crime often not reported, I have to wonder what the perp’s real number of assaults is.

So, I have to ask: how can the “harm” this rapist has done to at least four women in the City of Brotherly Love “be made right”? How can the “harm” done to the 46 people murdered so far this year in Philly “be made right”? Yeah, I can think of one way, involving a rope and an oak tree, but the prison abolitionists would not support that alternative, would they? Continue reading →