S2: Bonus Ep 3 – Far from Over

Topics featured in this episode maybe disturbing to some listeners. Please take care while listening. I'm Andrea Gunning. This is Betrayal Season two Bonus episode three. We're back with a bonus episode. We were not expecting to produce right now, not for another month at least. Ashley texted us with an urgent update and we wanted to share it with you. My producer, Carrie Hartman took the call.

So ash tell me what news you just received and how it came to you.

I received an email letting me know that Jason was being released.

You know, one of the big issues in this podcast has been about how much incarceration jail time is given to perpetrators, and it seems to me that this is falling short of the sentence that he was given.

Yes, so Jason was sentenced to a year, but with time served, so he'd already served thirty four days I think, so they automatically took that off of his year sentence, and then I don't know for sure, but it seems like he got some type of good behavior reduction in his sentence as well. So it's close to two and a half months, sooner than a year.

How is your family dealing with that? And is he going to be in your community again?

I mean, we all knew he was only spending a year in there, but I think the actuality of it, and he's going to live less than two miles from me and the children, that's really what scares me.

I think we're all just ancis.

I know when Jason was out the first time, the hardest part for both you and for Avea was when she would see him somewhere in public. It would cause terrible anxiety for her if you walked her through how to handle that if it happens now.

No, I haven't even made space for that. I just had a thought of seeing him at our grocery store or something. I think I would turn around and walk out and act like I didn't Sam, And you know, that will be a good conversation to have with Avia because she is gaining back so much of her confidence. It's been so amazing these last you know, two or three months to watch her be confident and stick up for herself. You know, she's in such a good place right now. I almost feel like she's not going to

Is there anything you can do to help with your own anxiety In the short.

Term, I'm having some family and a close friend of mine come stay with us for the next week or two, just because.

I don't know what his mindset is.

I probably never really did know this side of him, and I don't know what his limitations are. I try not to live in the future, but hypothetically we go to court family court and they tell he has no supervised visits with our youngest just because I don't know what to expect. Jason has had such a poor me attitude about all of this. I've lost my family, i

But there's crazy people all over the place.

What should Jason do? What can he do to make you feel comfortable that you are safe and that your kids are safe, and that he will respect your boundaries.

I want him to go away. I want him to move out of the state. His mother lives in another state. I think it's what's best for him. I mean, he still has to live a life, still fairly young, and hopefully that life doesn't include meeting somebody with children. I want to pretend that he actually died because he did that Jason, we knew doesn't exist.

You and Jason share one daughter, your youngest, who is ten. Now, what do you expect in terms of visitation?

If I had my way, I would terminate printal rights. But based off of conversations that I've had with my lawyer, I.

Know that that's not an option.

Because I'm still so angry and really passionate about everything, I thought it was best to hire somebody that can take a stance from like a neutral position to decide what was best for our youngest daughter. He'll make recommendations to the family court on what he thinks is appropriate as far as visitation.

If any Wendy, you think you'll feel really safe again.

Never Maybe when our youngest is, you know, on her own, and she's an adult and she can make her own adult decisions, you know, so she chooses to have a relationship with him at that time, then you know she's an adult.

But I just don't feel safe. I don't think really anybody should.

On Sunday, August sixth, the Victim Notification Network also called Vine, texted Ashley with a message. Jason Litton was released on eight six, twenty three. The release reason is sentenced served in an emergency called nine to one one and after working with Ashley for over a year, Jason is out. If you would like to reach out to the Betrayal team, email us at Betrayal Pod at gmail dot com. That's Betrayal Pod at gmail dot com.

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Of Glass Podcasts, a division of Glass Entertainment Group and partnership with iHeart Podcasts. The show was executive produced by Nancy Glass and Jennifer Fason, hosted and produced by me Andrea Gunning, written and produced by Kerry Hartman, also produced by Ben Fetterman Associate producer Kristin Melcurie. Our iHeart team is Ali Perry and Jessica Krincheck. Audio editing and mixing