KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who blamed slavery and racism for his plight in life will die in prison after being sentenced to consecutive life sentences for raping and killing his teenage daughter.
A Jackson County judge sentenced Jerry Bausby, 43, to consecutive life sentences for the March 21, 2016, murder of his daughter, Daizsa.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker had asked the judge to hand down the maximum sentences after Jerry was convicted in July by a jury on one count of second-degree murder as well as one count each of sodomy, incest and sexual abuse in the first degree.
Bausby, 18, was a senior at the Kansas City Public School District's Southwest Early College Campus/Early College Academy when she was found dead in a room at the Four Acres Mote in the 800 block of Hickman Mills Drive in Kansas City, Missouri.
Police linked Jerry to the killing through DNA evidence.
Several people, including her sister, LaKendra Bausby, testified during Jerry's sentencing. LaKendra told the judge that she and her sister had tough lives, according to a news release from the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.
"She wanted to prove to the world that she was worthy of being loved ...," LaKendra said in court. "She didn't deserve what Jerry did to her.
Daizsa was a star at her school, active in cheerleading and the performing arts, according to a news release from the school at the time of her death.
"She was an inspiration,'' Southwest Principal Earl Williams in a May statement. "She was a mentor to all of our kids through the activities she was involved with and as they move forward, they will remember her spirit and wisdom.''
Jerry spoke for 45 minutes, mentioning his daughter only once and blaming "racism and what he viewed as slavery in modern America as forming him into what he was," according to a release from the Jackson County prosecutor.
jdshowtime12 on September 24th, 2019 at 10:33 UTC »
Why was he allowed to speak for 45 minutes? And bitches about being a slave during that time? What a stupid ass motherfucker.
UnknownExo on September 24th, 2019 at 05:09 UTC »
I don't understand how someone can push their fatherly instincts aside and commit some of the most evil actions a human can do to another.
Mazziemom on September 24th, 2019 at 01:32 UTC »
This one... Gets to me. I've read about child abuse for work for a long time and I have an emotional barrier that's pretty hard to crack. But this poor girl... She was old enough to be free of this monster and he brought his brand of evil to her. To be there, at the doorway to the future, and to have this mountain of shit wrapped in human form destroy you, feels so incredibly unfair to me. Not that abuse of younger children is fair in any way, but this case just messed with my head because she should have been a success story. She was old enough to make it out and he fucking stole that from her. I pray that he lives every day in agony until he's 100. Every single day in pure unadulterated agony. I thought I was above hate but... I think maybe this proves I have the capacity for it still.