[star-telegram.com]First rapist arrested under Molly Jane’s Law pleads guilty to Arlington sexual assault

A 26-year-old man pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault Wednesday and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office said in a news release. Jessie DeWayne Ray was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in an Arlington park in 2019. Ray recorded the assault on his iPhone and the video was discovered in May 2020 when Tyler police arrested him during a narcotics investigation. When Tyler police entered information from the video into an FBI database known as the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, they found it was a match for the then-unsolved Arlington case.

[fox4news.com]New law inspired by Tarrant County case helps lead to rapist's capture

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Tarrant County judge sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for a 2019 sexual assault. Prosecutors say it was a new law that helped lead to the arrest.

Molly Jane’s Law was passed after the murder of a Fort Worth woman in 2017. Just months after the new law took effect, prosecutors say it was used to track down a sexual assault suspect who pleaded guilty Wednesday. The law was both inspired by a Tarrant County case and used to prosecute a Tarrant County case. It was on a trail at Arlington’s Canyon Park where a man, later identified as Jessie Dewayne Ray, attacked.

[lsu.edu]LSU POLICE DEPARTMENT FIRST IN THE SEC TO IMPLEMENT “SOFT INTERVIEW ROOM”

The LSU Police Department is the first in the SEC to implement a Project Beloved “soft interview room” for victims of trauma or sexual violence. The new room features comfortable lighting, furniture, weighted blankets and items that are intended to help survivors talk to police about what happened.

[star-telegram.com]Texas law named for Fort Worth woman Molly Jane leads to arrest in sexual assault case

Molly Jane Matheson made a difference.

This week, a year after a law was signed in her honor, a man wanted in a September 2019 sexual assault in an Arlington park has been arrested because of it.

Jessie D. Ray was arrested last month in Tyler during a narcotics investigation. After a search of his iPhone showed a video of a sexual assault, law enforcers put details about that attack into the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program database.

[messenger-news.com] Project Beloved Comes to Houston County

With a name like “Project Beloved: the Molly Jane Mission” one would not suspect a heinous crime was behind its creation. Unfortunately, such is the case.

Tracy Matheson, the mother of Molly Jane Matheson and Project Beloved founder, was at the Houston County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, Jan. 14 to discuss the project and to set-up a “soft” interview room at the HCSO.

[dallasnews.com] Rape, murder and a positive DNA test that the cops sat on for weeks

Nothing we as a community can do or say will ever bring back Molly Jane Matheson, 22, or Megan Leigh Getrum, 36, the two vibrant and much-loved Dallas-Fort Worth-area women police say…

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