In one of the most horrid stories you’ll hear all week, leftist Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon gave a transgender pedophile a shamefully light two-year jail sentence for raping a ten-year-old girl in a Denny’s bathroom. Despicably, all three evening broadcast networks ignored the story, while only Fox News’ Special Report covered it.
Instead of covering this story, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News decided to waste airtime on stories like a snowstorm, a Michigan basketball coach getting into a fistfight, and a Kentucky Derby horse being stripped of its title when it was already dead.
In stark contrast, Special Report anchor Bret Baier led off the coverage of this tragic miscarriage of justice by reporting that the “District Attorney in Los Angeles may be reevaluating his liberal policies tonight when it comes to crime. This comes after a sex offender is heard celebrating how those policies can actually deter justice.”
Baier then brought in national correspondent Bill Melugin to give viewers the details. “Fox News has exclusively obtained in custody phone calls from Hanna Tubbs, a 26-year-old transgender child molester convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a Denny's bathroom in L.A. County in 2014,” Melugin reported.
At the time of the assault, Tubbs was a 17-year-old named James. Melugin continued the report announcing that a “[s]urveillance video showed Tubbs going into that Denny's restroom and fleeing the scene after the assault” and that Tubbs, who had quite a long rap sheet, had almost gotten away with the rape until “DNA from a 2019 arrest linked Tubbs to the crime.”
While in custody, Tubbs bragged to his father during a phone call with him that he would get off easy.
"Don't worry about it,” Tubbs told his father. “I'm a plead out to them and plead guilty. They’re going to stick me on probation. And it's going to be dropped. It's going to be done, done. I won't have to register once or nothing,” Tubbs boasted. When Tubbs’ father asked him what punishment he would receive he said “nothing” and if there was a next time he would leave the state or even the country.
In a statement to Fox News, Tubbs’ underage victim said:
[T]he things he did to me and made me do that day were beyond horrible for a 10-year-old girl to have to go through. That man was very clear-minded and old enough to know what he did that day was wrong and still did it anyway. It's something I struggle with and it's insulting that this is all he was given as punishment. And I want something done about it.
Melguin ended his report by revealing that District Attorney George Gascon claims he never knew about the phone recordings of Tubbs until Fox reached out to his office, and he would have handled the case differently if he knew about them.
He also added that Gascon is “going to be changing policy” and that “moving forward, he will consider prosecuting some juveniles as adults only in extreme circumstances.”
This outrageous instance of bias by omission by the three networks was made possible thanks to lucrative sponsorships from Pacific Life on ABC, Ensure on CBS, & Neutrogena on NBC. Their information is linked.
To read the transcript of the Fox News segment click “expand”:
FNC’s Special Report
2/21/2022
6:30:20 PM ESTBRET BAIER: The heavily criticized District Attorney in Los Angeles may be reevaluating his liberal policies tonight when it comes to crime. This comes after a sex offender is heard celebrating how those policies can actually deter justice. Correspondent Bill Melugin has the shocking audio tonight from Los Angeles.
BILL MELUGIN: Fox News has exclusively obtained in custody phone calls from Hanna Tubbs, a 26-year-old transgender child molester convicted of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in a Denny's bathroom in L.A. County in 2014. At the time Tubbs was a 17-year-old named James weeks away from his 18th birthday. Surveillance video showed Tubbs going into that Denny's restroom and fleeing the scene after the assault. Tubbs has a lengthy criminal history but wasn't connected to the sexual assault until DNA from a 2019 arrest linked Tubbs to the crime. Prosecutors say Tubbs then began identifying as female once taken into custody. Progressive L.A. D.A. George Gascon refused to prosecute Tubbs as an adult for the sexual assault. And last month a judge sentenced Tubbs to just two years in a juvenile detention facility. While in custody in L.A. County before sentencing, Tubbs boasted about a plea deal.
HANNAH TUBBS: Don't worry about it. It’s a strike, but they’re gonna plead, I'm a plead out to them and plead guilty. They’re going to stick me on probation. And it's going to be dropped. It's going to be done, done. I won't have to register once or nothing.
FATHER: For an offender, you won't have to register?
TUBBS: I won't have to do none of that.
FATHER: So what are they going to do you then?
TUBBS: Nothing. If there is a next time I ever get in trouble, I'm leaving the state. I'm leaving the country. I ain’t staying.
MELUGIN: Tubbs went on to make extremely crude disparaging sexual remarks about the victim who is now age 18. She tells Fox she is outraged about Tubbs' light sentence saying in part the things he did to me and made me do that day were beyond horrible for a 10-year-old girl to have to go through. That man was very clear-minded and old enough to know what he did that day was wrong and still did it anyway. It's something I struggle with and it's insulting that this is all he was given as punishment. And I want something done about it. And, Bret, as for L.A. District Attorney George Gascon, he says he never knew about these recordings until we reached out to his office about them last week. And he says he would have handled this case differently if he had heard those tapes. Now, he’s also claiming is he going to be changing policy. Announcing that moving forward, he will consider prosecuting some juveniles as adults only in extreme circumstances. Send it back to you.
