INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — More than two years after a Jackson County judge granted Jarred Elwood parole instead of prison, the convicted sex offender will finally have to serve his original 10-year sentence.
The 41-year pleaded guilty in September of 2009 to sexually abusing a girl from the time she was six to the time she was 14. At the time, Jackson County prosecutors were expecting Elwood to receive 10 to 15 years in prison.
Instead, Jackson County Judge John Torrence gave Elwood five years probation, outraging the teenage victim and her mother.
On Thursday, both mom and daughter felt vindicated after a different judge revoked Elwood’s probation and ordered him to serve his original ten year sentence. At his parole violation hearing, Elwood admitted he went to Kansas twice in November of 2011 without permission from his parole officer. Elwood refused to say why until faced with a polygraph test.
At his hearing Thursday morning, Elwood admitted he went to Kansas to have sex with a female friend. The woman has a baby and Elwood acknowledges the baby was in the home while he was visiting his female friend.
Under terms of his probation, Elwood isn’t allowed to have unsupervised contact with children 16 or younger.
Judge Michael Manners ruled that Elwood violated his probation by going to Kansas without permission and by allowing himself to be in the presence of a minor.
Elwood’s victim from 2009, whose identity FOX 4 has agreed to protect, says, “If they wouldn’t have requested the polygraph than I don’t thing things would’ve went the way they did because then we wouldn’t have known what he really went to Kansas for.”
The female victim, who’s now a legal adult, also had some words for Judge John Torrence, “I hope he realizes the mistake he made two years ago.”
