Jason Vukovich- He Attacked Sex Offenders.

Jason Vukovich, who was born to a single mother in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 25, 1975, was later adopted by his mother's second husband, Larry Lee Fulton. But Fulton took on the role of Vukovich's abuser rather than his protector.

“Both of my parents were dedicated Christians and had us in every church service available, two or three each week,” Vukovich later wrote in a letter to the Anchorage Daily News. “So you can imagine the horror and confusion I experienced when this man who adopted me began using late, late night ‘prayer’ sessions to molest me.”

In addition to sexual abuse, Fulton used violence against Vukovich. He beat the child with pieces of wood and whipped him with belts. Years later, at Vukovich’s trial, his brother testified about what they had suffered as boys. “We’d roll over on the bunk beds and be up against the wall,” said Joel Fulton. “It was my job to go first so he would leave Jason alone.”

In 1989, their father was accused of second-degree child abuse, but he received no jail time, and, according to Vukovich, nobody ever stopped by to see how the family was doing after that.

Vukovich and his brother fled when they were 16 years old since the abuse had lasted up to that time.

In June 2016, Jason Vukovich committed a number of crimes for which he admitted using the Alaska sex offenders registry to locate his victims. Men who were listed on the sex offender registry for offenses ranging from possessing child pornography to attempting to sexually abuse a kid were threatened, attacked, and robbed by Vukovich.

In accordance with court records, Vukovich visited the residences of the sex offenders listed at those addresses, broke in, physically hurt the residents, and stole from the defendants. In his third robbery, when the victim tried to resist, Vukovich hit him with a hammer four or five times. According to court records, the individual had a severe brain injury.

Vukovich claimed in a letter to the Alaska Dispatch News published after his arrest that he had been sexually abused as a child and had hunted down other individuals who had committed similar crimes. In a plea deal with the government, he admitted guilt to two counts: one of attempted first-degree assault and another of first-degree robbery. In 2018, Vukovich received a 28-year prison term with five years suspended and five years of probation.

Since then, Vukovich has challenged the verdict, arguing that his PTSD should have been taken into account as a mitigating factor for his crimes. Vukovich asserted that the court should have taken into account the fact that the post-traumatic stress disorder was brought on by childhood sexual abuse when he was sentenced.

Vukovich claimed in his appeal that the court should have taken into account that he was "under some degree of pressure" when he committed these offenses. " Vukovich was diagnosed with the disorder five years ago, and a doctor testified that Vukovich’s behaviors “were consistent with someone who suffered from PTSD," a summary of the appeal states.

Because Vukovich only offered insufficient information demonstrating that he was under stress, coercion, threat, or compulsion when he committed the crimes, the court determined that he did not meet the requirements for a statutory mitigator.

The court penalty, according to Vukovich, should be appealed because it was disproportionate and wasn't given with the intention of helping him get well. Once more, the court ruled that Vukovich's case was unpersuasive since he was unable to demonstrate that his acts were "primarily the outcome of untreated PTSD."