He Saw His Child’s Rapist Walking Down The Hall, What Happened Next Is…

This scenario details a father getting what could be described as rightful justice for his child, as brutal as it may sound.

It was cameraman Abram McGull that captured the moment that Gary Plauche shot Jeff Doucet at the Baton Rouge Airport on March 16, 1984.

The video clearly shows the graphic scene, where accused kidnapper and child molester Jeffrey Doucet is being escorted through the Baton Rouge airport and eventually shot by Leon Gary Plauche, the father of Doucet’s victim Jody Plauche.

Following the ordeal Gary Plauche stated, “If it had been your child, you would have done the same thing, too.” Given the circumstances, would you have done the same?

To this day, Jody can remember seeing the footage on the 6pm news of his father gunning down the pedophile who had abused him when he was younger.

The abuse began for Jody at the age of 10; Doucet had questioned his young athletes to see who wanted to learn to drive, to which Jody quickly raised his hand in agreement. Shortly after, he found himself sitting on Doucet’s lap steering a 280Z.

At 11 years old, Jody was abducted by his karate coach Jeff Doucet, who, like many other molesters, tested Jody’s boundaries and groomed him for abuse. According to an ESPN report, Doucet had repeatedly abused Jody before kidnapping and taking him to Disneyland.

Jody recalled many years later:

 “But then his hands were in my lap. I’m thinking, ‘What’s going on here? Maybe it’s an accident?’ So I didn’t say anything. But, now, I know he was testing the boundaries. Textbook pedophilia. They all test boundaries.”

Jody Plauche (Photo Credit: Jody Plauche via ESPN)

ESPN details the story:

Doucet would stop practice and send the rest of the kids to 7-Eleven for snacks. “Not you, Jody,” he’d add. “I need to do some extra work with you.” And he’d shepherd him into his back room.

There’s a certain kind of sick manipulation that pedophile coaches use. Jody would come up with all kinds of excuses why he didn’t want to go to karate practice. Doucet would show up at his house anyway and drag him off. Jody’s mom let him go because she thought coaches knew best.

One day, Doucet grabbed the boy and took him on a bus from Port Arthur, Texas, bound for Los Angeles. Jody went missing for 10 days until Doucet finally let him call his mom, collect. Police tracked the call to a motel in Anaheim. Doucet would be extradited back to Baton Rouge and his death.

Gary Plauche Gets Brutal Revenge On His Child's Rapist & It's All Caught On Video

Jeff Doucet (Photo Credit: Jody Plauche via ESPN)

“My dad went to the airport figuring he was going to die,” says the son. “He said either Jeff or him was gonna die that night.”

Jody is still single and says, “I don’t want kids. Do I not want them because of what happened? Probably. And I’m not gay. I like women. I just … my cousin lost his child at 6 years old. I don’t ever want to feel that kind of pain.”

The pain he used to feel every time he looked at his father is gone now, though.

“It’s not right to take someone’s life,” he says, “but when someone’s that bad a person, it doesn’t bother you much in the long run.”

Says June, “Are you kidding? Do you know how many kids weren’t molested because he’s no longer on this earth?”

Jody works in Baton Rouge now, but he still speaks often on child sexual abuse. He’ll join boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart on a panel in late October at, remarkably, Penn State University.

Gary, though, doesn’t speak much at all anymore, after suffering a stroke four years ago. But surely he remembers.

One day, maybe a year after the murder, he and his son were walking along when they saw a man who looked strikingly like Doucet.

Jody was trembling.

“Wow,” he said to his dad. “I really thought it was him!”

Gary paused a second and then said, plainly, “I knew it wasn’t.”

Gary Plauche Gets Brutal Revenge On His Child's Rapist & It's All Caught On Video

Gary Plauche (Photo Credit: Resthaven Obituary)

Sources: Taphaps, ESPN

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