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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Child molestation survivor revisits case of his father killing his accused abuser on TV

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Gary Plauché in 1984. Photograph: WBRZ-TV

A child abuse survivor whose father shot his accused abuser to death in plain view of a television news camera in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 1980s says he suggests parents whose children are molested “not to take the law into your own hands and put yourself in a position to be prosecuted”.

Instead, “I would advise [them] … to be there for their child,” Joseph Boyce “Jody” Plauché remarked in a new interview that was recently published by People.

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