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Jody Plauch\u00e9’s parents enrolled him in karate classes when he was ten years old. Jody’s father, Gary Plauch\u00e9, was strong friends with the coach, Jeff Doucet.\n The parents thought Jody would pick up a valuable life skill, but they had no idea that the time he spent taking karate lessons would end up being the worst moment of his life and permanently alter the path his family would take.\n After Jeff abused Jody, he abducted him and transported him to Port Arthur, Texas, and then to Los Angeles. A week later, authorities found him.\n \u201cIt was over several months before he ever started to do anything, and he had already been testing the boundaries,\u201d Jody recalled later as an adult. \u201cHe had begun the grooming process, not just on me but my family. Pedophiles are very good at what they do. One of the things they\u2019ll do with the grooming is test the child\u2019s boundaries.\u201d\n He then continued: \u201cJeff would go, \u2018We need to stretch,\u2019 so he\u2019d be touching around my legs. That way, if he grabbed my private area, he could say, \u2018It was an accident; we were just trying to stretch.\u2019 Or, if we were driving a car, he\u2019d put his hand in my lap and might go, \u2018Oh, I didn\u2019t mean to. I didn\u2019t realize my hands were there.\u2019 That\u2019s that slow, gradual seduction.\u201d\n Gary, Jody’s father, was among many who were unable to move past what had occurred to Jody. He chose to take matters into his own hands since he couldn’t fathom allowing Jeff to live after everything he had done to his son.\n Gary believed his son’s rapist would leave the building at that moment, so he put on a baseball cap and sunglasses and made his way to the Baton Rouge Metro Airport in Louisiana on February 19, 1984. Gary murmured over the phone while he was talking to someone, most likely a friend of his named Jimmy: \u201cHere he comes. You\u2019re about to hear a shot.\u201d\n Gary pulled out his gun and immediately killed Jeff by shooting him in the ear. Reporters covering the news at the time captured the entire episode on camera.\n After identifying Gary Plauch\u00e9, Deputy Mike Barnett said \u201cWhy, Gary? Gary, why?\u201d seconds after television cameras recorded the shooting.\n “After the shooting happened, I was very upset with what my father did,” Jody recalled, speaking out about his father’s actions years after the murder. Jeff’s death was not what I wanted. “I thought he was going to jail, and that was enough for me,” The Advocate said.\n \u00a0 \n \u201cMy dad was absolutely too extreme. He used to tell people, \u2018If anybody ever touches my kid, I\u2019ll kill him.\u2019 I knew he wasn\u2019t kidding. That\u2019s why I couldn\u2019t tell anybody. And that\u2019s exactly what he ended up doing,\u201d Jody told ESPN.\n Gary was taken to court and given a five-year probationary period. Gary didn’t spend any time behind bars, with the exception of the period he was awaiting trial.\n When asked if he regretted killing his son’s rapist in an interview with Yahoo, Gary responded as follows: \u201cNo regrets.\u201d\n In his book Why Gary Why?, Jody, who is currently in his 40s, discusses ways parents can safeguard their kids. He is a sexual assault counselor as well.\n \u201cIt is what it is,\u201d Jody said. \u201cI\u2019ve embraced who I am and what I\u2019ve gone through. That\u2019s why I wrote the book. Again, it\u2019s not about me or what Daddy did. It\u2019s about educating and helping other people.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jody Plauch\u00e9’s parents enrolled him in karate classes when he was ten years old. Jody’s father, Gary Plauch\u00e9, was strong friends with the coach, Jeff Doucet. 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