A man who claims “voices” told him to molest a 7-year-old in the bathroom of a Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Westminster is lying and trying to manipulate the judicial system, a prosecutor says.
But Jasen Weigman, 25, was not psychotic and could have resisted forcing a boy into a bathroom stall in April 2006, when he locked the stall and performed oral sex on the child, Carroll prosecutor Kelley Galvin argued Tuesday.
“This was a child who was abused, who is now using that abuse to perpetrate,” Galvin said. “He just doesn?t care.”
Weigman?s uncle physically and sexually abused him from when he was 4 to 13 years old, and no one disputes that as a result, he suffers from pedophilia.
After Weigman forced the boy into the stall and molested him, he calmly left the bathroom, returned to the table where his mother and sister were sitting, and went out to see a movie and go shopping for clothes, Galvin said. None of these actions, she said, suggests Weigman was psychotic.
Judge Thomas Stansfield found Weigman guilty Monday of second- and third-degree sex offenses for the molestation.
But he said he needs to determine if Weigman?s mental state will keep him from being criminally responsible. Depending on the ruling, Weigman could serve time in a mental institution rather than a prison.
Judson Larrimore, a Carroll public defender, said that a “deep-seated and long-standing psychosis” caused Weigman to lose touch with reality.
“There?s no ulterior motive for this,” Larrimore said. “He?s struggling.”
With a shaved head and scraggly brown beard, Weigman sat motionless in a bright-orange jail jumpsuit next to his attorney.
Larrimore argued that “something snapped” in Weigman?s mind, forcing him to attack the child.
