Bill To Lengthen Sentences Of Sex Offenders Named For Henryetta Murder Victims Passes House

The parents of two of the teenagers murdered in Henryetta last May are glad a bill has passed the state house that would create tougher penalties for child sex offenders.

Convicted sex offender Jesse McFadden murdered the two teenagers, Ivy Webster and Brittany Brewer, along with his wife Holly McFadden, and her three children, Tiffany Guess, Michael Mayo, and Rylee Allen, before killing himself. 

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The bill is called “Knight’s Law” and is named after the Henryetta Knights, where the teenagers went to school.

The fathers of Webster and Brewer say Knight’s Law won’t change the past, but if it’s signed into law, it could save the lives of other children.

Knight’s Law would make anyone convicted of six different sex crimes serve 100% of their sentence.

“That’s the whole purpose of the Knight’s Law,” said Justin Webster, Ivy’s father. “It’s to show our government that people want stronger federal guidelines for states to follow to have stronger sentencing and punishment for child sex crimes.”

Webster says he won’t stop fighting until new laws are passed that close the loopholes that allowed Jesse McFadden to be released from prison after serving time for rape, even though he was facing a new charge of sexting a teenager.

He hopes people will call their legislators and spread the word outside the state.

“I don’t plan on stopping in Oklahoma,” said Webster. “We have a lot of support country-wide and we have people creating their own Knight’s Law teams within their own states and are reaching out to their representatives to hopefully change laws in their states.”

Brewer’s father, Nathan, says they’ve been working hard the past 10 months, and he is glad to see the bill pass the House.

“It was amazing, wonderful,” said Brewer. “From seeing it from the beginning all the way through and then passing it yesterday, it just brought tears to my eyes.”

He says he knows Brewer, Webster, Guess, Mayo, and Allen would be proud of the work that’s been done- but the fight isn’t over yet.

“I wish it would have happened years prior and I wouldn’t be going through what I went through,” said Brewer. “But you can’t change the past. So I feel excited and great that this is going forward to protect the kids in the future.”

The bill now heads to the Senate.

If it passes there, it will head to Governor Stitt’s desk.

They hope people who support the bill, will also march at the State Capitol when it’s up for a vote in the Senate.

For more information about the Knight’s Law team, click here.