Jennifer Thurman & Steven Arthur Like Girls
February 24, 2008 by impqueen
Porterville, CA — Jennifer Thurman and Steven Arthur like girls. A lot. Especially girls between the ages of nine and twelve. They also like to keep the evidence, having filmed themselves molesting the girls. Thurman, 32, and ArthurArthur reviews
, 31, were romantically involved until a few weeks ago, and most of the “vast collection” of images and video were made within the last six months. Four victims have been identified; police are working to find a fifth child and say there may be many more.
The pedophile couple may have drugged the girls, although police would not comment, saying only that some of the girls may have experienced “something weird” in the home but might not fully realize what had happened to them. Arthur worked as an EMT, so may have had access to medications.
Police served a search warrant on Thursday after getting a tip from a neighbor, and found 50 to 60 DVDs, thousands of images, a computer hard drive and a digital camera. While neither Thurman or Arthur are sex offenders, Arthur does have a “previous criminal history”, according to news reports. Most of the victims are believed to be third to sixth grade girls who live in the neighborhood. Neighbors report that the couple moved in together last fall and that there were children living in the home.
Arthur and Thurman are being held without bail in the Tulare County Jail on multiple charges of possessing child pornography, child molestation, and rape.
Thanks to Kathy and Sassymom08!
6:07 pm on February 24th, 2008
I’ll reiterate my primary refrain in cases where children are abused by strangers: Where the HELL were the PARENTS?!?! I know where my kids are, where they go, who they’re with, and when they’ll be home. And by where they are, I mean they only leave the house if they have a destination I can check on (and I do); and by where they go, see previous statement; and by who they’re with, I mean they don’t leave my sight with anyone I haven’t known WELL for at least two years; and by when they’ll be home, I mean if they are 5 seconds late, I am on the phone calling, or in my car actively looking for them (sometimes both, since the advent of cellphones). (I give them the 5 seconds leeway in case they trip coming up the porch steps, and have to pause to staunch the bleeding from a scraped knee.)LOL.
But, seriously, they think there are at least 5 children who have been abused, and all of them are under the age of 12? What were the parents of the children doing? Getting a brain transplant? Having an out-of-mind experience? Smoking crack? My oldest is in college 200 miles from home, and I know more about her whereabouts and activities than these parents seem to know about their kids who live with them. Why is this?! Do parents just assume that it can’t happen to their children, because they don’t want it to? Grow up and join the land of the living! All you have to do is pick up the local paper (not even a national syndication, anymore), to know that there are no longer any racial, class, or religious boundaries for this type of crime. Good lord people – you had the kids, now take responsibility for them, and keep them safe.
Oh, and, I think they should put both of these ass-munch idiots who hurt these kids in general population of the nearest prison, with signs superglued to their backs that say “I’m a baby-raper! Do me! I deserve it!” And don’t issue them any pants for their prison uniforms, either. And have it filmed by one of the inmates as well. Call it what you will, I call it justice…..
6:12 pm on February 24th, 2008
Well said! I couldn’t agree with you more, where the hell are the parents that are supposed to be protecting their children!
7:34 pm on February 24th, 2008
How can it take this long for this stuff to surface? How were they luring all these girls into their home and doing “weird stuff”? What were they providing the kids that made it seem worthwhile to keep their mouths shut — a bribe or threats? Sad, sad story.
7:41 pm on February 24th, 2008
I’m gonna bet one of Harley_Tech’s gum wrappers that a lot of these girls had a little Jesus Juice or a GHB cocktail. I have a source who tells me that the girls were all unconscious, so some of them may not even be aware they were molested.
7:54 pm on February 24th, 2008
Better idea? Give them up!! There are many, many, many childless couples that would happily and gratefully take over in the parenting department. There is no shame in admitting that you are not equipped to handle the “work” involved with raising children. It must be some kind of primal thing that keeps these people pretending to be parents.
Seriously, we need to completely overhaul the foster care system so that these innocent souls can find the care and nurturing that they deserve, without all the bureaucratic bullshit that currently goes on. As soon as possible….and permanently ~period~
I’m just saying….
9:18 pm on February 24th, 2008
Wrybread – sadly, probably both were provided. These sorry, scumbag, shit-for-brains psychos (say that five times fast) have no shame when it comes to luring these kids. They’ll do whatever it takes to get what they want.
I think the death penalty is waaay underused. If we started frying them for hurting these innocent kids, maybe it would cut down on the instances of such abuse.
9:26 pm on February 24th, 2008
Colomom:
I don’t think it’s any sort of ‘primal thing’ causing these people to keep their kids. That term sounds too much like instinct, but the natural instinct of parents is (or should be) to protect their kids. The people who abuse/neglect their kids are simply selfish. Most of them use their kids as a source of stress relief (abuse), or passive sympathy generation (”see how I give up my time for these kids – don’t you feel bad for me that I have to do this” = neglect). They use their kids for self-gratification, in whatever way they can. Selfish, selfish bastards.
9:41 pm on February 24th, 2008
Thanks for the new picture. He is now an ugly perverted asshat. Thank you, Imp my Queen. Now I can hate him more easily.
9:52 pm on February 24th, 2008
Hey, Morbid even fixed ‘em so they’d be bigger and less blurry, so you can see the ugly perverted asshattedness.
10:13 pm on February 24th, 2008
Pretty sure this is her Myspace:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=161802664
11:05 pm on February 24th, 2008
Ya notice her age? 17. Trying to lure in some younger friends?
3:31 am on February 25th, 2008
Is that a kid in the backseat just over her shoulder?
5:16 am on February 25th, 2008
steve’s girl has got problems – I agree with angel ditto !
I read there were children living in that house.
probably lured in their 10 ?? year old daughter’s friends on trust. must be alot of money in doing this to take the risk… the my space page does say 17… and the story above says IDIOTS… you’re old enough to know better to have that junk laying around … you deserve death for being STUPID alone.
8:02 am on February 25th, 2008
Just wait a couple of years – these kind of home movies will have their own Acadamy Awards category. This deviance too quickly becomes mainstream. I blame the internet n’ stuff… Where has all the zero tolerance gone?
another bunch of kids fucked up by trailer trash…
8:34 am on February 25th, 2008
I don’t think these are actual pedophiles. I think they are just ugly swingers.
As a necrophiliac, let me tell you how difficult it can be to have sex with a limp body. A 115 lb. female feels more like 180 when they go limp.
Look at the pictures of this couple. They are hideous. There is no way they are going to lure consenting adults into their bed, and there is no way they could manage the heft of a passed-out adult.
I think they were actually going ofter the oldest kids they could still maneuver around the bed. It seems like 9-12 is the period of greatest maturity to weight ratio.
Goddamn, I should have been a detective!
9:14 am on February 25th, 2008
You’re not!? What the fuck was up with that pat-down you gave me the other day!!!!! O_o
10:57 am on February 25th, 2008
Gotta love Swivel…..
11:12 am on February 25th, 2008
Damn those women, uncooperative even when unconscious. What’s a man to do?
11:28 am on February 25th, 2008
Awards? I’ve got an award for them right now. It’s called the ‘boot up your ass award’. And I would be happy to present it to them multiple times. Every day. With malicious pleasure…….I need the exercise anyway. What’s wrong with these goober smoochers, anyway?
9:17 pm on March 18th, 2008
Just so you know, I should never have to justify myself but people like you make me feel the need. I did nothing wrong, I did not hurt my daughter yet you feel the need to insult the parents. These two scum bags did this to our little girls. I can only speak for myself when I tell you that I KNEW where my daugter was when this was happening. She was joining in on her first slumber party!! Why did she not tell me? She did not know. They drugged them and THEY did wrong!!! My daughter went over there to be a kid. I took her there to spend the night with girls her age. Do I hate myself? More than any of you can!!! Do I think I am a bad mom? Yes because I did not see it coming. DO I feel guilty? Everytime I look at her. My children are my life. This man was a public servant as I am, did I think he was capable? No I would have killed him first! So all you moms out there that never made this deathly mistake, I am envious and I am jealous. This mistake has made me suffer and given me visuals that will never go away. MY daughter still knows very little and I want to keep it that way because it is easier for her. But all you that persecute me, stand back, because you could never do the damage to me that I am already doing to myself!
9:47 pm on March 18th, 2008
Justme, unless your name is Jennifer Thurman i don’t think anyone here was talking shit about you.
I think it’s pretty clear from this case that the bad guys are Steven Arthur and Jennifer Thurman, not the parents of the kids who were hurt. As far as I can tell, you’ve done nothing wrong and nothing to be ashamed of. I’m sorry you felt attacked – people are going to have questions when cases like this arise, because they arise all too often. I appreciate your clarification, and I’m so sorry for your daughter and your family, and for you. This really isn’t about your parenting – it’s about the monsters that hurt your child.
I hope she is doing as well as can be expected, and that you are both getting help to deal with this. If there’s anything we can do to help you or your child, please let us know.
10:04 pm on March 18th, 2008
Um, Imp? Read posts 1 through 5. I totally understand why this poster is feeling attacked for something she could not possibly have prevented — short of keeping her child with her 24/7 for her whole life.
Justme, I am sorry for the pain this is causing your family. I hope your daughter is well, and will get the help she needs to walk away from this with her dignity and sense of self intact. As parents, we can’t be everywhere and see everything, much as we’d like to.
Sending all good thoughts to the kids abused by these scumbuckets.
10:05 pm on March 18th, 2008
justme
Mar 18, 2008 at 9:17 pm –
First let me say welcome to the Demon, I really wish it were not these circumstances that brought you here. I truly feel for you and your daughter, and wish you both the very best in your healing.
Please understand from our side of things that we read and see this stuff all the time here on the Demon. It really does get to us at times and we all vent our frustrations at the evil we see brought down on poor defenseless kids and others.
I think your situation will again prove to us that even when the most care and precautions are taken to protect our children, they still are at risk when evil lurks among us.
I don’t believe anyone here intends to persecute you personally for having your child terrorized by perverts. I believe what you saw and read is at least partially that venting of frustrations I talked about earlier.
Understand that we have dozens of people show up here after they, their family, or someone they know ends up in the headlines. Remember that when you read my and others comments because we all read those people’s comments with more than a little skepticism until we get to know you a bit. My comments are based on taking your message at face value.
I hope that you get the needed counseling for your daughter and the rest of your family.
If you did (and I’m not saying you didn’t) take reasonable precautions to keep your daughter safe and these evil people still got to her, then you have to understand that THEY are the only ones responsible for this evil act, and not you.
I believe you when you say you tried hard to protect your daughter.
I know that loving mothers and fathers will always ask themselves how “they” let this kind of thing happen to their kids, but your message suggest to me that you didn’t “let” this happen. Evil people made this happen to your kids, not you!
Torturing yourself is not going to take your daughters pain or experiences away. Getting the right help from professionals is a better choice in my opinion. Be strong for her!!
My very best wishes for you and your family!!
R
10:12 pm on March 18th, 2008
Just Me, I think you probably were bothered by what Angel said, and I’ll leave to Angel any response she wants to make. I’m not a parent, but I think if I were, I would like be able to read about a terrible incident like this and believe that what I’m doing as a parent would protect them from something similar, and maybe that’s what Angel feels. However, like I said, I’m not a parent, so I’m only speculating. I do know how horrified I feel about what these people did, how my heart aches for the children, and how immensely sad I am that you are punishing yourself. We read about the parents who don’t do what is right for their kids, and many of us had parents that didn’t do right by us, and so to see a loving mother beating herself over the fact that there are nasty creatures on this earth masquerading as humans…that’s almost unbearable. I know for a fact that I speak for many here who are holding your daughter up in our hearts and in our prayers. If through the lines and wires that connect computers and phones and other communication devices we could send our support to you in a way that would make even a tiny difference to you and your family…we would.
2:46 am on March 19th, 2008
Yeah, I did go back and re-read, and I can see that too. I responded based on what I’d written, and I didn’t re-read other poster’s comments. That’ll teach me!
We really can be pretty rough on parents, even when it’s not the parents doing the abusing. And knowing that most of this occurred at a slumber party type environment, and that the girls were drugged, makes a big difference. Most people are not going to expect that their kids are going to be drugged and molested at a slumber party with several other girls there, when the mother’s in the home and seems “normal”, when the dad is an emergency medical responder and seems “normal”.
My initial source had told me that the girls were drugged. I’m glad, in a way, to see that verified here. It doesn’t lessen what was done to these girls, but it does lessen, maybe, a little of the trauma of the victims remembering – because chances are, they won’t. It does nothing to help the parents, who realize their girls could have been killed by overdose as well as raped.
So we don’t have a neighborhood full of people who weren’t watching their kids – we have a neighborhood full of people who sent their daughters to a party at their friend’s house, and only much later did it turn out that anything was amiss. That’s one any of us could have missed, and so my apologies to the parents of the victims in this case – except, of course, Steven Arthur and Jennifer Thurman.
7:24 pm on December 15th, 2008
I know that this case is old to most of you, but to me it is still very much a part of my everyday functioning. I wanted to update that these scumbags go to court Wednesday to see if there will be a trial. A trial will cause our girls to have to go in front of the judge and this trash. My daughter is scared. Not because of anything other than being on the stand, but I pray that does not happen. These animals disgust me. My daughter and I are best friends and we have been robbed of our being able to talk. What bothers me the most in this world is the one thing I cannot bring to her attention. The pictures and the video that they took of my daughter are burned into my memory, and the words the detective said “sorry you had to see those, but we did not show you the worst ones” THERE WAS WORSE!?!?! My daughter, who I could talk to about anything, can never know that. These people not only molested them, they caused nightmares for all involved. And though the girls do NOT remember what happened, they know something did. The counselor we go to told me that this can cause false memories later. WHY?? What kind of kicks did you get from that? Hatred is a harsh word, but does not come close to how I feel about them. Just an update.
9:34 pm on February 18th, 2009
I have not forgotten abou this sickening coupleI I came to this site to find out what happened. I cannot fathom your pain but as a mother of 1 daughter I can empathize. I do not understand how someone can actually do this to a child, it is beyond my reasoning. Why do they not see it as totally sinful and outright disgusting. I am so sorry your daughter had to go through this. I pray that she continue to not remember anything. What was the outcome of the trial you speak of in Dec? Did they prison these monsters?
6:27 am on February 20th, 2009
They’ll probably go to a “special needs” yard where they are with other pedo’s and eat poached eggs, ham, and hash browns (ala rooty tooty fresh~n~fruity), don’t work and sleep all day, have Internet access, and MySpace pages. This is the new era folks. So all you who say, “I can’t wait till Bubba/Bertha bunks with them” sorry to burst your bubbles, but they have it better in their than they do on the outside. I know I hate it too but that’s just the way it is.
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