Jason Belew Charged With Killing Dakota Hughes, 11
October 19, 2009 by Morbid
Cartwright, Oklahoma – Not a lot of details on this but enough to raise some questions. 11-year-old Dakota Cheyenne Hughes was spending the weekend at her Aunt’s house who lives next door. Reports state that she was up late watching movies with 34-year-old Jason Lee Belew — an acquaintance of one of Dakota’s relatives and a man she had known for about a month. At around 4 a.m. the Aunt woke up and found Dakota dead in a back bedroom and Jason was nowhere to be found. Authorities arrested Belew on a criminal mischief warrant on SundaySunday reviews
then officially charged with 1st degree murder.
The medical examiner reported that there were signs of trauma, but the cause of death has not been released. But that’s the last of my questions at this point. I, like others, would like to know what the fuck this girl was doing watching movies with a 34-year-old man and why other family members thought this was ok? I’m not saying that all 34-year-old men are waiting to murder an 11-year-old whenever the opportunity presents itself, but that is just odd. If I had an 11-year-old daughter, I am pretty sure I would not allow her to watch movies late at night alone with another 11-year-old boy – much less a grown man.
“She had a friend that came over and watched movies with her,” her father Bill Hughes said. Hughes said he didn’t know Belew personally. I try not to be biased, as little kids die all the time, regardless of the economic class they are brought up in. But I will admit that as soon as I saw the images of the home, my question of “what kind of family would allow a little girl to stay up and watch movies with a man in his thirties” was answered with “Oh, yeah. OK.” Not trying to blame anyone here aside from the person responsible for actually murdering Dakota, but unless Jason was a really, really close friend of the family anyone else feel like some very poor judgment contributed to this tragedy as well?
Guess we will find out as more details are made available.
Update – more information coming out. We got some anonymous information that I will not put up at the moment, but it didn’t paint anyone around Dakota in a good light. Like I stated in the comments, it reminded me of Rowan Ford. Not in the murder, even though both are heinous, but also in their environments. It is being reported that Dakota went with her aunt to pick up Jason, and when they got back Jason and Dakota’s aunt began drinking beer and malt liqour.
The aunt got dizzy and went to bed, leaving Dakota alone with Belew. When she woke up from passing out, she found the naked body of Dakota on the floor of another bedroom and Belew was gone. We have read reports of Dakota being sexually assaulted, strangled and beaten with a bat, but none of that is official – however, it was reported that when Belew was picked up he had blood on his clothing. I’ll keep updating as more information comes out, and enjoy looking at the cocksucker’s mugshot.
Learning that the aunt left Dakota alone with a drunk man that she had only known for a month is really, really starting to grate on my nerves. To imagine what her last moments were like while her aunt snored away in a drunken stupor mere feet away from where she was being murdered. Stories like this makes me wish I was a Christian so I could also drink the Kool-Aid and be comforted by the fact that Dakota was in a better place and that a God had a reason for letting a drunken piece of shit rape and murder a defenseless 11-year-old.
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11:12 am on October 19th, 2009
Also, WHAT type of 34 yo man is friends with an 11 yo and in what reality does the family think it is normal enough to “allow” this child to have her 34 yo friend come visit??
11:15 am on October 19th, 2009
Looking at that beautiful little girl (along with the fact she was found dead in a bedroom) — I’m thinking murder wasn’t the first crime on the agenda that night.
A 34 year old relative? Probably. A 34 year old long time family friend? Possibly. A 34 year old virtual stranger? (which is pretty much what someone is after a month!) Hell no!
Poor kid. RIP Dakota
11:31 am on October 19th, 2009
Aunt’s boyfriend?
11:33 am on October 19th, 2009
I took this to mean a friend of Dakota’s? Maybe I misread??
11:34 am on October 19th, 2009
In the context of the online articles, the statement made by her father of “She had a friend that came over and watched movies with her” sounds like he is talking about Dakota. But he could have very well have been talking about the Aunt. In which it would make a lot more sense that he would have been watching movies with Dakota, especially if the Aunt crashed earlier than he did.
11:44 am on October 19th, 2009
Yeah, cause when I read that line I was really freaked out, but the Aunt going to bed and leaving them up is totally out there too. I mean the child should have been put to bed before the Aunt crashed. Also, I tried to find pics of the home environment that you mentioned but could find them; which source link was it??
11:46 am on October 19th, 2009
Looks like this 34 yo man was a friend of Dakota’s, at least that is what her father is saying in source #2.
12:10 pm on October 19th, 2009
There is so much wrong with this!
12:18 pm on October 19th, 2009
I want to know more about the family; this whole thing is just plain freaky!
12:38 pm on October 19th, 2009
sarabei
12:18 pm on October 19th, 2009
I want to know more about the family; this whole thing is just plain freaky!
Looks like this 34 yo man was a friend of Dakota’s, at least that is what her father is saying in source #2.
I totally agree with you, this is some weird shit. if it’s like it reads we’re dealing with some strange adults, definitely need more info
12:42 pm on October 19th, 2009
Doesn’t seem like dad had a problem with his daughter hanging with a 34 yo man…that he DID NOT KNOW. Were they pimping her out?
12:52 pm on October 19th, 2009
ANY of my family would have shit bricks if even attempted a friendship of a man that age! Something is not right here, not right at all!!
1:11 pm on October 19th, 2009
A pedophile
Yeah that’s what really gets to me about this. The first thought is ‘what idiots’ but I think it may be something along with that. I mean there is no doubt they are idiots. I guess it’s the absolute lack of responsibility when it comes to this child’s safety/welfare/well being whathaveyou. Not to mention I wouldn’t let someone hang in my house after I went to bed. I’m weird that way. I’m also well over the age of 11. I certainly wouldn’t let someone sit and ‘watch movies’ with a child in my charge while I went to sleep.
This is just so sad
1:23 pm on October 19th, 2009
That is what bothers me so much about this too, bad enough everyone in her family (certainly dad and aunt) knew about this “friendship” but they actually appeared to accept it……what a waste of a young life…I want to see the place these people live and are from. Honestly this sound like something from an inbred community of illiterate backwoods idiots.
2:26 pm on October 19th, 2009
Ok for one thing you ppl dont know the hole story to start with, I an a neighbor to this family, and i know the the father, and he stated to me that if he know that jason was at his sister house that Dakota would not have gone to her house at all!!!! this is a single father raising 2 daughters….. and is doing a awsome job if any of you want to blame some 1 blame the aunt for letting the man come to her house and doing this,, as if i had some 1 else child at my house i would never lat some one i have knew for a month to be aound my family
2:35 pm on October 19th, 2009
Kinda like that? :O
2:45 pm on October 19th, 2009
EXACTLY like that!!
I am sorry, but an AWESOME dad, even one raising the kids alone, KNOWS not to let his daughter who is only 11 be “friends” with a 34 year old FULL grown man. We won’t go into allowing her to go over, sleep over none the less, with an Aunt who apparently doesn’t have a brain cell to her credit rattling around her cranium.
2:58 pm on October 19th, 2009
I only have an issue with the Dad if Dakota was friends with Jason and he knew about it, even though he did state that he did not know Jason personally. What I want cleared up is if Jason was a friend of Dakota’s, or if he was a friend of the aunt. Because if he was a friend of the aunt and just happened to be at the home, then I am not sure what the Dad could have done to prevent this.
3:02 pm on October 19th, 2009
We don’t know that dad knew the aunt was allowing his child to hang out with a 34 year old man, unsupervised. In fact, he probably had no idea.
And, even if this aunt had displayed questionable judgment in the past, she’s family, and her close proximity probably made dad feel comfortable with allowing his daughter to visit. After all, she’s just next door.
It’s WAY too early to be jumping on dad, here. For the time being, the responsibility to keep that girl safe lied squaredly on the aunt, and it was the aunt who failed.
3:11 pm on October 19th, 2009
Exactly. At this point – with the info being reported – this Dad let his daughter spend the night with his sister, and now she is dead at the hands of a man who was there without his knowledge.
3:12 pm on October 19th, 2009
Morbid, your probably right
It would make more sense if this was the aunt’s friend and she crashed and left him alone with Dakota. Some of these stories are copied from 1 source so you get the same mistake made over and over (Dakota’s friend).
3:20 pm on October 19th, 2009
The confusion is coming from that one damn sentence in which the news report inserted Dakota’s name.
If that was correct, then there are some issue all the war around. But if not, then again, I just do not see where the father is at fault. Guess we will find out more. I am hoping Maggieann comes back and clarifies that one point.
3:22 pm on October 19th, 2009
Someone posted this in the comments on Tulsa World: (http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20091019_11_A8_CRWIHm369086)
3:29 pm on October 19th, 2009
Well if that above quote is true, like I stated before, that makes a lot more sense.
3:29 pm on October 19th, 2009
That is sad, and if the dad knew nothing about this man, he, of course, did nothing wrong. And yes, that one sentence is what caught my attention. That quote by Zibarro backs up what Morbid stated up front, it was probably the Aunt’s BF. I do hope we get some clarification on this.
3:35 pm on October 19th, 2009
Yup, and you know who isn’t even being mentioned at all in this rush to blame/question Dad? JASON LEE BELEW, CHILD MURDERER.
3:42 pm on October 19th, 2009
I just think the whole thing is sad; poor little thing; And yeah, the Jason ought to be catching the shit for sure. That one damn little sentence!!
3:48 pm on October 19th, 2009
Who killed Dakota was never in question, people are just speculating on who else contributed to it. The way the http://www.newsok.com article was written, the father knew about the 34-year-old man and wrote it in a way that made it seem as if he was Dakota’s friend.
3:49 pm on October 19th, 2009
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I hope he gets the death penalty – and something is seriously fucked up with the aunt, too. How does your niece get beaten, raped and strangled in the middle of the night and you not hear ANYTHING??
Stupid cunt.
RIP Dakota
3:55 pm on October 19th, 2009
Ok, I know that everyone has been quick to blame the father, and trust me, my father would have beat the crap out of anyone 3 years older than me growing up, much less 23 years older! Here is my question….they were at the aunts house….why is it that NO ONE has wanted to blame the aunt? Does anyone but me think she might have had something to do with this? I can’t sleep through my child tossing and turning much less something that had to have been going on there. I am sure it is too early to tell but I truly hope that they have a few questions for the aunt! JMO but something screams bullshit when it comes to the aunt sleeping through this or that.
RIP Dakota!
3:58 pm on October 19th, 2009
I get that, but sometimes I feel that the murderers/abusers/rapists themselves sort of get lost in the shuffle of “who to blame.” No doubt we hear about some monumentally idiotic parents on DD on a regular basis, so I get the frustration with those charged with supervising and caring for the kids in these stories.
I think what got me here is that even if Dakota’s dad DID know she was hanging around with a 34-year-old and allowed it, clearly he’s a fucking moron with piss-poor judgment, but I don’t think anyone could anticipate that he would actually murder her.
Who knows, it may turn out that the dad didn’t actually know, and was referring to the aunt and not Dakota when he referred to “her friend.” But if he did know, he should definitely be called out for his stupidity.
4:04 pm on October 19th, 2009
I think knowingly letting your child be friends with a 34 YO man goes beyond bad judgement and waltzes right into opening the door for a pedophile and handing him your daughter trussed up like a Christmas turkey.
Again, I DO hope that statement gets clarified. It has bugged me ever since reading it.
4:04 pm on October 19th, 2009
ok Dakota was not friends with jason, the aunt was friends with jason and the father did not know he was going to be there, yes the aunt need her head examed jsut me i blame her not the father he had told his sister do not have ur boyfriends around my kids!!! was there to spend the night with her aunt not to be with jason stop blaming her father for this!!!!!!!!!!
4:06 pm on October 19th, 2009
and eveny 1 does not know the hole story here as u are not here to know so before u go blaming some get the real story
4:07 pm on October 19th, 2009
Thanks for the clarification. And if you would read the comments, no one is blaming the father. They were saying the father was an idiot if Dakota was friends with a 34-year-old man and her father knew about it. None of this was the case, so you can lay off the exclamation points.
4:20 pm on October 19th, 2009
Beaten and strangled? I see the death penalty in this worthless fucker’s future. I wish I could kill him myself. As for the aunt, being that she was THERE, I would really love to hear her explanation. The world’s deepest sleeper, perhaps? I call bullshit on that. Maybe passed out drunk?
I don’t know why, but it pisses me off even more when I hear that the murderer beat the victim first. Like it’s not enough that you raped and killed her, you fucker, you had to BEAT her, too? Just thinking about it makes ME feel homicidal…
4:35 pm on October 19th, 2009
We are getting contacted anonymously and it seems as if Dakota’s story echoes Rowan Ford in a lot of ways.
4:36 pm on October 19th, 2009
Poor little thing probably put up quite the fight…I hope he fries too!!!
4:43 pm on October 19th, 2009
I hate to hear that.
4:45 pm on October 19th, 2009
Me too, that one still makes my stomach twist!
5:05 pm on October 19th, 2009
Odd.. that is who I thought of when I first read this story
Mine too. It gave me nightmares then – and gives them to me now, too. The suffering she bore was way beyond human tolerance. To think this child may have even suffered 1/10 of that sickens and hurts my soul.
RIP Dakota
RIP Rowan
5:13 pm on October 19th, 2009
If the dad did not know this Jason guy, and was not aware his daughter was “watching” tv with him, I just can’t judge him. Now the aunt, well she is a fucktard. If someone trust me with their child, to watch over them in their absence, I would NEVER go to bed, and allow any male or female friends to stay with them. That is irresponsible, and because she was irresponsible, the pedo evil creep took the life from Dakota. Throw the damn aunt in jail, she is just as guilty.
6:01 pm on October 19th, 2009
Poor Rowan, at least Dakota wasn’t dumped in a sinkhole and left to rot.
I see no reason once found guilty, to not place these degenerates in GP and let the animals at them, they should be made to beg to die.
6:16 pm on October 19th, 2009
ty, some 1 got what i was saying i do blame the aunt and i hope like hell she goes to jail too and yes they was drinking, who cares she was to watch over Dakota and didnt i blame her jsut as much as i blame jason they both need to die a slow death
6:28 pm on October 19th, 2009
Sorry if the father didn’t know about Jason, from that one sentence surely you can see why I was confused and totally outraged!! However, as it appears he didn’t know and this man wasn’t supposed to be there, my sympathies to the father and Dakota’s sister.
6:40 pm on October 19th, 2009
maggieann,
Would you mind telling us your age and relationship to all of this? I am NOT doubting you or being rude by any means. Just curious.
6:42 pm on October 19th, 2009
Sounds like the Aunt of this precious child, wasn’t all that responsible or a healthy example to an 11 year old. But, I can see where Dakotas Dad would allow her to stay overnight, that’s his sister, plus he lived next door. Poor Dad must really be distraught, not only because he has lost a daughter in a vile and evil way, but under his very own sisters watch, by his sisters “friend”, I am sure he feels some measure of guilt about it anyway and how will he or can he forgive his sister. Man, I feel a whole lotta anguish for this family….
Dakota, a beautiful name, having it’s orgin in Native American, it means Friend or Ally and Smiling Forever, perfect for this beautiful girl, who is now in a more beautiful place, forever smiling.
May God strike Jason Bellew with His almighty lighting, soon! Very soon!
7:36 pm on October 19th, 2009
i am 42 yrs old and i live by them my childern go to school with her
7:50 pm on October 19th, 2009
So the family is grieving. They know what happened. They know that if the aunt could have stopped it she would have. And you people, saying all these bad things towards the aunt and father is not helping them. Please people think about what you are saying and learn facts before saying these hateful things towards the family.
R.I.P Dakota Cheyenne Hughes
You were the sweetest girl and will be missed by many.
8:01 pm on October 19th, 2009
yes Dakota will be miss very much so by many, and my heart goes out to her father and her sister
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