Published: Friday, November 9, 2012.
DAYTONA BEACH — A suspect in the murders of two women pleaded guilty Friday in a separate crime — the rape of a 9-year-old neighbor.
James Maxwell, 44, of Port Orange was sentenced to three life terms by Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson for kidnapping and raping the girl. He was sentenced to an additional 15 years for burglary.
The three life terms are for capital sexual battery, lewd and lascivious molestation of a person younger than 12 and kidnapping.
Defense Attorney Jane Park asked the judge to request protective custody for Maxwell once he arrives in prison.
“This type of charge makes you a target,” Park said Friday after the hearing. “I’m afraid he could get attacked or killed.”
Maxwell had been a holiday party guest at the girl’s parents’ house in the Brandy Hills neighborhood in December 2011. Court documents show that sometime after the party that night, the girl woke up to find Maxwell sitting in a chair in her bedroom.
Police say Maxwell told the girl to leave her house with him because “they needed to pick up her mother.”
Maxwell then abducted the girl and raped her, police said. Reports say Maxwell told the child to take off her clothes. When she refused and resisted, Maxwell is accused of striking the child in the head.
Authorities say Maxwell drove the child to a wooded area, raped her and took her to a park, where they stayed for the night. He was arrested the next day after dropping off the child at Port Orange police’s headquarters on Clyde Morris Boulevard.
Port Orange Lt. David Meyer said it was never clear exactly where Maxwell took the youngster that evening, because the child could not describe the locations and Maxwell has never confessed to the crimes.
Park said her client agreed to a plea because he did not want the child to have to testify in a trial. Park also said her client never confessed to the kidnapping and rape, however “he didn’t want to fight the charges tooth and nail,” she said.
Maxwell is also charged with first-degree murder in the killings of prostitutes Chasity Starr of Holly Hill and Pamela Will of South Daytona.
Even though he has pleaded not guilty, search warrants show Maxwell admitted to Port Orange detectives that he killed Starr by strangling her in January 2011. Starr’s body was found in Maxwell’s backyard in June. Her skeletal remains were wrapped in a red, white and blue quilt-like bed spread, the search warrants state.
Pamela Will, meanwhile, was found in a muddy ditch next to International Trade Associates in Ormond Beach, where Maxwell once worked.
In 1988, Maxwell was also convicted of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing a Daytona Beach prostitute in the chest. He served time in prison for that offense. His trial for the Starr/Will murders is slated for early next year.
Friday afternoon as Hutcheson read the charges against Maxwell, the suspect’s mother, Dixie Maxwell, sat quietly in the courtroom, dark glasses shielding her eyes. After the hearing, she said she has stayed in contact with her son while he’s been in custody at the Volusia County Branch Jail.
“He’s really a good person,” Dixie Maxwell said. “He’s my son. He will always be my son.”
Well another example of a known sick violent felon who was sent to AA Meetings by the courts and goes on to rape a 9 year old little girl. Then they find prostitutes that he buried in his back yard!
Good going Volusia County and AA! Multiple dead women and a raped 9 year old little girl.
This tragedy involving Daytona AA member James Maxwell as well as Daytona NA member Richard Newkirk, are similar in many ways with the one involving Donald James Smith.
THIS WEBSITE ADVOCATES FOR CHILD SAFETY AND PUBLIC AWARENESS!
PLEASE, FIND OUT WHO IS HANGING AROUND YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN!
GET THE INDIVIDUAL’S ( FULL NAME ) AND LOOK UP THE PUBLIC INFORMATION ONLINE CONCERNING CRIMINAL RECORDS AND SEX OFFENDER INFO!!!! LOCALLY, A GOOD PLACE TO START IS BY SIMPLY GOING TO” INMATE INFORMATION SEARCH AT THIS LINK WHICH HAS A HISTORY OF ARRESTS ;
http://www.volusia.org/services/public-protection/corrections/
YOU CAN ALSO CHECK THIS SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY LINK AT THE TOP OF THIS WEBSITE’S HOMEPAGE.
YOU CAN THEN FOLLOW UP BY GETTING (LOTS) OF DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ARRESTS BY VISITING YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC RECORDS DEPARTMENT !
MOST PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE HOW EASY IT IS TO GET THIS PUBLIC INFORMATION ABOUT ANYONE!!
KNOWING WHAT’S “REALLY GOING ON” WITH AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS HANGING AROUND YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN, WHETHER AT HOME OR IN YOUR LOCAL PARK/PLAYGROUND COULD MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE!
AA/NA WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO THINK THAT THEIR MEETINGS ARE SAFE AND THEIR MEMBERS HARMLESS.THE FACT IS THAT MANY ARE REPEAT OFFENDERS OF VIOLENT CRIMES AND SEXUAL ABUSE LIKE JAMES MAXWELL AND DONALD JAMES SMITH, YET AA/NA REFUSE TO IMPLEMENT BASIC SAFETY GUIDELINES !?
THEY LURE VIOLENT PREDATORS AND THE VULNERABLE TOGETHER TO UNSUPERVISED MEETINGS, EVEN IN PARKS/PLAYGROUNDS, IN TOTAL DENIAL OF THE OBVIOUS RISKS. WHEN ABUSE HAPPENS THESE ORGANIZATIONS TRY DESPERATELY TO COVER IT UP TO PROTECT THEIR IMAGE.
MANY VICTIMS HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS, EVEN IN PARKS / PLAYGROUNDS WHERE AA/NA KNOWINGLY PUT CITIZENS AND CHILDREN AT HIGH RISK!!
Daytona NA/AA advertises and encourages large groups of court mandated addicts/ felons to use Holly Hill Florida parks-playgrounds multiple times a week! Why don’t they rent a room like the other groups do and let the children use the playgrounds? Other area park systems have guidelines that prevent any organization from using a park for regular business!
Prosecutors to seek death in trial of suspect in 2 killings
Daytona Beach— November 19, 2012
James Maxwell, on Nov. 9, was sentenced to three life terms by Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson for kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old neighbor. He was sentenced to an additional 15 years for burglary.
Suspect in women’s killings pleads to rape of girl Murder suspect James Maxwell admitted to killing, warrants say Woman found in child-rape suspect’s yard honored at service Child-rape suspect indicted in killing of 2 women
James Maxwell, on Nov. 9, was sentenced to three life terms by Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson for kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old neighbor. He was sentenced to an additional 15 years for burglary.
DAYTONA BEACH — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the trial of a convicted Port Orange child rapist who is awaiting trial in the killings of two women.
Assistant State Attorney Ed Davis filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against James Maxwell, 44.
Maxwell was indicted earlier this year on charges of first-degree murder in the slayings of Chasity Starr and Pamela Sue Will.
Maxwell, on Nov. 9, was sentenced to three life terms by Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson for kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old neighbor. He was sentenced to an additional 15 years for burglary.
Even though he has pleaded not guilty in the killings, search warrants show Maxwell admitted to Port Orange detectives that he killed Starr by strangling her in January 2011. Starr’s body was found in Maxwell’s backyard in June. Her skeletal remains were wrapped in a red, white and blue quilt-like bed spread, the search warrants state.
Pamela Will, meanwhile, was found in a muddy ditch next to International Trade Associates in Ormond Beach, where Maxwell once worked. Will had been missing since September 2010.
Both women were prostitutes.
Defense attorney Peyton Quarles, said he is not surprised the State Attorney’s Office is asking for the death penalty for his client.
Quarles said he expected that outcome after a discussion with the State Attorney’s Office concerning the murder cases “in conjunction with the sexual battery case,” fell apart. Quarles declined to discuss the specifics of the conversation.
In 1988, Maxwell was also convicted of attempted murder for repeatedly stabbing a Daytona Beach prostitute in the chest. He served time in prison for that offense.
Prosecutors have said Maxwell’s trial on the murder charges will be next year.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20121119/NEWS/121119657/1040?Title=Prosecutors-to-seek-death-in-trial-of-suspect-in-2-killings
>Defense Attorney Jane Park asked the judge to request
>protective custody for Maxwell once he arrives in prison.
>“This type of charge makes you a target,” Park said Friday
>after the hearing. “I’m afraid he could get attacked or killed.”
Let the bastard get attacked and killed!
It would be one less AA Criminal ™ in our neighborhoods!
Rainbow- I cannot even believe they said that. I guess his attorney is trying to do his job, but letting the inmates do their own job
makes more sense. The fact that his mother said he “He’s really a good person,” Dixie Maxwell said. “He’s my son. He will always be my son.”
WOw! His mother has the audacity to say this after he has tried to kill one woman, then killed 2 women and he raped a nine year old little girl whose life will be changed forever?
Sounds like she was part of the problem, enabling her son. It was actually HER house that they found the body of Chasity Starr, not his. He just lived there.
His mother already knew he tried to murder a woman before he murdered these 2.
Dixie Maxwell is pretty sick herself. Hey Dixie- your son will always be a child rapist and killer of women. You raised a screwed up son. He seems to hate women- I wonder why Dixie?
News Release-
A man was sitting in a vehicle making strange noises at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of Sunkist Avenue. The man was highly intoxicated and sleeping in the vehicle but police were unable to determine if he had been driving drunk. Police escorted him home to his wife. The wife told police the man was supposed to have been at his Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Here is another link that explains a lot about this Daytona AA member Killer and Rapist James Maxwell.
http://nadaytona.org/2012/06/22/aa-member-james-maxwell-suspect-in-murder-of-holly-hill-chasity-starr/
OMG! They sent this man to AA meetings with other women and children? The FBI needs to get involved. I thought there were laws including state and federal to protect children.
Shari- I know. This is just terrible.I called the FBI a few times in regards to older man having sex with 16 year olds at an ACYPAA event in so cal. Call the FBI please, so they hear from someone else besides me.