OK, this is just an easy place to see everything, just because I got tired of copying and pasting all the time, and putting links to things people weren't actually going to follow. This should hopefully give you all the details in one place.
This is publicly available information. Nothing here is implied about the accuracy of said documents, but this is what the free, publicly available court records, sex offender registration, and newspaper articles show. Clink on any link to go to the source in a new tab. Click on any image or PDF file to see it in a new tab.
What is this? Why is this here? Who is this person? Mighty Mouse (real name Christopher Wayne Yarborough) is an aspiring MMA and boxing fighter out of Virginia. In the last few years, he has been involved with Street Beefs, an organization I have helped support. It is an organization which attempts to settle "beefs" by letting the people fight in unsanctioned events to attempt to squash things, with all agreeing that it ends after that. Mighty Mouse was at one time a very visible (in every way possible) member of the group, and used it to promote his own potential fight career. If you've seen me share contents of a heavily tattooed individual doing workouts, etc., on my social media, that's who that is.
Right from the start, there was talk of sexual offense in his past, and he readily admitted he was in the penitentiary for many years. Upon questioning, his version of "facts" was that this was a gang-related thing, whereas the gang he was in was "pimping out" the mother of the victim, and this fell under the same statute in Virginia ("Carnal Knowledge") . Also, the original offense, according to his version, was in 1998 (when he would have been 19), and he allegedly violated some conditions in 2008 which led to his arrest and sentencing at that time. As despicable as all this is, most of us presumably chalked it up to "dumb 19-year-old got involved in gang, caught up in something nasty, and did time for it.". As recently as two days ago, he put up a video stating this again. He's since deleted it.
Recently, some of his behaviour (unrelated to this) led to a break with Street Beefs. That's when I remembered that the explanation at the time didn't really make much sense to me, So some digging ensued. One bit of advice if you're lying about easily found public information: Never piss off a computer geek. Ahem.
If you want to double-check this yourself (please do), here's how to do so:
Here's what you will find.
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To find this, simply go to: https://sex-offender.vsp.virginia.gov/sor/offenderDetails.html?regId=26086
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He's moved to Nevada, and the Virginia registration no longer exists. This one is now at https://sexoffenders.nv.gov/OffenderDetails.aspx?Display=Main&ID=6znXFaInAd5msLCfUdYg8A==.
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Keith Mikell unearthed this article, from the time of the arrest.
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Based on all this data, here is what we know:
He pled guilty to a violation of Virginia state statute 18.2-63
That is:
"Carnal knowledge of child between thirteen and fifteen years of age." (BTW, it's "below 15", so she could only be 14 at the most).
Here is the statute, link above.
A. If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen years of age or older but under fifteen years of age, such person shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony. B. If any person carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen years of age or older but under fifteen years of age who consents to sexual intercourse and the accused is a minor and such consenting child is three years or more the accused's junior, the accused shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. If such consenting child is less than three years the accused's junior, the accused shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor. In calculating whether such child is three years or more a junior of the accused minor, the actual dates of birth of the child and the accused, respectively, shall be used. C. For the purposes of this section, (i) a child under the age of thirteen years shall not be considered a consenting child and (ii) "carnal knowledge" includes the acts of sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anilingus, anal intercourse, and animate and inanimate object sexual penetration."
None of that is a pimping charge. Anything having to do with prostitution is covered in statutes 18.2-346 - 18.2-359. See link above. His court papers show a Class 4 Felony, so that means he had option A above.
He keeps saying that the original offence is in 1998. Where is that? It shows the offence in 2008, an arraignment, then he failed to appear. That is case CR08000089-02, which is a felony contempt of court charge for failure to appear. That is a violation of statute 19.2-128, link above.
Then his counsel withdrew on October 1st, 2008 (on the Carnal Knowledge Charge), then again on October 20th, again on that charge (different lawyer?) Then he eventually pled guilty on March 3rd, 2009, and got sentenced to 10 years with 6 suspended, and 5 years probation, which he terminated on March 12, 2018.
If, as he claims, this was a pimping charge from 1998, and he violated conditions and that's what the 2008 mess is about, then I still have questions:
Was he charged with the wrong crime and pled guilty to carnal knowledge with a 13-14 year old when he didn't do it but was just pimping her mother? He violated conditions in 2008 and was arrested for that, and got, in 2008, and arraignment, pre-trial motions, no-showed because he was still out, arrested again, had two counsels withdraw, another counsel appointed, then pled guilty? Since when do condition violations get all that for just the condition violation?
On top of that, the newspaper article at the time of arrest clearly lists (just like the court documents) the reason for arrest, and when the offense took place. No mention of any charge in 1998.
Unless the court documents, sex offender registration, and newspaper article all got it wrong, and there's also paperwork for a 1998 offence which no one can find, nor will Mouse produce, nor is there anything else under his name in the Culpepert Circuit Court, then this is what happened. As far as the "dumb 18-year-old" nonsense, cut the shit. As of present writing (August 14, 2019), the Sex Offender Registration (renewed a few weeks ago) shows current age as 41. Court records show date of birth as 07/31/****. Easy arithmetic gives us that the date of birth is 07/31/1978, which makes him at the time of the offense, in February 2008, 29 years of age. That is the age at which he committed those acts on a 14-year-old.
Draw your own conclusions.