GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man police say helped Quinn James murder and dispose of the body of the 16-year-old girl he raped talked to 24 Hour News 8 from the jail where he is being held on charges that could put him away for the rest of his life.
The suspect says that not only did he have nothing to do with the crime, but that he is the one who is the victim of a conspiracy.
Gerald Bennett, 58, spent several weeks in the Kent County Jail after being accused of lying about where he was and what he was doing in late January when Mujey Dumbuya went missing in from her bus stop in Kentwood before turning up dead days later in Kalamazoo.
Police say it was a 33-year-old used Chevy and $125 that convinced the Detroit native to help in the murder.
Two weeks ago, when he appeared in a Grand Rapids courtroom on a perjury charge, Bennett had this to say:
"I object to this hearing because my due process is not being honored, respected. The only thing I see now is being conniving of the law against me for a crime I didn't commit," Bennett said on March 28.
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