Month: December 2012

originally posted 9/1/2010 As a registered sex offender this is very important to me.  I feel like I lose more every day.   I’m tired of not being treated like a human, but more like something you cast away.

originally posted 9/1/2010 I have been having a battle with the sex offender registry for the past six years, and it’s not looking like its going to end anytime soon.   Here is my story in brief.   When I was 18 years old, I made the terrible mistake of having intercourse with a 14 year old girl.   I was ordered five years of probation.   At the time I was sentenced, the state was requesting that I register as a sex offender.   My attorney objected, saying I met the requirements in the State of Wisconsin to not be required to register if the judge did not feel it was needed.   The Judge told me that I met the requirements not to register, but he was going to make me register at that time and said there might be a chance of getting off the registry when I finished my probation.   On April 1st 2009, three and a…

originally posted 8/26/2010 I am suffering a conviction at bench trial of lewd conduct in public.   And made to register as a sex offender even though the only person offended was driving by at 75 mph and saw me off the side of the road. I have read the Important High court rulings regarding various challenges to the constitutionality of SOR.   I am appalled at how misrepresented the process of SOR is in these cases. For instance in Smith V Doe, Alaska (ASORA) Roberts, claims, and it’s utterly false, that a registrant may update his registration by mail.  I have to go to the police station every time I register.  As a homeless person this is every 30 days. Also the courts rely far too heavily on the conviction as the source of all the problems that flow from SOR.   But this cannot be so.   It is only natural that with time, a person convicted of…

originally posted 8/26/2010 I spent over 20 years in prison for my crimes and served every day of that time. I accepted may sentence but found myself being sentenced to more and more restrictions as my time went by.  What the law books told me couldn’t be done was being done over and over as the fear of a sex crime grew.  I still can’t believe so many restrictions have been added to a sentence I received in 1988.  I still have nightmares as I visualize the number of pitfalls placed right in front of every step I take to help myself and others.  The worst part is the restrictions aren’t helping the problem – their only purpose is to punish.  I’ve had little chance to help in the way I know I can:  Sharing what I know has helped me.

originally posted 8/25/2010 I have the right to vote and a clean criminal record but I’m registered in Iowa for an offense occurring 13 or more years ago when I was between 10 and 12.   With court dragging out for eight years and a deferred judgement placing me on the registry at 18.   Due to my charges being what they are the Department of criminal investigations /SOR sent me a letter stating that I will be registered for life.   My (ahem!) victim is willing to make a statement on my behalf as she feels that playing doctor at age 10 does not make me an evil sexual deviant and persons from the Iowa department of corrections are also willing to back me. If I can’t have my freedom and liberty then I will have my freedom posthumously because the Government that I once loved and depended on has defecated on my rights.

originally posted 8/25/2010 Statutory rape is not always rape.  In fact, many times this is not the case. Coercion or intimidation are most certainly not always present in a case where a victim is under the age of consent.   Many times this is the case … just as many times it is not.   My girlfriend is 15 and I am 19.   Her father didn’t approve of our relationship and found out we had sex and reported me.  (At the time, I was 18 and she was 14 – we are exactly four years, three days apart.   It happened about two months before our respective birthdays).   She took my virginity!  I don’t go around and solicit young minors for sex; I just met her, fell in love with her, and it happened.   I would never make her feel bad, or convince her to do something that she doesn’t want to.   We chose to do…

originally posted 8/25/2010 I have a short story to tell you.   Right after I got out of military prison,  a teenager in our neighborhood found my name on the sex offender registry and decided he wanted to set a fire on my front porch.   We called the police and we knew who started the fire.   There was a can of gasoline right next to where the teenager was hiding.  The police said they could not prove who started the fire and did nothing to the teenager. One of the other things I think should happen is that if people want to access the registry maybe they should have to create an account and log in to view the registry; that way they can be tracked and if something happens to someone on the registry then there is a trail.

originally posted 8/24/2010 My daughter had no criminal history at all.   Someone she met online sent her a couple images of what appeared to be minors in sex acts.   She didn’t report this, didn’t ask for the pictures, didn’t forward the pictures to anyone.   For having these pictures on her computer she received five years probation and is now on the registry for 20 years!   Her lawyer convinced her to plead guilty to avoid jail time and also lead her to believe she wouldn’t have to register.   The laws desperately need to be changed!  She had to register for her offense along with people who have raped children.  That makes no sense at all.  She lost her job because of this along with so much more. People who don’t know a sex offender, don’t really know what’s going on!  They need to know!  I’m thankful to have found this website.   Hopefully together we can…

originally posted 8/24/2010 My friend was wrongfully convicted of a sex crime against a girl that he did not know was underage.   He kissed her and touched her breast after she came on to him.   The District Attorney had it in for him because he dated the D.A.’s daughter.   He pled guilty because his court appointed lawyer told him “she couldn’t fight the DA on this one and it would be in his best interest to plead guilty”.   He is being harassed unfairly now that he is out of jail by the law here and none of the other sex offenders are being harassed. He went to Florida where he unknowingly stayed with his girlfriend for five nights (nonconsecutive) because the tent he was living in – which the state told him to live in(under a bridge) was getting wet from rain.   He was arrested in Florida for being within 1000 yards of a park….

originally posted 8/22/2010 I think that the sex offenders who keep on taking advantage of the system and the ones that are really dangerous are not on the registry.   But the ones like me who have made a life for myself and their families also take the hits from the laws. My employer knows that I’m on the registry and has gotten calls about me.  But he says he has never lost a client because of me.   It’s a form of discrimination against those who lead normal lives.   The Constitution protects against this. They say children do not lie; they will say almost anything to keep from getting in trouble.   They also twist your words and play mind games to confuse you to slip up and say what they want to hear.  Of course if you don’t have enough money you get the worst deal and railroaded into jail. I remarried and I have had an…