Month: December 2012

originally posted 8/20/2010 My son is in prison for using Limewire and Frostwire and looking for adult porn; unfortunately he clicked on a few wrong pictures and now is in prison.   He is not an SO and he was 20 when this happened.  He got 15 months, one year probation.   The best of all is that the judge gave us room to appeal the status. He stated that my son was not an SO and the only reason that he had to give him that status is because the laws state that anyone who does anything with sex is considered an SO.  There are to many young adults getting caught up in this especially with the internet and these young adults have their life ruined. We are appealing the status because of the violation of due process and equal treatment under the law.   The judge gave him plenty to work with.   We are hoping that this could…

originally posted 8/19/2010 I worked for 27 years faithfully in the church as an associate pastor, yet through a failing marriage I made a very serious one time mistake with my daughter; fondled her while drinking, and it cost me my career, reputation and livelihood.  I have been out of prison one year now and have been terminated from jobs that knew my complete background, full disclosure at application, yet they let me go because an adult female working in the same building as myself felt “uncomfortable.”   I would like to be employed but have only been able to find occasional part-time self-employment working home improvements.   I have a lot of experience, training in my field as a music educator, but no one will give me a second chance.

originally posted 8/18/2010 My husband is a so-called “sex offender”, or so says his ex-wife.  She took their daughter to many different psychologists who finally told her what she wanted to hear. Twenty years later, while driving a tractor trailer through CA, he was stopped due to a minor traffic accident (which was not his fault).   He was immediately arrested due to the old incident and thrown in jail. The company he worked for left him in CA and fired him on the spot with no way home.  We live in Kentucky. At that time CA had a law on the books that said she could drag anyone, whether or not she knew them, off the street to say he had molested them, or someone they knew, and they would immediately arrest him again for another trial. Therefore we had to take a plea agreement. Now mind you that the doctor’s paperwork said this girl was still a virgin although…

originally posted 8/18/2010 My son Joey is in a VA jail.  He was sentenced to seven years for 22 counts of sodomy, double felon,  Federal government waiting to pounce only because Joey’s attorney gave the Feds a tidy package.   So they don’t have to do a thing other than give him more charges.   He is supposed to be at a university where he’z been admitted to work on his PhD, but instead he’s in jail!   This is a nightmare, he made a big mistake and it cost him his life.  There is no forgiveness, no redemption.  I need to fight this somehow,  I’m out of ideas.

originally posted 7/27/2010 When my son was 21 he was kissing a 13 year old girl.  The girl’s mother was relentless and wanted him locked away for life.   He was in jail for seven months, did three years’ probation and now is on lifetime supervision (which was never explained to us when we took the plea to keep him out of jail) for up to ten years. He has had two counselors who said that he is at very low risk of reoffending (he was never in any trouble before), many of the people in authority that he talks to agree that he is a low risk yet he is on lifetime supervision.  Whenever my daughter is here with my two grandchildren, he cannot be at home. He is not allowed to talk to them on the phone or see pictures of them. He cannot afford to live elsewhere right now. We found out that if he makes any mistakes,…

originally posted 7/19/2010 My son pled no contest to robbery in 1999.   He received a seven year sentence.  Somewhere around 2000-2001 while in prison he was again charged and took a guilty plea (indecent exposure) for exposing himself to a female correctional officer.   At the time he was 19 or 20 years old locked behind bars. He was paroled in 2005 just before turning 25 years old.   He later failed a drug test administered by his parole officer and was taken back to jail on a parole violation.    When he was released the second time he was made to wear a GPS device which prohibited his ability to live with friends or family and caused him to become homeless. I would like to know what type of programs, if any are available to help rehabilitate him.   My son told me that he does not qualify for programs he has tried to get into because of…

originally posted 5/23/2010 Social Services built a pretty hefty case against me, all circling around the  fact that I am “encouraging” my children to be in a relationship with a high-risk offender, and that I must be “grooming” them for him.   This is what I    am fighting.   I don’t know if this is a legal point or not.   I believe I am in     need of a pro-s.o. lawyer.  I don’t know if they can take my children from     me if I refuse to cut contact between him and them. They draw him pictures and make him art projects and occasionally, about once a month talk to him on the phone.  He has a very active part in their     life as co-parent with me.  Keep in mind, his crime was not against anyone violently, or against prepubescent children.  He never raped or molested anyone as his offense.  And furthermore, my children…

originally posted 5/22/2010 As long as the law can threaten, promise,  and lure, there will be no justice.   The law needs to be reformed.   Mass hysteria has to stop.  The public needs to be educated. The Sex Offender Registry is unconstitutional!  What about people who commit murder?  Or drunk drivers who kill innocent people? They don’t   have to register. THIS LAW NEEDS TO BE CHANGED:   There is a          difference between “PREDATOR” and “NO RISK OFFENDER”.   I checked my papers on my first year of registration and it said I would have to      register for five more years after probation.   The next year I checked, it   then said I had to register for life!   That’s B.S.   I am a God-fearing man and     I have paid my debt to society with thousands of dollars. I never failed one polygraph, or a plethysmograph which women offenders don’t…

originally posted 5/18/2010 This is a brief letter to give you background information on ourselves, our situation and our son.   He was convicted of a sexual offense against a        minor and sentenced to a term of three years, of which he was required to serve 85%.   He has done so, he was due to get out in April, 2010, after   serving his sentence.   But NOW he has been civilly committed in New         Jersey, and is subject to confinement for an indefinite period to time. Can he be helped;  has anyone fought civil commitment successfully and    won their release? Do you have any information we might be able to use to challenge this      unfair practice? At present we are using the Public Advocate as his attorney. Can you        provide us with any additional information and/or help?   We have a          …

originally posted 5/13/2010 My son is bipolar and was 19 when he had CONSENSUAL sex with two girls (each almost 14 years of age).   The acts were separate.   Both girls never wavered from their original police statement that the sex was consensual.       The judge ruled from the bench that it was consensual.   Yet he received ten  years’ probation and will be a registered SO for life.   I worry if he will be     able to pass a polygraph since he is bipolar and on medications. I want to help get these ridiculous laws changed.   It is my belief that they     are unconstitutional.