Month: January 2013

originally posted 7/2012 A year after I was added to the registry, my wife gave me a new billfold. I didn’t understand;  my billfold was not that old.  She took my driver’s license and put it in the new wallet.  The plastic window was smaller, and she pointed out, “Now you can’t see where the red letters state, ‘criminal sex offender.’”  Hmm, I wonder if there’s a non criminal sex offender? I tried to fight the registry, even joined the ACLU, wrote letters and e mails, and was in the process of organizing a chapter to join in the fight. She was dead set against it.  My wife has never even had a parking ticket.  I think it was a shock to her when she found out the police and legal system are far from being the good guys…sadly she fears them now, and that’s a shame.  Worse yet, she fears for me and will not accept what I want to…

originally posted 7/2012 I was charged with a CSC crime when I was 17, it’s on my Juvenile record.  But I still have to register as a Sex Offender.  I got my charge in Michigan & I failed to register like on my 1st time to re-register so I got a misdemeanor for that.  Fast forward to 10 yrs later,  I now live in Virginia.  Here, I register monthly & let them know where I’m working.  I lost a total of two jobs in VA due to the Trooper coming to my job to verify my employment.  He came in full uniform and stated he was from the Sex Offender Department.  On a background check my crime does not show up but my failure to register does.  I talked to the Trooper;  he told me they have to physically verify Sex Offenders’ employment.  So that led me to not report my working.  I have a family now & each time…

originally posted 7/2012 Ten years have passed since my conviction.  I have gone through fear of trying to be close with others; my new life has shunned me from others that cease to understand me.  I live in a small city in a studio apartment.  I have grown to be alone and fear that all I’ll become is a silent moving shadow that is among the community.  I don’t know what I’ll do; my life is closing in on me but I do live cause life wants me to live.   I have attempted to commit suicide a few times, not because of the registry but knowing that people will never take me in as their own and I’ll continue being shunned.  I just want to be understood.

originally posted 7/2012 I was talking through a chat room and ended up talking to multiple undercover cops posing as 15 year olds.  When they tried to get me out in public to meet I declined.  A few days later I was arrested anyway.  I was charged with soliciting a minor, even though I didn’t leave my residence.  I lost the job I had at the time and was let go from another shortly after sentencing.   My attorney recommended taking the deal offered but promised to appeal and never did.   I’m currently going through the court ordered therapy which is a joke.  I find they teach people how to find easier victims.  The therapist also has told the group that there are no good males in her profession and has blamed men for most evil in the world.  I can’t find a job and I have to see a man-hating therapist.  On top of this the county can’t…

originally posted 7/2012 My husband is a RSO and I love him dearly.  All my hubby did was show some porn to his daughter trying to teach her how to defend herself.  He realizes this was not a good thing to do.  She told his mom about it and she (his mom) reported the incident to the police thinking that my husband would only get a slap on the hand.  As a result, my husband was arrested and charged with a sex offense.  He did his prison time, but he is continually being punished as a result of the registry.  My dear husband cannot get employment or housing.  He now has to list all the places he frequents on the registry including the places where he eats, or it’s considered a parole violation which could send him back to prison.  He can’t even use my place to take showers or eat, or I would have to put my address on the registry…

originally posted 7/2012 I am on the registry since 2005, charged with child pornography; lots of images.  Took the plea deal:  10 years registration, which two years later got grandfathered to a lifetime registration.   Did sex offender treatment, three years of probation.  All completed, all done with.   I thought.  I am not denying any of the pornography, but at a certain point in treatment, I felt forced to add a number of things – touching or groping  that didn’t occur – just to move beyond that particular point.  I know it sounds like a lie; treatment was one of the best things that could of happened to me, it allowed me to reveal things that I have kept hidden for so long, including being sexually abused myself.   Another red flag:  I am not supposed to use that as an excuse, or a crutch, I was constantly told in treatment.  You are looking at a man whose life from the age of 12 has been fear…

originally posted 6/2012 This is not about me, but about a young man I know.  I am a Special Education teacher at a very small school, in a small rural community.  We have grades K-12 on one campus, and everyone knows everyone.  I will call him CJ. CJ was classified under Special Education with low skills in verbal understanding, and low reading and math skills.  CJ was at least two years behind his peers, and so therefore was 18 when he was a junior in high school.   He had also been in trouble at a different school and lost many high school credits.   But he was a very likable, polite young man when he had support. When CJ was a junior and just started to play football, younger girls started to chase him.  He was friends with a brother of one of the girls, and it wasn’t long until the 13 year old girl “caught” him.  Her mother…

originally posted 6/2012 In 2003, I was told I had to register as a ten year registrant.  In 2008, I received a letter stating that I would have to register for the rest of my life.  Talk about change!  My son had just been born and I was happy.  I was doing my best to move forward in my life but this letter just put a roadblock in the way.  I was convicted of two crimes; one in October of 2003 and one in the summer of 2004.  I was told that due to these two crimes I was supposed to be a lifetime RSO.   Other people have the same two crimes; some have even three yet they are 10 year RSOs.  How is that even possible?  I try to better my life by going to school and getting a better education but even that doesn’t help.  I’m a RSO in Maine, and I push forward cutting my way through all the red tape and…

originally posted 6/2012 I was imprisoned for nine months in gaol for not pleading guilty and 30 years on the sex offenders’ list and was refused an appeal which has devastated my life. I have been denied  natural justice and I am stuck with evidence that exposes my innocence and I am also stuck with the stigma of being branded something that I have always despised.  What makes it worse — the culprit had admitted to the authorities in March 1984, but was not charged and it was his crimes that I have been charged with.  This was also known by the police with other damning evidence and I have been condemned for life with monthly checks. This is depressing and it if it wasn’t for my friends & family I would not be alive today without their belief in me.  That includes their daughters whom  I looked after as children.  Trust me with children and ignore the cruel law which has…

originally posted 6/2012   I  am an rso residing in Illinois  it seems like every time that the state legislature is finished, there are new laws and regulations that are more punitive and degrading to rso’s in this state.it is a living nightmare of more punishment that is thought up by our government leaders. The registry list reminds me of Schindler’s list from the madness of the Nazi regime. we are being politically enslaved, and slavery was abolished by President Lincoln.  Martin Luther King died because he believed in what the constitution has written in it for the freedoms that all american citizens should have, that includes all rights and liberty. John Walsh is exploiting the emotions of people to gain fame and fortune. he is no better than the ones he puts on most wanted. it makes me sick to watch any of his endorsements or shows. he is one of the group of vigilantes stalking so’s, and promoting the madness, and include our government leaders as well.