Category: Tales from the Registry

originally posted 5/14/2009 I appreciate you guys keeping everyone informed.Hopefully things get better. It’s funny to me see Americans grovel about not being able to find jobs, how mad they get over their personal info getting out to public. Being forced to wait in line ALL day to get fingerprinted while everyone else is in and out in 10 minutes. If you’re registering as a s/o,you get a big pink piece of paper that distinguishes you from our upstanding members of society that’s for fingerprints alone. I called a caseworker here in my state to ask if I could have a different mailing address so I wouldn’t  get kicked out of “another” place when I received my annual SEX OFFENDER and CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN verification. So I asked her politely if we could just keep it on the down-low from my RV park; it’s not a school or YMCA, just an adult trailer park. My home! A week later an officer from the SEX OFFENDER UNIT shows up at our park office,…

posted 5/10/2009 I am now 36 years old. I am a few months away from earning my PhD  I had sex with a 15 year old (plus ten months) when I was 21. She told me she was 19. This was in 1994. Since then, I have been stripped searched, denied employment, and have enjoyed the police knocking at my door. I have dedicated the last five years of learning, reading and research to designing a tornado rating system that could possibly save hundreds of lives in the US, and thousands worldwide. My mother told me once to “Never quit if you know you are right”. Does this sound like a SEX OFFENDER to you? Again, I thank you for all you do, and I am glad to join the fight because a fight is what it is becoming. I look forward to hearing from all of you.

originally posted 5/4/2009 I need support. I don’t know what to expect. My son was taken from me at 17 in the form of a modern day lynching. It felt that way! I am yet grieving. What is next when he is released from prison? A grieving mother in Arkansas

originally posted 4/24/2009 I am not sick nor do I believe that I committed a crime, (yet) I now walk on eggshells and avoid contact with most people. I am very bitter and angry but my faith in Christ keeps me going. Some days are harder than others. I had a court appointed attorney when I was still very young. She scared the life out of me. I agreed to whatever she said. Now my life is over. I try not to spread the negativity, but it’s a daily struggle. Some days I feel like I am going to snap. I AM IN SHOCK OVER THE FACT THAT YOU CAN NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT A LIFE SENTENCE LABELED AS A PERVERT!!! YOU CAN KILL SOMEBODY AND DO LESS TIME!!! ( I’m just venting ) My supposed crime: My girlfriend’s 15 year old sister jumped off a counter-top in the kitchen and I caught her. She told her dad that I grabbed her butt when…

originally posted 4/16/2009 Thank you for your site and a chance to post my comments. I live in Oregon. I turned myself in in 1989 because I wanted help to stop being a SO. Little did I know what the outcome of that would be, and if I had the same decision to make today…I would never have done it! I picked up the phone and called CSD and said I wanted help. 5 months later I was convicted of 3 felonies,5 years probation,complete the SO program in the OSH, which I spent 34 months there (and really needed it). During that time Megan’s law was enacted and even though I pled guilty in 1990 and have put my heart and soul into never offending again and so far have been successfully recovering… well sort of, even though I have not acted out, I still have to endure the ramifications of society. My wife left me a few months ago…

originally posted 4/18/2009 MY SON’S CASE WAS 10 YEARS AGO. IT WAS CONSENSUAL. HIS COURT APPOINTED LAWYER TOLD HIM TO PLEAD GUILTY SO HE WOULD SERVE NO TIME. AND HE DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCE WAS. PROBATION WAS NO PROBLEM, BUT TO GET FINGER PRINTED EVERY THREE MONTHS WAS A PROBLEM. HE WAS ARRESTED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO BECAUSE OF THE NEW LAWS. HE HAS TRIED TO JOIN THE FIRE DEPT, HE CAN’T. HE WANTS TO DEER HUNT WITH HIS SON AND CAN’T. HE CAN’T WORK ON SCHOOL PROPERTY OR WORK ON GOVERNMENT JOBS. THIS PUTS OUR SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS IN A BIND.

originally posted 4/8/2009 For those of you who aren’t aware, our son, A., went missing three months ago now. He was serving a five-year probationary plea and didn’t even make it through the first year, today, in fact, being one year since his release from jail. We’ve had no word of his whereabouts and have mixed emotions, as I’m sure you can understand. Do we try to find him and bring him back to this mess? Or, and we have no choice but to do the latter, do we just pray for his safety and the chance at some sort of life for him elsewhere? His picture was in the paper here (in our small community, so it spread like wildfire) Saturday, under Most Wanted – nice, smiling picture of our beautiful, clean-cut son, and the caption reading Abuse II – two new counts. I went to the courthouse today and accessed the Judicial Information Network computer to see if…

originally posted 4/6/2009 In 2002, almost 7 years ago, I was railroaded into taking a plea of possession of child pornography– “30 years to life if I fought or 9 months for a plea” — what would you risk? Had I known at the time that I would be required to register as sex offender for the rest of my life I would have never taken the plea. After I served a short stay in a federal prison I returned home to find that employment opportunities had all but disappeared. I was also told that I could no longer take residence in most areas of my home town as they were too close to a church or a park or a school, etc. After my face was plastered in the local paper along with all the other “predators,” I discovered how people can quickly turn from a friendly acquaintance to a hateful stranger. Now with the introduction of a new bill called International Megan’s Law 2009…

originally posted 4/5/2009 I am currently awaiting sentencing for possessing child pornography. I suffer from clinical depression and Borderline Personality Disorder. The possession was due to a tendency for Borderline patients to act impulsively and in self harming ways. They also have a tendency to feel unjustly evil, and in my case, I attempted to find a reason for such feelings. I’ve become suicidal numerous times since the onset of the investigation against me, once being hospitalized on a 72 hour mental health hold. I’ve been in therapy, both individual and in group for over a year, and have sought help from friends and professionals alike. Ironically, my sentencing relies on a psychological evaluation conducted by a man whose degree is from an overtly religious conservative Evangelical Christian seminary school. As ignorant as I was before I had gotten myself into the mess I’m currently in, I still find it hard to comprehend the severity of the punishment that awaits…

originally posted 4/3/2009 Maybe you folks can get something done about the Adam Walsh act that prevents me from bringing my family to America to live. I was falsely accused 20 years ago by my 14 year old step daughter of molesting her, but it was lies on me out of revenge because I told her mother about catching her in a three way orgy, and her mother slapped her in her mouth busting her lip. Like a fool I was advised to take a plea bargain because I had a prior felony for writing a forged check when I was about 22. I was threatened long prison if I went before a jury and they found me guilty  The DA and court appointed lawyer said they would probably agree with the girl because of my prior felony. I am now 59 years old, and re-married to a nice Russian lady, and we have a new daughter together who is two years…