originally posted 9/3/2010 When I said that I’m a bad person, I meant that this is the way the law has positioned me in society. My granddaughter’s mother was the one who pushed for more than an act of sex with my granddaughter and turned it into a rape charge. I spent four and one-half years in prison and as luck would have it, I was grandfathered away from the residency restriction. To say it’s fair is a comedy of errors. Thank you for giving me a platform to bitch my feelings.
originally posted 9/2/2010 I do apologize ahead of time if my typing is off. I’m not too good at responses, but I am intrigued by what you and your colleagues have said. I am charged with disseminating obscene material to a minor, but that is not what I want to get at. It is true having to give out all the info about where I live and work, scares me! That is due to the fact that I always feel like I am going to lose everything just because someone thinks I’m a threat or plain out hates me. I’m tired of feeling like that and I want to help fight back and maybe help those who are like me who just want to learn and move on with their lives. I have found being on the registry an utter joke due to the fact it does nothing at all except fuel people’s ignorance and fears. I do agree with…
originally posted 9/1/2010 My 19 year old son was just wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life in prison for sexual abuse of the child of a man he was working for, after a deal they had made for him to work for the man to pay for a truck. This went very wrong, and my son threatened to file charges for theft of the vehicle (the man refused to give him) and also threatened to tell police about the man’s Meth habits. This obviously angered the man and so he retaliated by pressing charges against my son for sexually abusing his daughter. The man told my son immediately that he was going to press charges against him and yet WAITED almost a month to take the child to the Dr. and/or to file charges. There was NO physical/medical evidence to support what he was accused of. My son has NO priors and never got into any kind…
originally posted 9/1/2010 My son was 18 years old when he and his friend met two girls at the library. They all went home to watch a movie together. The girls told the boys they were 16. Both girls had consensual sex with the boys. Who would have ever thought that a trip to the library would wind up ruining my son’s entire life? Turns out the girls were only 14. The girl that my son was with told a teacher that she had sex and that she thought she might be pregnant. My son spent nine months in maximum security prison and is five years into a 10 year period of probation and is a registered sex offender. He has tried to commit suicide quite a few times over the past six years. Why? Because he can’t get a job, no one will rent him an apartment, he can’t go to the mall, restaurants,…
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…
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