originally posted 9/28/2009 We have children, and my husband was a high school teacher. ICE Agents came to our house and basically led my husband to believe he was under arrest. They left our house with our computers, family videos, video camera and other media. Eight months later my husband was indicted; the ICE agent lied and said my husband downloaded child porn for 17 years (how long has the internet been around?) and said the conversation was voluntary so no Miranda Rights were given to him. We have proof the agent lied, but the prosecutor and judge overlooked it. My husband is now serving a mandatory minimum of 5 year in prison almost 500 miles from our home.
originally posted 9/24/2009 How many times, in the past years, have you heard of a person being criminally charged, prosecuted, and jailed for a crime that eventually they were found not to have committed. �Even if you answered 1, that 1 person is just too many. �It happens more than you can imagine. �It is a pandemic. � � � � � I know what I speak of, since for the last 9 plus years, my nearest and dearest friend, Steven, was and still is a victim of being an innocent man being rail-roaded, incarcerated, because of the vindictive, retaliatory, drug using, drug dealing, drug selling, drug trafficking of his neighbor. �All because of the fact that Steven would not baby-sit her kids for free. �The neighbor filed false charges against him, claiming that Steven had sexually assaulted her daughter. �There was never any evidence, just hearsay, and even that had so many lies. �This woman has a history of…
originally posted 9/23/2009 Joshua was born to his US citizen parents January 12, 1987 on the island of Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. He spent the first few months of his life on the nearby island of Montserrat in the British West Indies where his father, a physician, was associated with the island’s medical school. The next few years of his young life were spent in London, England where his father was undertaking additional clinical training. Finally in 1994 he settled in North Carolina. He grew-up a gentle, happy, curious, very bright child. He loves animals and always had a home overfilled with pets. An avid swimmer, he was by age 11 a certified scuba diver and pursued the sport with great enthusiasm. Joshua shares his parent’s passion for travel. By age 17 he had literally been around the world and visited well over twenty nations on six continents. His deep desire to learn about the peoples and cultures he has visited is remarkable…
originally posted 9/5/2009 After having sex in my home (1979) with my friend she demanded money from me, to purchase drugs. When I refused, she cried rape. My attorney informed me if �I prefer a trial and lost, I was looking at 3 to 5 years in state prison. �If i pleaded guilty �the court would sentenced me to 8 months home confinement or working as a janitor(no pay) at the local Police Dept. �I opted for the no pay job. Moreover I would �no longer have to register in 7 more years. The girl friend moved to out of state where she was found guilty of killing her drug dealer in a hotel room. At that time �I never had more than traffic ticket at the age of 39 in 1979 when this happened. In 1998, �I was shocked when police arrested me for not registering as SO. �I was sentenced to 1 year in county jail for not…
originally posted 9/5/2009 I am a 72 yr old mother of a grown son who was falsely accused by his step-daughter, when her mother wanted a divorce. My daughter-in- law would call me up and demand money, several thousand dollars, and she would say, “If I don’t get it, I’ll have (my daughter) accuse of “so and so” (and it would be worse accusations than the girl had already made.) I told the law, but they didn’t believe me. Nobody believed my son, or me, or his son. My son’s son now lives with me. I support him and myself on my social security. He is persecuted at school by some of the kids and some of the teachers. He suffers depression and is in mental health treatment. He recently changed schools. I have to drive him 20 miles to school, which comes to 40 miles a day. I wish there were some way to end this hysteria, but, then…
originally posted 9/4/2009 I am 31 years old, and have been living for the past 8 years with this “sex offender” title over my head. In 2000 I was a manager (22 yr old) at a fast food restaurant in a small town in TN. I was new to the town and was not well liked. I was brought there to rebuild this restaurant as it had basically fallen apart. My efforts were commended by most everyone as the place got cleaned up and business picked up. Everything was going great, until one day, a Friday night, I had two no-call, no-shows ( two 17 year old male students) not show up for work. This was the third time. They were close friends and were always together. Well when employees saw them come through via the drive through, I decided to call their parents and inform them that their kids were not at work where they were supposed to be and instead told…
originally posted 8/28/2009 My son has now been on probation 4 weeks. His emotions are up and down, as would be expected with any and all charged with these crimes and then completely losing their privacy. To further complicate, he also suffers from bi-polar disorder so I worry alot about him, having dealt with multiple suicide attempts since he was eleven. He’s also a self injurer and has often felt that he *needs* to die. The years have been hard, and it’s taken a lot of work and support to have him stabilized and then, his world, our world, came crashing down with this conviction. But, even with distance between us and family and friends, he has a strong support network which is helping and giving him some time to heal. When I told him about getting involved with RSOL, at first he was elated. And then he began to worry, not wanting any exposure or attention drawn to him, fearing for personal vendettas from…
originally posted 8/27/2009 It seems no matter how hard we try to change some of these laws we will not be able to. �Once a law is made it is forever on the books and rarely ever changed. �I was 19 years old and met a girl who was 14 years old at the mall. �well we ended up having sex and dated for just a few weeks and than we stopped seeing each other ..Almost 2 years went by and I was called down town and asked about how I knew this girl…..Long story short – her parents found an old letter that she wrote to one of her girl friends about me and her parents read it and went down town to file a complaint. �This was 2 years later. � By that time, I have a fiance and she is 4 months pregnant with our baby! �I go to court for the having sex with a girl…
originally posted 8/25/2009 The registry, more than the original offense, is why my son is incarcerated today. False accusations exist more than most people would believe. In 1998, my son K pleaded guilty to sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl. It was an Alford plea, meaning that while he maintained his innocence, it was believed that the state had enough evidence to convict him at a trial. The plea was agreed to during a 15-minute meeting with K’s- then-attorney, Warren Brown, as the trial deadline loomed. K had terrible legal representation. The nature and consequences of taking an Alford plea were not explained to us or understood by us. When I suggested “maybe we should think about it…”, the lawyer got up from his seat very angrily and said in a belligerent way “well, alright then, we’ll go to trial”. This was, believe me, very frightening. He also never told my son or me that it was the same as…
originally posted 8/23/2009 My son went to register for college today and of course, he had to go to the security office. Now they have real cops there and he told them, he is a registered SO. They asked him, what was the offense? He told them he had asked some girls if they needed a ride; he never got out of the car, never touched or promised anything. So he got sentenced for luring of a minor. The cops at the college looked at each other and said they had never heard of anything like that and this should never have been a registrable offense . My son came to my job and to see in his face all the pain of the last 8 years, the frustration and the health issues due to all this crap; I cried all the way home! I am 55 years old and I cried for the pain of my son! In the afternoon I had…
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