originally posted 6/22/2009 The comforting of my grandchild (2 yrs old)after he fell out of bed, while I was in the bathroom, landed me a sex offender for life (sexual assault of a minor). I lost my house, my job, my family (wife was fired three times from jobs because she was still married to me for 23 years -all gone) my dignity. I simple hugged him to stop him from crying, and him being sexually assaulted by a peer during day care caused social services to blame me for actions I did not do. My grandson bumped into me while I was standing up. I pushed him away immediately and told him you don’t do that. He turned and walked away. 11 years later, no work, no job, no means to feed myself, turned away from shelters and housing in Wisconsin. All from a simple incidental/accidental touch. I took the responsibility to protect my grandson from social services’ dirty filthy minds, and I’ll pay for that for the…
originally posted 6/22/2009 My son was convicted and is serving 15 years in federal confinement because he was a lonely young man on a computer. He NEVER touched a child. He never took the pictures on his computer nor was he accused of doing so. But because of “federal guidelines,” X number of photographs (each FRAME of a video counting as a photograph) equated to 15 years in prison. Many of these pictures he’d never seen, some were in the deleted part of the computer…didn’t matter that he’d never been in any trouble, worked hard, and was a good citizen. The other young man arrested in the same “sting” had posted sexual pictures of himself to a 13 year old girl across state lines with the intent of luring her to Texas…he only got 5 years. And my son will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his life.
originally posted 6/19/2009 My son also was taken at the young age of 18 and is now 27 yrs old. It has been a nightmare and has been a repeating cycle of in and out of prison for the smallest violations. This nightmare began in 2002 in which he was sentenced to a year county time for lewd conduct with a minor. He had been living with this family in which the mother had picked up my son to go and live with her and her two daughters; the mother lied to my son about her daughters age and introduced him to meth. This was a party house and my son had been up for four days and one evening when he was laying on the sofa the mother approached him sexually when he refused she stated that he had made the biggest mistake of his life and would pay for rejecting her; this is when she called the local police and made the…
originally posted 6/6/2009 My son was falsely convicted of attempted sexual assult. He didn’t rape anyone, and he spent three and a half years in prison. My best friend is in the process of speaking with the so called victim and demanding she tell the truth of what really happened. My son has been out of prison since 2003 and up till now hasn’t been in trouble. His new crime is he moved and failed to register his new address and now has been arrested twice for the same offense! My son isn’t a rapist and never will be. The state wants to send him back to prison for failing to register his new address. How could anyone call this justice which is what our judicial system is about??? I think not!
originally posted 4/16/2009 As a registered sex offender, my life is constantly torn. Ripped and thrown out of jobs, accused of speaking wrong, thrown from living space after living space. The public presumes that one mistake is mistake that will repeat itself over and over again. Despite all of the negative impact, I maintain involvement with volunteering, belong to book clubs, and more importantly keep in mind: no one can take my dignity and who I am today.
originally posted 6/14/2009 I am a registered offender; I have never touched a child in any way. My crime was all computer related. This was a mistake I’ll regret for the rest of my life. I have done my time and all, yet I am still required to register twice a year and pay $150.00 each year. I think that I should not be classified the same as those who have done something with a child. I feel I have been punished long enough and want to know what can be done to change the laws.
originally posted 6/14/2009 I’ve grown up being isolated, away from everyone, basically due to autism. People at school making fun of my weight, my mother and father, just rejecting me all through to the end of my schooling in the public system. I’ve locked myself up alone in my own room, turned to the internet for friends, for relationships, for fun. My means of communication with people who didn’t make me feel like crap. Using sites like myspace.com, I met my first relationship with a girl around 16 on these sites, but I never to this date ever had a real relationship in person, Never had a in person girl friend or friends. I have body dimorphic disorder; I make myself throw up; I also have severe clinical depression, anxiety, and Social Phobia. I used to be suicidal, cutting myself non stop, always passing out from blood loss. I had friends on the internet, via xbox , pc, whom I…
originally posted 6/11/2009 I am the wife of a registered sex offender in (a southern state). My husband’s offense occurred 25 years ago when he was 18 in another with a 15 year old minor. His offense is not even illegal in this state due to age of consent as defined under this state`s laws; yet he is required to register as a lifetime registrant in our state, the classification reserved for the most serious offenders. Of course, we have endured very many negative consequences over the years due to the registry. We lost our home of over 10 years due to residency restrictions and now our state has passed a sweeping law that prohibits registered sex offenders from being on schools grounds. We have two school age children. For over 15 years, we have silently endured the humiliation and consequences of these sweeping laws; now our days of silence are over. I came across your website and I’m interested in…
originally posted 6/9/2009 It just amazes me how the registry laws are in effect, yet even the police have no idea what the “actual” laws are. Here’s what has taken place . . . when my son was first put on the sex offender registry, he went to the police department and told them where he was working (his manager kept his job for the 3 months he was in jail). The police told him that he could not work there because there was a school across the street and it fell within the 500 feet restriction. His manager then transferred him to another store in another city and again, the police told him he had to quit because it was across the street from a high school. They actually went into the store and told the manager that he could not work there – imagine the embarrassment of that one. Well, during the last month or so I have…
originally posted 6/9/2009 I was 4 when I remember being abused sexually by my stepfather. That went on with him off and on until I told him to stop at age 14. He let his friend (my uncle), take me to his house to stay. He also abused me for many years off and on. I suspect now that my stepfather was paid for this. I was taken to a friend of my “uncles” house where no abuse happened but the attempt was made. I had to endure a naked disgusting man. I was once tied up by the neighbor`s boy down the street naked and left there until a man from a business untied me. I was then at the age of 14 raped by my sister`s girlfriend who was 19. . My stepfather had gotten in trouble by my older brother who turned him in, and we were removed from the home. I had been put in a…
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