originally posted 2/2/2009 I have been a businessman in Albuquerque for 20 years. I served time, and am living a clean and sober life today with a wonderful wife of 40 years, who has forgiven and inspired me to live Godly. God has given me the privilege of preaching approximately once a month. I remain, a servant of man because of God’s forgiving love. Fred V. Ruston, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1/18/2009 My 30 year old son has pleaded guilty of distribution of child porn. He is now awaiting sentencing. I am heartbroken. My son is deaf and had no idea how serious his crime was and how his life is now ruined. He can no longer live with his own children.
originally posted 1/18/2009 In 1986 i was convicted of 2nd degree sexual assault, the one & only criminal offense I’ve ever had in my 74 years of life . Everything I’ve read here by Mr Shannon is sooo very,very true ! Even today after 26 years (from the time of the alleged offense), my sentence continues on a daily basis . I’ve had no support as the family has taken a back seat to how i must live with the new laws & restrictions which I’m subject to as a offender . I only wish I would have known about this hotline years ago. Isolated and suffering in Mississippi
originally posted 1/18/2009 As all of you are aware I have been fighting to save my son, PJ since he had gone into a severe depression last year. We thought he had snapped out of it last summer, but then bizarre behavior this fall after he was arrested near a school had us believing he was doing street drugs. Since Christmas he has been in a sever psychotic state which only led us to believe that he was doing street dugs. Last Friday it was so severe we called 911 for help and when everyone arrived we were told that since he was not talking of harming himself or anyone else that there was nothing they could do. The paranoia, delusions, anger and constant rambling increased and on Tuesday we were once again forced to call 911. PJ is 5’4 and weighs 112 (a loss of 17 lbs in two months). It took 4 cops to hold him down. Long…
originally posted 1/17/2009 (I am marking this as private because there are problems in logic with the story; sandy) (Kinda makes my head hurt…. mike) My story, well its complicated. When I was 18-19 I was a very promiscuous young man. I have never lied about that and I made a couple bad choices. I slept with my 15 year old girlfriend. I did know her age. It was just a bad choice. But I thought, I love her, – a misdemeanor would be worth it. What I didn’t know is they were setting up an internet sting. They came looking for me, and told me they were just visiting my area and asked what there was to do here. I made a sexual comment. She told me, I’m only 15 though, and I said, Well I’m outta here. Then – wow -they came to my door, and I’m a felon! What’s worse is I have to register for 10 years….
originally posted 1/10/2009 I want to state that I am NOT a sex offender, but I have committed a sex offense. The term “sex offender” implies continued behaviors. I am, by “legal” terms a sex offender, but admitting that hinders any chances of me being treated like a human being. I am now living in an RV on a piece of land with no running water or sewage, electricity and I keep getting death threats where I live. I am in the process of getting recordings of the threats and vandalism. Cops in this town say I don’t have to live there. What they don’t understand is that I am on parole, and parole forces me to look elsewhere for a place to live.. nowhere near schools, parks, daycare centers and other places where children regularly congregate. What this means, is virtually no place is available for me. It’s only being enforced on parolees in California. Additionally, if I register as a transient, I…
originally posted 12/28/2008 My son was arrested last May because of a Police Sting out of Florida. His picture was put on the local media in Oklahoma as a sex offender before he was even charged with a crime. What happened to presumed innocent until proven guilty? I don’t think that applies in this country anymore. After being taken to Florida, the so-called Public Defender assigned to his case told his wife that he was guilty and would probably spend 8 to 10 years in Prison. I assume the Public Defender was going to do nothing to help him which forced us to obtain an attorney and spend all the savings we had to do so in order to help our son. His attorney called this a “Created Crime”, created by the police. It’s as if there is not enough crime in this country so the police create new crimes, I guess we really do live in a Police State, not a…
originally posted 12/28/2008 I, too, am the Mother of an adult son who was convicted of having(very old) child pornography on his computer. The FBI had no conclusive proof of this, just a hint. None the less, they went to “visit” my son, and being the honest person he is, he admitted them to his home and spoke with them. (They did not have a warrant, because they didn’t have proof; but coerced my son into a signed confession of possesion and confiscated two computers, then came back 2 1/2 years later to arrest him.) My son is 1 year into a 97 month sentence for 2 counts of possession. His 97 months may as well be a life sentence,although he does have the support of his two sisters, his father and myself along with a few really good friends who know he is NOT a sex offender, even though the laws passed by our “congress” say he is. I…
originally posted 12/16/2008 I am an elderly male, disabled, convicted sex offender; I have never touched or hurt anyone. I passed some illicit photos on the internet. I served 15 months in prison, but the worst was yet to come; I cannot find subsidized housing. I barely exist on my small social security income. but the worst is I will have to register for the rest of my life. I am regretful for what I did, but it is unfair as I have never hurt anyone. The laws need to be changed.
originally posted 12/16/2008 My son (same name…I am “Jr” he is “III”) has been convicted and served prison time after being entrapped by Law Enforcement. He had been 8 years in the Army and served this country in both Iraq and S. Korea (hence the “patriot” moniker). I served in the Air Force in the early 70s…considered myself a patriotic veteran – no longer however! I will not even fly the flag anymore. At my age, to lose one’s fundamental “belief system” is devastating.
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