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See all 36 CommentsMy mentally-ill son was falsely accused many years ago. The girl grew up and recanted and gave a strong deposition. The prosecutor in Maryland won't reconsider the case..it's been in limbo for years. When a child lies (which she said she did because she was trying to think of a way to get my son away from her older sister, who she was very attached to.) Her grandmother and another woman gave her the idea, she said because they thought my son was "wierd"...same word the prosecutor used. My son's looks and personality made him appear strange (he has schizoaffective disorder, like his father did). He trusted people much too easily. In this neighborhood called Pigtown, he was a lamb among wolves. I've learned getting accused is easy. Getting a false accusation overturned can take forever. The Innocence Project was interested in my son's case but they are overloaded and have little funding. I hope people begin to look at these laws and begin to make distinctions..but, there has been a real witch hunt in the U.S. about sex offenses and so there's been few distinctions made and once accused, you're guilty forever.
If you are someone who does care about justice, educate yourself and help us in this David-Goliath fight Catching and persecuting people who don't deserve it doesn't help protect our children from those who do. http://www.csom.org/pubs/mythsfacts.html
http://ilvoices.com/media/23945d47d1a0fd37ffff810bffffe415.pdf
http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2011-05-are-we-being-smart-about-sex-offenders
Read Jim and Nancy Petro's book "False Justice" and Richard Wrights' "Sex Offender Laws: Failed Policies, New Directions"and Sean Penn's "Witch hunt" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0C2aQprdIM
http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org/
My mentally-ill son was falsely accused many years ago. The girl grew up and recanted and gave a strong deposition. The prosecutor in Maryland won't reconsider the case..it's been in limbo for years. When a child lies (which she said she did because she was trying to think of a way to get my son away from her older sister, who she was very attached to.) Her grandmother and another woman gave her the idea, she said because they thought my son was "wierd"...same word the prosecutor used. My son's looks and personality made him appear strange (he has schizoaffective disorder, like his father did). He trusted people much too easily. In this neighborhood called Pigtown, he was a lamb among wolves. I've learned getting accused is easy. Getting a false accusation overturned can take forever. The Innocence Project was interested in my son's case but they are overloaded and have little funding. I hope people begin to look at these laws and begin to make distinctions..but, there has been a real witch hunt in the U.S. about sex offenses and so there's been few distinctions made and once accused, you're guilty forever.
If you are someone who does care about justice, educate yourself and help us in this David-Goliath fight Catching and persecuting people who don't deserve it doesn't help protect our children from those who do. http://www.csom.org/pubs/mythsfacts.html
http://ilvoices.com/media/23945d47d1a0fd37ffff810bffffe415.pdf
http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2011-05-are-we-being-smart-about-sex-offenders
Read Jim and Nancy Petro's book "False Justice" and Richard Wrights' "Sex Offender Laws: Failed Policies, New Directions"and Sean Penn's "Witch hunt" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0C2aQprdIM
http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org/
This is a great example of how perverse "Texas justice" is while pursued by "law and order" types.
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