My Blessings of 2011

It's been a tough year, but I do have alot of Blessings from 2011. Here's a short list:

- I wasn't sent back to prison/jail

-This was the longest I've not been a convict or fugitive since 1988

- No one harassed, humiliated, or degraded  me all year

- I turned 50

- Kept this Blog going all year

- I quit smoking

- Have not used alcohol or drugs

- My health is good

- I started medication for PTSD/Depression

- Had a roof over my head all year

- My van didn't break down

- Fought a good fight against The Sex Crime Witch Hunt

- Made some new friends in our fight

- and on and on

Yes, I have been blessed this year. I have to remember that when times get tough. I'm all pack up and ready to move into my new motel tomorrow. I can only stay a month, then I'll be forced to move again. Oh well, what can a guy do. I have 22 months left on parole here in CA. After I complete It I'm headed back to Alaska. HAVE A GREAT NEW YEARS EVE !!!

New Webpages/Blogs

Here's a couple new webpages/blogs I stumbled upon

Abolish Sex Offender Registry
http://abolishsexoffenderregistry.blogspot.com/

Women Against Registry
http://abolishsexoffenderregistry.blogspot.com/

The Angry Offender
http://angryoffender.com/

I'm Back !

     Yep, I'm back. Really went off the deep end for a few weeks. Came close a couple times to cutting this damn GPS Shackle off my leg and hitting the road again. Being a fugitive has long been second nature to me. Have rabbit in my blood. With the stress of complying with Jessica's Law and with the holidays I went nuts for awhile. My mother, father, grandmother, and sister all died within a span of a couple years. I miss them dearly and the holidays really bring out my heartache. I was a fugitive in 2008 and could not attend my sisters funeral. The Police/FBI would have been laying in wait. I will be moving from this Fleabag motel on New Years Day to another Fleabag motel down the street, but have been told I will only be allowed to live there for one month and will be forced to move again. My P.O. told me he doesn't care if I wind up living on the streets because I'm a sex offender. As always, I had to inform him I am not a sex offender. We got in a heated argument outside my current motel room that was heard by my neighbors. To make a long story short, I have gotten on medication to deal with this all. Jessica's Law was/is driving me crazy. How are we suppose to live under such conditions? It's pure insanity. Hopefully I can hang on until Oct. 23rd, 2013 and I can get the hell out of California. I have land in Alaska given to me by my tribe. I'm 1/2 Aleut (Alaskan Native). Was a commercial fisherman back in the day. Have you ever seen Deadliest Catch? I've done that. Worked out of a dozen ports in Alaska. I want to build myself a cabin and be left the hell alone. 22 months to go and I can tell California's Jessica's Law to shove it. Sorry about the flake out. 25 years of fighting this battle will drive anyone over the edge. The medication seems to be helping. I'm back on track. Thanks for being my friends. We need each other's support.

Mt. View, CA Teen Admits She Lied About "Rape"

http://cryrape.blogspot.com/

Unnamed 16yo Teenager

Teen recants Mtn. View sexual assault story
16-year-old girl had told police she was groped in Whisman Park

by Nick Veronin

Mountain View Voice Staff

Mountain View police said that a 16-year-old girl who told officers she had been sexually assaulted in Whisman Park in late September has recanted her story.

On Oct. 14, police spokeswoman Liz Wylie issued a press release reporting that the girl had been groped by two men in a bathroom in Whisman Park sometime between 6 and 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 26, 27 or 28.

Wylie said on Oct. 21 that the girl had "confirmed to us that no assault of any kind occurred."

"Due to her status as a juvenile, I will not be releasing any more information what-so-ever as to how we know it didn't happen, what she said to us, etc.," Wylie wrote in a press release, sent out at about 3:30 p.m. "In the same way that people sometimes legitimately delay reporting very real crimes for various personal reasons, sometimes people report crimes that did not at all happen for various personal reasons."

Wylie added, "The important thing is that there (are) not two men out there attacking women."

The Real Costs of Prisons Weblog Needs Our Help!

The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

December 30, 2011

YEARLY REQUEST FOR YOUR SUPPORT! Please read and donate!

“A world of thanks for your advocacy efforts on behalf of us who have scant access to the media and outside groups.”
---Dirceu, Massachusetts.
Dear Friend and Supporter of the Real Cost of Prisons Project,
Once a year we ask for your support for the Real Cost of Prisons Project. Our goal this year is to raise $20,000. We are a third of the way there. Your tax-deductible donation helps to support the RCPP and our commitment to broadening and deepening the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists, both in and out of prison, working to end mass incarceration.
Our work:
Advocacy and organizing with, and on behalf of prisoners challenging inhumane conditions of confinement such as solitary confinement; the daily degradation of prisoners by guards and those in authority; exposing the inadequate health care and food prisoners receive; working to end the barbaric shackling of women prisoners in labor and delivery; and contesting restrictions on reading material and mail. Additional organizing focuses include ending Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Juvenile Life Without the Possibility of Parole, Three Strikes, and stopping the expansion of other extremely punitive sentences.
(Your donation can be made through Community Futures Collective (link) http://www.realcostofprisons.org/donate.html. Or if you prefer, you can send a check to the CFC, 221 Idora Avenue, Vallejo, CA 94591. Please make your check payable to Community Futures Collective/RCPP.)

Creating and providing materials to strengthen the organizing capacity of activists:
*Sending more than 125,000 copies of our three free comic books (Prison Town - Paying the Price, Prisoners of the War on Drugs, and Prisoners of a Hard Life - Women and Their Children) to prisoners, literacy groups, schools, "books through bars" organizations, and organizations working against mass incarceration. We send comic books everyday: to prisoners; high schools in Boston, San Francisco, Oakland and East Palo Alto CA; Books Through Bars Projects in Fort Collins, CO and St. Louis; a peer education program in a Texas prison; Occupy in Phoenix; and an End the New Jim Crow Conference in NY, to name a few examples.

From a prisoner in New Mexico: “I read your name in a resource guide and would really love to receive your comic books that focus on drugs, prison and hard life. I too am very concerned with this paragon of bureaucratic dysfunction we call the prison system.”
*Providing information and materials to prisoner activists to strengthen their organizing. Recently we have provided materials about juvenile life without parole to a prisoner working on a Youth-At-Risk newsletter, assisting another prisoner doing research and writing about expanding education in prison and locating expert witnesses to testify in a case in Federal Court in a suit against a prison mailroom preventing a prisoner’s comix from leaving the prison.
“Thank you so much for your letter. I have to say, this is the most informational letter which I have received in quite some time. Thanks for that. All too often those outside of prison simply disregard those in prison and what they have to say.” Chris, Virginia
*Website sections, Writing from Prison” and “Comix from Inside” create a strong, unique platform for the ideas and analysis of prisoners through our ever-expanding group of authors and cartoonists.

*Networking prisoner activists with other activist/organizers inside and outside of prison to expand connections nationwide. A few examples include two RCPP prisoner writers in California who have found themselves in the same cellblock who are exchanging work and ideas; one prisoner in Pennsylvania recommending to another in California that the RCPP website would be a good way to get his work out and discovering the prisoner in California is a regular contributor to the RCPP website; an organizer of a NY art show and auction in support of the CA hunger strikers seeking and receiving artwork from RCPP cartoonists; and RCPP writers and cartoonist’s work being published, reprinted in newsletters, used in classes, and incorporated into other websites.

From James Anderson in Oregon: “Four years ago you posted 2 of my pieces of work on your website. I was recently contacted by a professor from San Jose Univ. about giving my permission to use my poetry as part of his class, which was awesome and definitely an honor for me.”
*The Real Cost of Prisons website and newsblog receives more than 2,000 unique visits daily. The website includes links to our daily news blog, new research, and links to organizations, books, and videos and writing and comix from prisoners.
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Please consider making a monthly donation of $10, $20, $50 or more. Or please make a onetime donation from $5 to $5,000. Every dollar we receive will be put to careful and effective use.
Your donation can be made through Community Futures Collective (link) http://www.realcostofprisons.org/donate.html. Or if you prefer, you can send a check to the CFC, 221 Idora Avenue, Vallejo, CA 94591. Please make your check payable to Community Futures Collective/RCPP.
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CA Prisons Shedding Inmates Fast

California prisons shedding inmates fast By John Gramlich, Stateline Staff Writer

TODAY'S TAKE California Governor Jerry Brown has had mixed results on a range of policy initiatives during his first year back in office, but one of his most successful efforts may be the rapid decline in the state's teeming prison population. On Tuesday (December 27), corrections officials detailed just how swift the inmate decline has been. California prisons have been shedding about 900 inmates a week and are nearly on pace to meet the aggressive target set by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, when it ordered the state to reduce its prisoner population to 110,000 inmates by the spring of 2013, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "As of today," the paper reported, "the state’s prisons held 134,804 inmates," with the reduction in numbers just 1,800 less than an initial goal set by the high court in advance of the 2013 deadline. Earlier this year, the California inmate population exceeded 150,000, as Stateline noted in an April feature about overcrowded facilities. That huge population, and the state's long-running effort to reduce it, led the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in May, citing unconstitutionally bad prison conditions. The state's response to the high court was to pass a prison "realignment" plan, which went into effect in October and requires low-level offenders to serve their time in county jails rather than state facilities. While the plan has had the intended effect of easing the state prison population, many counties say they cannot handle the influx of new inmates. Some law enforcement officials have said that the policy is a dangerous one. From the state's perspective, however, low-level offenders should not be serving time in state prisons anyway, and the Brown administration is pressing forward as it tries to comply with the Supreme Court order. "The progress puts the state exactly where it said it would be in an August court filing," the Chronicle reports, noting that the next target is to reduce the prison population by another 10,000 inmates — to 124,000 — by June 27. "Today’s Take” provides a quick analysis of the day’s top news in state government. — Contact John Gramlich at jgramlich@stateline.org

Fuck It !

   I say goodbye my friends. Can not take this shit anymore. I would rather live underground or die. A man can only take so much. Would rather live on the the run. See you on the other side.  J.A.

Found a "Home"

    With my upcoming eviction due to Jessica's Law residential restrictions I found a temporary "home". Another hotel. One of the only hotels in this county that is in compliance to the Jessica's Law 2,000 foot "Predator Free Zones" that cover 75+% of this county. I've been living in the same hotel now for over a year, but the city is building a park down the street and I have been ordered to move by Jan. 1st, 2012. The hotel I'm currently staying in on a Hotel Row with 4 hotels that RSO's stay in because there's nowhere else to live. All 30+ guys have been ordered to move or be arrested. I'm one of them. Now get this. My room is about 1,990 feet away from this upcoming park. I'm being evicted for 10 feet? Absolutely insane. Well, the hotel next to me has 5 rooms that are o.k. and I have already reserved one and will be moving into it on New Years Day. What a relief. I sure wasn't looking forward to living in my van. Last time I lived on the streets was when Jessica's Law was passed by voters in 20006 , so I jumped parole and left the state. I lasted 2 years until my arrest when a neighbor ratted on me for growing marijuana (never said I was an angel) and I was extradited back to CA. It was the 3rd time I walked on a commercial plane in chains to be brought back. Never again. I plan to finish parole no matter what this time and never be in handcuffs again. Don't think I would of made it on the streets again. Too dawn old. The rabbit is run out of me. Plus, like I said before - the bastards always catch me anyway. Speaking of being old. I turn 50 on Friday. 50 years old. Holy Shit! This whole nightmare started when I was 24. Over a quarter century ago. Found a place to hold up for awhile until Oct. 23rd, 2013 and I finally get off parole. Hope time flys, so I can get out of this state. Keep up the good fight.

Lake Forest to Ban All RSO's From City Parks?

   I have about 2 years left on parole here in California and one of the things I most look forward to is going to a park, kick back in the sun, play baseball, have a picnic, ect.... If things keep going like they are I just may be banned forever from parks, the beach, and so on. Here in CA city after city are proposing to ban all RSO's forever from all outside recreational areas. It's crazy and just keeps getting more insane. So the city, county, and/or state are going to tell me because I was falsely accused 27 years ago and wrongly convicted that I am banned from all public places? Looks like that just may be the case. I just can't get over how far The Sex Crime Witch Hunt has gone. Well, you can believe this. When I'm off parole and have this GPS Shackle cut off my leg, that tracks my ever move, I will be going any damn place I want to !!! Here's a recent article on the Lake Forest ban http://lakeforest-ca.patch.com/articles/council-oks-stricter-sex-offender-ban .

Riverside Co. to Ban All RSO's From Halloween?

Should Sex Offenders be able to Decorate for Halloween?

By Sadie West, Hornet Reporter

Published: Thursday, December 1, 2011

Updated: Friday, December 2, 2011 13:12

Supervisor Jeff Stone of Riverside County introduced an ordinance that would ban sex offenders from putting up Halloween decorations and passing out candy to children.
This is unjust to many of the registered sex offenders, taking away more of their constitutional rights.
According to the article in the Los Angeles Times, "the measure would bar registered sex offenders from answering the door to trick-or-treating children or decorating their homes with Halloween decorations between 12 A.M. and 11:59 P.M. on October 31 each year.
Beyond that, they would be prohibited from leaving any external lights on between 5 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Halloween night."When the term sex offender is first heard, one usually thinks that the person must have molested a child or shown off their genitals to a child, but this is not necessarily true.
The dictionary definition of a sex offender is a person who has committed a crime involving a sexual act.
Nowhere does it say that the person committed a sex crime against a child, just a sex crime.
Sex offenses come in many different types.
In order for a person to be registered in the federal system as a sex offender, one must have committed rape or other forms of sexual assault and sexual abuse, obscenity, human trafficking, incest, inappropriate phone calls/sexting, sex with animals, and public order crimes (i.e. public urination, streaking, stealing underwear, etc.).
Of course, what was afore mentioned crimes all can be committed with or against children.
Like any other crime, there are serious and minor differentiations between the many committed.
It is unjust to punish and treat all registered sex offenders the same, when not all of their crimes are the same.
A more serious offense that deserves a more serious punishment is child molestation.
Streaking, or public urination, is a minor offense that does not need a serious course of action.
The registering of sex offenders provides a sense of security and protection for parents in all neighborhoods.
Parents can look up the locations and names of sex offenders in their neighborhoods, which help to prevent and avoid such houses.
Sex offenders should have the right to actively participate in the traditions of Halloween.
Parents should especially be cautious on such a night, taking extra precautions to make sure that nothing happens.
Just because sex offenders decorate their houses or purchase candy to pass out, doesn't mean that their houses will be visited.
Sex offenders are people too, people with sexual deviant behavior, but people nonetheless.
Crimes committed by the offenders are already taken care of and regulated by the government, as unjustly as it is.
It's unnecessary and cruel for more rules and regulations to be implemented.
Although sex offenders are definitely to blame for their actions, it's not right for even more rules to be added.
Halloween has been celebrated for many, many years.
The government has no place in regulating who gets to celebrate a famous and treasured holiday and who doesn't.
Everyone should be wary of sex offenders in their neighborhoods (and those nearby) and should take precautionary measure, but sex offenders don't need any more punishments added on either.
Halloween is a time of tricks, treats, and costumes, not a time of limitation and punishment.

From: http://www.fchornet.com/opinion/should-sex-offenders-be-able-to-decorate-for-halloween-1.2722434

The SAFAR Newsletter

   It's Saturday morning and here I am at the library again working on my blog, but I'm pooped out. I've been fighting this battle for over 20 years now. I started in 1989 at Oregon State Penitentiary, where I was serving a 10 year sentence, with The Society Against False Accusations of Rape (SAFAR) Newsletter with the help of Betty Duffey. A woman I did not even know until she read about my wrongful conviction in The Liberator. She helped me for years publishing my newsletter and even flew out to see me. The SAFAR Newsletter was sent out to hundreds of convicts throughout the U.S. and lasted 35 editions. I would cut out articles, paste them to paper, copy, and send them out. Very Old School. Postage was expensive, but I got all the copying for free. A fellow convict (not an "inmate") was a former copy machine repairman and would rig our Law Library's copy machine for me to give me all the copies I needed. It was great! Right under the Law Librarian's/guard's nose. I loved it! I still have copies of most of the editions. Seems like a lifetime ago. I would of never dreamed I'd still be in this fight 20+ years later. Oh well, what can I guy do? Give up? Screw that! Every 2 years in the late 80's and almost the entire 90's I have to go in front of a parole board to see if I was to be paroled. I'd always tell them to go fuck themselves. Here's an Open Letter to the board that was published in 1997 in The Backlash. I have less than a month until I will be forced to live in my van due to Jessica's Law residential restrictions. The nightmare never ends. Take care my friends.

An innocent man

Having served several years for a crime I never committed,
I refuse parole.
by J.A., convicted rapist
Copyright © 1997 by J.A.

On April 10th, 1997, I am going to go in front of you to be judged again for a crime I did not commit. I have decided that to accept parole would be in conflict of my many years of proclaiming my innocence. I committed no crime to have all these years stolen out of my life and will not beg for parole. Being an innocent man, I refuse your parole offerings, which is my right under laws in effect at the time of supposed crime (September 5th, 1985). I will serve this prison term until my Good-Time Release Date at which time I will be released. See Bollinger vs. Board of Parole.
I have absolutely no remorse for the crime I was wrongly convicted of, I have not a shred of sympathy for my so-called victim, and I owe no one an apology for my actions. How can I have remorse, empathy, or apologize for something I did not do?
I realize my innocence means nothing to you and the fact I have served over six years in an Oregon prison for a crime I did not commit equally means nothing to you. I have come to realize that prisons and prisoners means more money for you and your kind. I refuse parole because I want nothing more to do with the "Corrections" industry in Oregon.
The woman who falsely accused me of rape on September 5th, 1985, did so in order to file a million dollar lawsuit, and because she is mentally ill with a history of falsely accusing men of sex crimes. I was wrongly convicted because vital evidence about my accuser's past and her motives were not allowed in the courtroom due to unconstitutional Rape Shield Laws that hide important evidence from juries in rape trials. And because rape crisis counselors in Salem, Oregon, gave her acting lessons and coached her how to appear as a real rape victim on the witness stand. My accuser, Donna Jean Rowland, of Albany, Oregon, was awarded $24,000.00 for her fraud.

Editor's note: As demonstrated on 60 Minutes or 20/20 in 1996, during Airline crash civil trials, the personal history, including sexual history, of crash victims and their family are routinely introduced into evidence by Airline and Insurance company lawyers. Why is it okay in that case, but not in rape cases?

Because I am not what you call a "sex offender" I will also be filing a lawsuit so I will not be forced to register as a "sex offender" once I am released from prison. I believe over six years out of my life is enough for the state of Oregon and I will not give up my privacy and dignity by being forced to register as a "sex offender." I believe these sex offender community notification laws are unconstitutional and a form of double jeopardy. I will not take part in this further injustice.
I will also not take part in any "sex offender" treatment programs or any other behavior modification classes. As I have stated, I am not a sex offender and was wrongly convicted of Rape because my so-called fair trial was rigged to ensure a conviction. Why should I subject myself to "sex offender" treatment? So some sex offender counselor can justify his job? Would it not be a waste of time for not only myself but also for Oregon's sex offender treatment industry, for me to partake in a "treatment" I do not need or want?
In 1990, another Oregon Parole Board said I should serve four years in prison for my so-called crime and be released. They stated for the record that:

• The "victim" was not harmed in any way.
• No threats were made at the "victim."
• The "crime" contained no violence.
• And Vern Faatz, the head of the Parole Board in 1990, said that the "victim" aided in the "crime."

I was to be released from this charge in 1995, but as you recall you ruled that even though I presented you with two positive psych exams that I must have a mental disorder because I refuse to "confess," so I must be too dangerous to be released.
Now, another one of your bought-and-paid-for state psychologists who prostitutes themselves to Oregon's Parole Board interviewed me for half an hour and has come to the conclusion I am in "denial" of my crime, so I must be too dangerous for society. What a farce! His evaluation of my mental and emotional health is not worth the paper it is written on. The only reasons your State Psychologists label prisoners mentally ill is because you pay them, thus allowing you to take away parole dates, keep more prisoners to fill your prison beds, and expand Oregon's multi-million dollar Prison Industry.
The years that you and your kind have stolen out of my life is enough. I owe you nothing more. As a matter of fact, someone owes me and my family an apology. But I know that is beyond those who profit off the backs of innocence and that justice and truth are just empty words to those who line their pockets with money made off of prisons and prisoners. The Oregon Prison Industry has made enough money off my misery. I am not a commodity for your prison warehouses.
I want to be left alone and have my life back. I hope you understand I have too much pride, honor, and integrity to accept your gracious parole. Thank you for your time and effort.
Sincerely, J.A.                                 http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1997/7-dec97/safar07.html

Global Conglomerate 3M and GPS Shackles

   This horrid GPS Shackle I have locked on my ankle was made by a company called Pro-Tech which has recently been purchased by the global conglomerate 3M which knows a money maker when It sees one. GPS Shackles for everyone! Gee, we sure will be safe then and just think of all the jobs GPS Shackles provide. So what that these barbaric devices do nothing to protect the public. Big deal that hundreds of million of taxpayer dollars are totally wasted on these GPS Balls and Chains every year. Doesn't matter that Law Enforcement time and energy is taken up by tracking GPS Shackles. 3M is racking in hundreds of millions !!! That's all that matters ! You can bet that 3M will be spending millions on lobbyists and propaganda to promote their new "product". An excellent article in Mother Jones Magazine (a magazine I subscribed to in prison) was recently published on how Hi-Tech Company's are making a killing on GPS for sex offenders. Here's a link to It:


 http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/jessicas-law-surveillance-corporations


   As with alot about The Sex Crime Witch Hunt, It all boils down to money. Follow the money and you'll see why GPS Shackles have become so popular. It needs to be exposed now!!!

Here's the link to 3M, their new product, and "About Us"

 http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ElectronicMonitoring/?WT.mc_id=www.3m.com/electronicmonitoring

About Us

The specific needs and considerations of remote offender monitoring programs within the criminal justice industry have always been the focal point of 3M Electronic Monitoring’s operations. This position has enabled 3M Electronic Monitoring to accumulate a wealth of technical and industry expertise, covering the full spectrum of offender monitoring and tracking product solutions and technologies. The majority of 3M Electronic Monitoring’s financial and human resources are dedicated to customer support, design, engineering and development activities, ensuring delivery of the best available monitoring technology solutions for our customers. This flexible, customer-oriented approach to the design process and service delivery enables 3M Electronic Monitoring to provide high quality products and services.
With a presence in more than 25 countries, 3M Electronic Monitoring is a leading global provider of presence and location verification technologies for the criminal justice industry. We offer a complete suite of proprietary products and services. Our solutions can be customized, and are based upon a full-featured, integrated platform that is scalable and highly flexible to meet each organization’s unique needs now and in the future. As an industry innovator, 3M Electronic Monitoring offers technologies to support law enforcement, corrections, and security operations.

CA RSOL Needs Our Help

   Recieved an e-mail this morning from CA RSOL and they need our help. I'll be sending my $10 donation this morning. They're fighting for US, so let's give them a hand. You can find out about CA RSOL at: http://www.californiarsol.org/

Could you possibly post this on the 'Jessica's Law Nightmare' website? I realize you might not approve this or be comfortable with this, and it's sort of a bold request, but it's our D-Day (CA RSO's) coming up in January. it's VERY important for us, and might start moving the rest of the US in a certain direction, But, Janice needs all the donations she can get to facilitate this action. 

THE $10 CHALLENGE: LET'S END THE LIFETIME REGISTRY !

We have a unique opportunity to end the state's lifetime registry through passage of California Assembly Bill 625.  That bill, if passed, would create a tiered registry under which registrants could leave the registry in as little as 10 years.  The deadline to pass that bill is January 31, 2012. 

There is much we all can do as individuals and as an organization, including (1) write a letter to your State Assemblyperson, (2) join California RSOL in lobbying Sacramento on January 17 and January 18 as well as (3) donate $10 or a multiple thereof ($10 for each registrant you can support).  Please make your donation payable to California RSOL and send it to 8721 Santa Monica Blvd., Box 855, Los Angeles, CA 90069.  For more information, call Janice Bellucci at (805) 896-7854.                                                                           

New Blog - The Sex Crimes Witch Hunt

http://sexcrimeswitchhunt.wordpress.com/ 

The Sex Crimes Witch Hunt 

The most significant sexual threat to male health since HIV

About

Important note: This website does not condone rape, sexual assault or any form of violence against children, women or men.
I am a successful professional who was falsely accused of a minor sex crime in 2009. At first I didn’t really take it seriously knowing I was innocent I thought the whole thing would blow over. Well it didn’t!
In 2011 I was convicted.
Because I received a suspended sentence, no humiliating ongoing psychological assessments and no fine I was afraid to appeal in case the sentence might be worse if I was found guilty a second time (I no longer believe in justice).
I am now on the soul destroying sex offenders register and have had to pay huge damages to my accuser. The amounts I have had to pay out in defence fees and compensation have caused me significant debt. If I was not such a strong man this episode could easily have destroyed my life.
Since this happened to me I have taken an active interest in the sex crime witch hunt. This witch hunt is happening in all the developed western countries.
Very few people are standing up for the rights of men who have been convicted of sex crimes. Normally cultivated and intelligent people are capable of behaving like animals when this subject is brought up.
Well they have picked on the wrong guy this time. It’s now time to defeat this witch hunt. I call on all intelligent accused and convicted sex offenders to refuse this isolation and shame and fight back. Some of our most successful men are victims of this oppression. Brothers let’s take this lynch mob down!
Whether you are innocent or guilty doesn’t matter. Sex crimes have the lowest repeat offender rate despite the claims of these facist oppressors.
The medieval public pillory that is the Internet sex offenders registry must be sent back to the dark ages where it belongs.
Although I was taught to be cautious from an early age I have decided to speak out, on the level, in order to make my contribution to the fight for a square deal for all men and women…

Anderson Cooper's Show on Jessica's Law

   Have not heard back from Anderson Cooper's Daytime Talkshow about appearing on his show next week to talk about the negative effects of Jessica's Law, but that's fine. I just hope they get someone good who knows what he's talking about. Will the show be the typical sensationalism crap the media uses when talking about Jessica's Law? I hope not. The show is to air next week on live TV. Let other's in the fight know. Here's a link to his show: http://www.andersoncooper.com/ .

A Motion for Innocence Blog has Moved

   A Motion for Innocence Blog has moved. It's ran by Shaun Webb, a fellow falsely accused man who had his ass kicked by our so-called Justice System and is fighting our corrupt legal system. You can find his blog now at:  http://amotionforinnocence.wordpress.com/ . Keep up the good fight Shaun! Here's a blurb about Shaun's first book. Be sure to visit his Blog.
  
A Motion for Innocence…And Justice for All?
This was my first work.  I wrote it between December 2009 and April 2010.  It was a true story about me and my clash with a crooked and one-sided criminal justice system.  The real story took place in Michigan, but I had to fictionalize names and locations to avoid any litigation being brought forth by people who wanted no part of this book.  I used police reports, court hearings, and witness statements to help compile the work.  Mixed with my real adventure, this book was a chance for me to speak.  I am very proud of this book and it continues to do well a year and a half after its release.  It was originally called A Motion for Innocence, but after hiring a professional editor and repairing the book from stem to stern, And Justice for All? was added to the title.  The original cover was also scraped and replaced with a much more effective photo showing a man looking out of jail bars.  After receiving a letter from a man claiming that the photo was a copyright infringement, I opted to use my very own photo of a man praying so there would be no mistake as to who the cover art belonged to.  The reviews have been outstanding and it seems that the book has definitely hit some very important social issues.

Anderson Cooper's Daytime Show to do Show on the Negative Effects of Jessica's Law

   Yesterday, I received an e-mail from an assistant to the producer from the Anderson Cooper's daytime TV show about possibly appearing on his show to talk about Jessica's Law/ Megan's Law and how it continues to punish people long after they finished their prison time/parole. I of course said yes and am waiting to hear back from her. Do I care that my name and face may appear on national TV? No I don't! Won't this effect my life? What life? I live my "life" under Jessica's/ Megan's Law. I don't have a life. I only exist now. Also, I've already been on TV anyway in what was called a "Child Predator Raid" with me handcuffed outside my hotel and MY face for millions to see. Check this insanity out. 
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sex_Predator_Bust_in_Santa_Clara_Bay_Area-120438359.html 
The show is to be live the first week of December. Let all the others in this fight know. Jessica's Law and Megan's Law must be exposed !!! The past year I've been living in a fleabag hotel because it's the only place I can find to live because of residential restrictions ( 75% + of this county is off limits to RSO's) and have recently been told that I am to be evicted because the city is building a park down the street. I will be forced to live on the street like a bum due to Jessica's Law. I remember back when I was awaiting trial in the late 1980's I refused Protective Custody and on the Mainline another inmate called me a "Rape-O" so I hit him. After a bloody fight, I was later beaten by guards, stripped naked, and put in The Hole for months until my trial. It was then, sitting in a jail cell beaten and naked I decided that no matter what happens to me I would never give up. NEVER !!!

CA Per-Prisoner Costs Doubled in 10 years

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

California Per-prisoner cost doubled in 10 years

The Orange County Register reports:

The average cost to incarcerate a prisoner in California has more than doubled over the past 10 years, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

“The primary reasons are significant increases in employee compensation as well as federal court orders and settlements that have required specific program improvements (such as inmate medical care),” the LAO said.

In 2010, the average cost to incarcerate an inmate in state prison was $46,700. About three–quarters of that was spent on security and inmate health care.

High Tech Companies Making Big Bucks Off RSO's

From: Mother Jones http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/jessicas-law-surveillance-corporations 

To Cash In on a Predator

State laws that keep a close eye on sex offenders are supposed to protect kids. Are they also meant to enrich high-tech tracking companies?

—By Kate Sheppard

| November/December 2011 Issue

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In February 2005, nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was kidnapped, raped, and buried alive by a twice-convicted sex offender who lived a few hundred feet from her home in Homosassa, Florida. The crime horrified Floridians, and a little more than two months later, then-Gov. Jeb Bush signed the Jessica Lunsford Act, which mandated a minimum sentence of 25 years for first-time sex offenders who target children under 12 and life sentences for recidivists. It also required some released sex offenders to wear GPS tracking devices for the rest of their lives.
Almost immediately, there were calls for similar legislation across the country. Lunsford's father, Mark, joined the campaign, appearing on Oprah and Larry King Live and winning support from high-profile figures such as Bill O'Reilly, who declared, "This is literally a life-and-death battle to save our youngest and most vulnerable citizens from abuse, torture, and murder." In addition to Florida, 44 other states have since passed what's become known as Jessica's Law (PDF). The laws vary slightly state by state, but all mandate stiff sentences; 39 permit electronic monitoring for released offenders (of those, 24 authorize GPS monitoring). "Instead of them stalking our children, let's stalk them," Lunsford said at a 2006 event promoting the law in California.The push to implement Jessica's Law in all 50 states has been spearheaded by Stop Child Predators, a nonprofit formed in 2005. The group's determination to crack down on criminals who prey on kids is unquestionable. But there is another group with an interest in its work: GPS and tracking companies, which stand to gain as SCP's model legislation spreads. There are an estimated 736,000 registered offenders out there (PDF); satellite tracking equipment costs anywhere from $15 to $20 per person per day (an expense often paid by parolees). One of SCP's official corporate partners is Omnilink Systems, a major vendor of "offender monitoring" devices. SCP president Stacie Rumenap is a member of Omnilink's advisory board. A company brochure quotes her as saying SCP is "proud to support the use of" Omnilink's technology. The company has not said how many states it has sex offender monitoring contracts with.

In 2009, Lunsford, who serves as the chairman of SCP's advisory board, took a $100,000-a-year consulting job with Technology Investors, a Florida firm that creates databases to keep track of sex offenders. He told the St. Petersburg Times that the company's founder, data-mining maven Hank Asher, suggested that he shut down his own nonprofit, the Jessica Marie Lunsford Foundation, so he could "focus on legislation."
There is a universal "desire to keep kids safe," Rumenap notes. She downplays the idea that SCP's work is intended to benefit its corporate supporters. "This is an easy issue for companies to get behind," she says. "Who wants to argue against it?" A petite and charismatic blonde who has served as the deputy director of the American Conservative Union and director of the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rumenap is also the director of corporate relations at the Mercatus Center, a think tank funded by conservative billionaire Charles Koch.
SCP also has close ties the American Legislative Exchange Council, a low-profile yet influential clearinghouse of pro-business state legislation. SCP is an ALEC member, and ALEC adopted its template for a sex offender bill in 2006. Rumenap says that the "access to" legislators that ALEC provides has been "extremely" helpful in getting Jessica's Law into wider circulation. Since April, she has been the co-chair of ALEC's Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which oversees criminal legislation, including a bill that would require parolees and defendants out on bail to submit to GPS monitoring. It would also require ex-cons to "pursue specified education courses," a potential windfall for student loan companies and for-profit colleges.
Those companies, as it turns out, are also well represented in Rumenap's organization: SCP was founded by three executives from the College Loan Corporation, another of its corporate partners. Its board includes the CLC's chief marketing officer and a top lobbyist for the Apollo Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix.
"I don't doubt that Stop Child Predators is genuinely interested in stopping child predators," says Lisa Graves, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which recently published a cache of more than 800 pieces (PDF) of cookie-cutter legislation promoted by ALEC. No matter how laudable a bill may be, she says, the public has a right to know whether it will financially benefit a particular company. "If people knew that there was a profit motive behind it, they might have greater skepticism about whether this is the best solution or not."

Kate Sheppard covers energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones' Washington bureau. For more of her stories, click here. She Tweets here. Get Kate Sheppard's RSS feed.

Habeas Corpus Forms for CA's RSOs Residential Restrictions

http://www.prisonlaw.com/pdfs/ModelHabeasFull,Dec10.pdf

Above is a link to The Prison Law Office's forms to file a Habeas Corpus Petition asking local CA courts to stay CA's RSOs on Parole law that makes most RSO's here homeless. It has worked in some counties. Not in mine however. I filed this same Petition back while I was still in prison in Oct. of 2010. A judge ruled against it. I've been living in one of the few places I can find in this county where 75%+ of the land mass is off limits to me - a Fleabag Hotel. Now the city plans to build a park down the street and I have been ordered to move by the beginning of the year and start living on the streets or be sent back to prison. Great choice. Live on the streets like a bum or be sent to hell (CA's prison system). If you're in the same boat here in CA like me, I strongly suggest you file the above with your local courts and get the ban on residential restrictions lifted. The forms are all self explanatory. Good Luck !!!

The Sex Offender Down the Street (Is My Son)

From: Free Range Kids  http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/the-sex-offender-down-the-street-is-my-son/

The Sex Offender Down the Street (Is My Son)

Posted on September 30, 2011 by lskenazy

Hi Readers — This is a candid letter from the mom of a sex offender who is on the registry for life. Read it and see if our sex offender laws are doing the job they were intended to do: keep our kids safe from predators. — Lenore
Dear Free-Range Kids: My son was recently subjected to a death threat when a neighbor discovered that he was listed on the sex offender registry. What heinous crime had my son committed that our neighbor deemed worthy of death? “Falling in love.”
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He was 17, she told him she was 16. At the time he had no reason to doubt her. A short time later he learned a harsh life lesson. They never got beyond kissing or hand holding, but she wrote in her diary that they had made love. When her mother read the entry in her 14-year-old daughter’s diary she quite justifiably became angry. Without talking with either one of them, she called the police and had my son arrested. He spent 45 days in jail awaiting trial.
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Had the mother taken her daughter to the doctor, she would have found out that her daughter was simply voicing a private fantasy. The girl begged her mother to stop the proceedings, but the wheels of “justice” were already in motion.
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The girl was so distraught about the situation that she constantly sought to contact my son to apologize and beg him not to hate her. She finally convinced her older sister to help her get in touch with him. One day shortly after sentencing and being put on a strict 3-year probation mandating no contact with his “victim,” my son was walking home from the store a block from our house. A car pulled up behind him and he heard a familiar voice beg, “Please stop and talk to me for a minute, we won’t tell anyone, please!”

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His only reaction was to break into a full run. He burst through the front door of our home and collapsed into a pale, quivering heap of fear in the middle of the floor.  He managed to shakily mumble enough for me to realize what had just happened.  I immediately took him to the police station and had them document exactly what had happened. Only with their assurance that he had done the right thing and that everything would be OK, could he finally calm down enough to breathe.

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My son was quite shy around girls to begin with and she was his first love. As things stand right now, he may very well never have another. He never finished high school due to his probation rules, and will be required to register twice a year for the rest of his life. He has lost every job he has been able to find, due to his listing on the registry.  He can never join the military, or even follow his lifelong dream of a career in music, even though he is a talented singer/songwriter and drummer.

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Why not? The laws work this way: His sentence was 3 years’ probation and 25 years on the registry in his state of conviction, Michigan. He couldn’t keep a job in Michigan, he kept losing them because of the registry, resulting in homelessness. Homelessness and joblessness are parole violations, so he was sent to jail for six months. After two more trips to jail for failure to register — resulting in three more months in jail —  he came here to South Carolina to live with us.  As long as he can keep a roof over his head and registers when required, he will be safe. A third failure to register could send him  to prison for a mandatory 5 year sentence. Unfortunately, in our state, sex offender registration is lifetime for everyone.

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He cannot pursue his musical career because it costs money (which neither he nor we have), for his instruments and upkeep, advertising, etc. Plus, if you are on the registry you have to  go in and report everywhere you are employed. Which means if he had a gig in, say, Seattle, he would have to report the address of his performance, the length of time he will be there, where he would be staying for the duration, etc. This is required for each and every change, notwithstanding the fact that anytime he leaves his home address for more than 3 days, it has to be approved with both the sheriff’s department here and the sheriff’s department at his destination, and either of them are at liberty to deny his request at any time.

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I also wanted to mention, that although he does not have a driver’s license, he is required to register OUR car on his registry listing, which makes public, the make, model, color and plates of our car. This may seem trivial to some, but to a vigilante our car becomes a target, regardless of who is driving it.

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The whole thing makes for a very complicated and many times hopeless existence. — Lila Folster

Sexual (and Political Exploitation) of Children

From: The Libertian Standard http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2011/11/16/on-the-sexual-and-political-exploitation-of-children/

On the sexual (and political) exploitation of children

by Brian Martinez on November 16, 2011 @ 1:39 am · 0 comments

in Police Statism, Private Crime

Of all the child sex abuse allegations levied against retired Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, none perhaps is more disturbing than the report that he used his non-profit foundation Second Mile to gain access to young boys — not only for himself, but for donors to his organization.  Sexually assaulting children is by itself a monstrous act to contemplate; the idea that they may be pimped out to others is nearly unfathomable.
Yet to hear the mainstream media report it might lead one to believe that the problem of child sexual slavery is reaching horrifying levels in the U. S., and while it’s certainly not something to be ignored, it’s also not the “epidemic” the alarmists — and especially law enforcement — have portrayed it as.
One example of this media-fueled hysteria is a report released in September 2010 by the Women’s Funding Network, which earned them a national spotlight, not to mention an invitation from a House subcommittee, before which WFN chief program officer Deborah Richardson breathlessly warned that child prostitution was “exploding” in the U. S. — anywhere from 20 percent in New York to 65 percent in Minnesota.  Lock up your daughters!
The study focused in particular on classified ad sites such as Backpage.com and Craigslist, whose adult sections, it claimed, were enabling the rapid expansion of the child sex trade.  Craigslist succumbed to pressure brought by numerous U. S. Attorneys and closed its adult section, but The Village Voice, whose parent company owns Backpage, decided to do its own review of the study, and found it was based on looking at the pictures of girls in sex ads on the Internet — and making assumptions that a certain percentage of those ads must be for underage sex workers.  There was nothing remotely scientific about the data acquisition or methodology; the research group almost literally made up most of the data.
Despite its questionable methods and conclusions, the study’s findings blew across the media landscape like a summer wildfire.  Its numbers were reported without any critical analysis in papers such as USA Today and the Detroit Free Press, and cited by actress (and sex trafficking activist) Demi Moore, whose Web site still links to the WFN study.
None of this means that the child sex trade doesn’t exist, or that there aren’t a lot more Jerry Sanduskys lurking out there.  But it does mean that publicizing bogus studies without any critical context can lead to bad policy decisions by lawmakers and law enforcement agencies.  And we end up with Megan’s Law and Jessica’s Law and the Adam Walsh Act and other ill-conceived laws, all named after dead kids to make them seem critical to civilization’s continued existence, and not the further expansion of state power that they really are.
The air had barely escaped an Orlando courtroom following the Casey Anthony trial, in which she was found not guilty of murdering her two-year-old daughter, before an activist began pushing for a “Caylee’s Law”, which would have made it a felony for parents not to report a missing child within 24 hours.  It is precisely during these times of high emotion, when sensationalized cases of crimes against children make headlines and inflame radio personalities, that such laws should not be considered.  For they often serve only to increase the power of the police state without doing much to protect their intended beneficiaries.  Politically popular and emotionally resonant they may be, but dead kids make for bad laws.
Raising awareness of social ills is important, but so is truth and justice, and the media serve neither when they engage in reporting that looks less like responsible journalism and more like alarmist propaganda for an ever-encroaching state.

$142.42 a Day to Stay in CA Jails?

Riverside, California To Charge Prisoners $142 Per Day Of Their Stay

Jillian Berman
Huff Post
November 11, 2011
In one southern California county, prisoners will soon have to pay for the privilege of staying in jail.
Riverside County, California will start charging prisoners $142.42 per day of their prison stay, CNN Money reports. The county’s board of supervisors approved the measure on Tuesday as a way to save an estimated $3 to $5 million per year. Not every prisoner will be forced to pay up, however. The county will review each prisoner’s case individually to determine if they can afford the fee.
The fee comes as the California correctional system continues to struggle with budget woes. Last month, in an effort to save money, the state transferred responsibility for lower-level drug offenders, thieves and other convicts to counties. The “prison realignment” is one of many measures the state has taken in recent years to close its budget gap. The California Supreme Court is considering this week whether the state broke the law when it used re-development funds to close a shortfall a few years ago, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read full report here

LA County Jail Out of Room

November 12, 2011

CA: "L.A. County jails may be out of room next month"

L.A. County jails may be out of room next month
The state law that shifts prisoners to local authorities means the Sheriff's Department may release thousands of inmates awaiting trial. A new way of identifying the least risky ones is in the works, Baca says.
By Andrew Blankstein and Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
November 11, 2011
Los Angeles County's jails could run out of space as early as next month because of an influx of state prisoners, prompting officials to consider releasing potentially thousands of inmates awaiting trial.
The state's new prison law, which establishes a practice known as realignment, is expected to send as many as 8,000 offenders who would normally go to state prisons into the L.A. County Jail system in the next year.
Currently, defendants awaiting trial account for 70% of the jail population, but Sheriff Lee Baca said that might need to drop to 50%. The department is studying a major expansion of its electronic monitoring and home detention programs to keep track of inmates who are released.

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Life Sucks! We Got to Deal With It

   Well, here I be at the library again. Got to work on this blog here since I don't have a computer at home. A home I Will be soon evicted from because of Jessica's Law in California. I will be joining thousands of RSO's on parole in CA that are forced to live on the streets due to residential restrictions. It's pure insanity! I've been running, living underground, and being sent to prison for over 20 years now. I'm tired. I'm 50 now and the rabbit has been run out of me. Breaking out of prison and jumping parole a dozen times I learn that it is possible to live totally off the grid, but it sure is stressful being a fugitive. I've also refused to register in the past. The last time was when Jessica's Law was passed by CA voters in 2006. I wasn't captured until 2008 and was sentenced to 4 more years in prison. Going to spend the day looking for a new hotel room to hold up in until I parole in 2013 and if I can't find anywhere to live, I'll be living in my van. Now that's going to be a nightmare. Making plans to live in my van already because in this county 75+ of the land mass is off limits to RSO's and I don't think any of the hotels here are left that we can live in. A couple weeks ago I was informed that all RSO's will be evicted at 4 hotels in my area because the city is building a park down the street. 10 years ago, I would have never even reported to the parole office or allow them to lock a GPS Tracking Shackle onto my ankle and I sure would not be registering. I'm old now and have been fighting The Sex Crime Witch Hunt for since 1985. I'm pooped. It's all so crazy. Get this, the thousands of RSO's on parole here and who were forced into homelessness are not allowed in any one spot for more than 2 hours because it maybe within 2,000 feet from a park, school, ect.... If a RSO in CA does stay in any one place for more than 2 hours they are sent back to prison. 2 hours in any one place is a crime in CA? It is now and has been since 2006. Homeless RSO's have to always be on the move and are constantly harassed, degraded, and humiliated by local police. The only place homeless RSO's are allowed to stay more than 2 hours at, is the bush they are sleeping under at night. I've heard that being homeless and having to change your location every 2 hours drives a guy crazy and most wind up back in prison. I've spent almost 17 years in prison and can deal with anything Here's some articles on my wrongful conviction:

  * The Jessica's Law Nightmare in California - His daily blog
      http://jessicaslawnightmare.blogspot.com/


   *  Californians Against Jessica's Law
       http://nojessicaslaw.org/


   *  His life on the run
      http://runjamesrun2007.homestead.com/


   *  His 1995 extensive book on his wrongful conviction
      http://fathersmanifesto.net/falling.htm


   *  How to survive in prison as an innocent man
      http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume9/j9_3_6.htm


   *  Book review
      http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/4-apr96/book04.html


   *  Letter to parole board (1997)
       http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1997/7-dec97/safar07.html


   * Falling on The Deaf Ear
      http://oldcordovanpress.homestead.com/index.html


   *  Excluded Evidence by Cathy Young
      http://reason.com/archives/2002/02/01/excluded-evidence


   *  Mad Dog Rapist in Prison
       http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/4-apr96/safar04.html


   *  Victim of the Feminist State
       http://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/7-jul96/safar07.html

Life Sucks! We Got to Deal with It. Why? Because WE Have NO Fucking chioce !

Imaginary Crimes

http://members.shaw.ca/imaginarycrimes/ Imagine if you were suddenly arrested and accused of being a child molester..... Imagine if little children, coached by therapists, got on the witness stand and said that you had done horrible things to them..... Imagine if nobody believed you when you cried out that you were innocent.... Imagine if you were separated from your family and sent to prison for life.... Some people don't have to imagine. It really happened to them. This website is dedicated to helping people who are still serving long prison sentences received during the "ritual abuse" panic of the late eighties and early nineties. During this time, scores of innocent people were accused by overzealous social workers and police of heinous crimes against children. In time, the hysteria subsided and most people were freed from prison (although many had spent years in prison and had been bankrupted by the process).  It was discovered that the young children had been virtually brainwashed by the leading questions and repeated interrogations of social workers, therapists and law enforcement officials.  Therefore, their wild testimony about animal sacrifice, devil worship, travelling in submarines, secret tunnels, and flying to secret locations where they were molested were fabrications, mostly without a shred of truth. But incredibly, some people still remain in prison, forgotten and powerless. "I didn't like to think about what that could do to the soul of a human being, to have to sit in a prison cell day after day for a crime you had not committed. And nothing to look forward to at the end of a day but the knowledge of hundreds more days like the one you just endured." -- Elizabeth Loftus, Psychologist

Yes, child abuse is real.  Yes, child abuse is horrible.   Yes, those who abuse children deserve to be brought to account. But no one should be sent to prison, for crimes without evidence.
Links
More information about the Ritual Abuse Panic The Religious Tolerance website has an excellent  overview of the ritual abuse trials, as well as details of individual cases. Possibly the first website to speak out against the ritual abuse trials, the Witchhunt Information Page. Another good source of information: the Satanic News Watch and Media Exchange This important document by (now retired) FBI Agent Kenneth Lanning explains that the FBI examined thousands of reported cases of ritual abuse and found no evidence that satanic sex rings were infiltrating America's daycares -- or anywhere else. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation seeks to educate the public about the dangers of so-called recovered memory in therapy.  Investigative journalist Debbie Nathan's website. March 2009 series by the Austin Chronicle Also see the Other Cases page See also Repressed Memory -- a psychiatric fad that hurt thousands of people. The Ritual Abuse Panic: A Timeline Wrongfully Convicted Looking for ways to help a wrongfully convicted loved one? Try Justice Denied Magazine Truth in Justice Innocence Projects Anti-Quackery Ritual abuse is debunked at this website, dedicated to exposing bad practises in therapy. Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health

Books, Movies & Videos about Ritual Abuse, Wrongful Accusations of Abuse and the Recovered Memory Controversy No CruelerTyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times by Dorothy Rabinowitz Satan's Silence by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker The Ritual Abuse Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography by Mary DeYoung. Ph.D. Satanic Panic: the Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffery S. Victor Making Monsters by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters Has a Child Been Molested? by Dr. Lee Coleman and Patrick Clancy Victims of Memory by Mark Pendegrast Spectral Evidence: The Ramona Case by Moira Johnston Creating Hysteria by Joan Acocella Jeopardy in the Courtroom Drs. Stephen Ceci and Maggie Bruck Mean Justice Edward Humes Movie: Witch hunt (2008) Produced by Sean Penn About the Bakersfield, CA cases   Movie: "Capturing the Friedmans" Winner, First Prize, Best Documentary 2003 Sundance Film Festival Movie: "Indictment: the McMartin Trial" a 1995 HBO movie starring James Woods available on VHS Movie: "Just Ask My Children" a 2001 TV movie about the ordeal of the Kniffen family of Kern County California available on DVD Video: "20th Century with Mike Wallace: Child Sex Scandal: Modern Day Witch-Hunts" available through The History Channel