I know i have told the story to some that my son is bipolar and suffers dillusions and was just in the process of being diagnosed as schizophrenic.His fiance had enough this last time he went off his meds and took the 3 kids and left him.His father and i had him court committed but it only lasted 3 days and he had just checked himself into to a hospital when he called us and told us he was going to confess to having inappropriatley touched his then 9 year old step daughter once 4 years earlier and once 5 years earlier. He also told me he had called dss and they told him if something like this had happened they would get them all in counseling and try to save the family. He told me he was confessiong to this so him and his fiance would have to go to counseling and maybe get back together. I asked him not to talk to anyone till i got there but he did and it was all down hill from there. DSS told her mom and grandma word per word what he said. When she was 1st asked she said nothing ever happened but shortly after her story matched his word per word.
When he was arrested he told me a ladt from dss kept coming to the jail and trying to get him to sign a confession. I called and told the public defenders office(no lawyer asigned yet) and i called dss and told them he was mentally ill and they needed to stay away. He told me she came the next day and told him his only hope was to put it in writing and he did. He thought this whole time she was his lawyer. They also put him back on his meds in jail and by the time he met his lawyer he was no longer dillusional. But i never know at what point how much reality he comes back to. For 5 years he thought he was Jesus,
Any ways this is just a little history. I bailed him out.Everytime we went to see the public defender he would tell us after talking to the da it would be just 1 charge and 5 years max or he could go in front of jury and be 2 acts and up to 15 years each. He decided to take the plea and the day we went to court ecerything was just so fast and a blur. Piblic defender said no it had to be 2 counts and 10 years. He told Rob i am sure you wont get all of that. Went in front of the judge and his dad and i were with him and his fiance(ex) and all her family was there. Robert made a statement that he had come forward with the information and the judge said well i give you credit for that but i am sure it would have come out eventually and gave him 10 years. I was floored. The pd had told us on a plea you only had 9 days to contest it and it had to be because the judge said or did something wrong. I called the pd the next day and said please help me figure out a way to get this appealed and he said the judge didn't say much we have nothing to work with. A couple days later it hit me what the judge had said..I give you credit for coming forward..Well when a judge say that you would not think it would mean a pat on the back. For the next few days i left him voice mails every am and pm and told him to file the appeal based on that. One day his secretary said i dont know why he is not calling back i will leav a message on the board where he cant miss it...Like he could miss his voice mails????
The 9 days were up i was exhausted andi went into a depression where i almost could not get out of bed for the next few months. I know i could have made this story much shorter but i guess i needed to get it off me. I should have gone down there and seen someone i should have done something. I guess what i need to know from some of you who are more aware of the laws etc......Do you think there is anything i can do now 7 months later.
Any ideas please let me know and if not thanks for reading my book and just letting me vent.
Susan