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My son has done his time in Missouri Prison. He pled guilty in 2003 and in 2005 he went to prison. In 2013 Parole Board said he could come home. Missouri Department of Mental Health said no and he was held for jury trial to determine if he is a Violent Sexual Predator. I did not understand this as I did not know Statutory Rape is considered a violent crime. His jury trial was held this week in Green County MO. The jury was never told no one has ever come out of the SORTS program alive. His attorney was not allowed to tell them. I was supposed to have been a witness to refute the statements of his old PO officer. I stayed in hall for two days until my turn to testify. Then they told me I was not going to be allowed to testify in front of jury! Only in front on judge. Jury was taken out to another room until after my testimony and I was never asked any questions except would we allow him to live with us! What was the point of the MO Prosecutor calling me and making me do a deposition last month? He was very rude and insulting and tried to get me rattled. I just kept my calm and told him there was no need to be rude but I would answer his questions anyway. Perhaps the fact he knew he could not rattle me in front of jury was why I was not allowed to testify? Any other crime besides a sex offense this would all have been considered double jeopardy. They tried him on exactly same thing he pled guilty to 12 years ago. My husband and I have listened to it through a bench trial and now through a jury trial. He has served his time and yet is still locked up with no out date... possibly for life? His father and I have been married for 50 years.this coming November and our son has a very good support system to come home to. This is so not right how could this happen in the United States? I am so very tired of trying to put a smile on my face and being nice when I just want to crawl back in bed and scream.
Injustice is exactly what this is. They punish, then punish, then punish again. Because THEY are the ones with a fetish to hurt people.
When my son went to sentencing in Floriduh the prosecutor lied and while he told the judge that my son said he masturbated to children (which he never said) he also bent his knees and put his fisted hand near his private parts and moved his hips back and forth. The judge didn't flinch. You can't fight this stuff.
They do whatever they want. And the public has no idea what goes on as they keep passing new restrictions and laws.
I know you won't give up.
i googled Missouri Sex Offender Civil Commitment Lawsuits and found this and others.
http://tinyurl.com/kkl4hga
maybe you have already done this, i don't know?
I am so very sorry to hear this, but sadly, I am not at all surprised as you and I have discussed before in our emails. Yes, state officials in Missouri royally suck!!!!!
My son plead guilty to on line CP here in New York State , was sentenced to 10 years, and is now facing similar charges in Montana. His lawyer hre told us that any staste where his name comes up in an investigation can charge him.
Remember that the Founding Fathers were traitors, rebels, and criminals. In many ways to their fellow country men in England they were feared much like the RSOs are in our country today. I want to share with you one of my favorite passages from the Declaration or Independence -
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are [Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.]--That to secure these rights, [Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,] –[That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.] Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. [[But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.]] …
I have bracketed the parts that are important to me and doubled bracketed the one phrase I think is pertinent to my rhetoric. For those of you who have not read it in a while – I include a link to a transcript of the words – right under this paragraph they list their grievances with the government of England. Many of those complainants can apply in some fashion to our country today.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Sending lots of hugs.
How old was your son at the time and how old was the victim??