--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DC^00000Date: 08/30/96 From: NANCY EDDY Time: 09:18am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Good News??? Here's the latest on our case: (I know some of it's a rehash of what you may have veread on the conference, but here goes anyway.) Frank called his bail bond co. like he does everyweek, about two weeks ago, and was told he had another court date. This was strange, because until this time, the bail co. hadn't been notified of anything regarding this case. Frank called the lawyer, and was told yes, that the case was scheduled for docket call on Aug. 23rd, and that if it didn't go this time, the lawyer was ready to file a motion for a speedy trial, and a motion for dismissal. He said that if the judge denied both, then he would go to the Court of Appeals with motion to dismiss for lack of prosecution. The lawyer called on the 23rd, and told Frank the case was finally NUMBER ONE ON THE DOCKET!! The timing of this is really strange, since Stacy turned 18 on the 25th, and they now could supoena her without having to go through us. Frank was supposed to meet with the lawyer on the 31st, to discuss the case, but when he called to set up the appointment, the lawyer said he didn't think it was necessary, and that they could just meet half an hour before court was to convene on the 3rd. He called back not three hours later to tell Frank not to bother coming to court on Sept 3rd, that he had just gotten a call from the office of the NEW prosecutor (who just took over the case last Monday (28th) and whom our lawyer says WANTS to try the case) that the judge had granted a 30 to 60 day continuance due to the fact that the DA can't find the "victim" in this case---Stacy. The lawyer said that we should lay low, perhaps send Stacy to visit someone somewhere else if possible, but keep her away from these people. That if the DA can't find her, they will have no choice but to drop the charges and let Frank go. No "victim", no case. So now we're sweating it out, not sure what's going to happen. This makes probably the sixth prosecutor that's been on the case since it started-and the indictment is three years old in September. The thing is, we're worried that they may be trying to get to Stacy through the Social Security office. I received a letter to update Stacy's SSI file, which I had been expecting since it had been some time since it was last done, and she was turning 18. The Social Security rep. wrote on the form "Please bring Stacy with you." They've never asked this before, and I don't like the timing of it now, so I'm very sure I won't be taking her. The entire thing is getting crazier and crazier. We don't have a place that we can afford to send Stacy to, and I wouldn't like to send her somewhere alone without one of us with her. We could move (again), but that would mean another major undertaking. We received a copy of the letter that the DA's office sent to the Bail bond co, dated Aug 8, stating that Frank's case was already listed as Number One on the docket, yet the lawyer knew nothing about this, and had to wait until the docket call on the 23rd to find out. (Or so he says.) It just seems like we take two steps forward and one back, and that we are getting somewhere, but so slowly that it seems like we're crawling. I had a thought today that this might be the way that the District Attorney could keep from having to go to trial and lose the case. If they say they can't find the "victim" at the end of the continuance, then it won't be their fault and they'll be able to save face with the press, since the DA in that county once told the paper that he never dropped charges on anyone once they'd been filed. Any thoughts regarding all of this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nancy Eddy ---<--<@ ... Is that light a the end of the tunnel-or a freight train? ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 -*- SF-Quick/BW 1.00m Beta [UNREGISTERED] --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) * Origin: The Town Crier -- Paul Revere Network -- Athens,TX -- (903)677-2957 (1:19/106) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DC^00001Date: 08/29/96 From: VALERY FROSTY Time: 12:53pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: *** VERY, VERY IMPORTANT *** The following information is from the NASVO VOCAL COLORADO NEWS, dated August 1996. It is very, very important. LEGAL ACTION AGAINST SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCIES BEING TAKEN The Coalition of Parents, in concert with The American Family Network, the law firm of Faegre & Benson, the law firm of Nilken & Nilken, Philip Benson, attorney at law, the Bauman & Rasor Group, investigative agency, and Cook Inlet Associates, a public relations firm, is perparing civil fraud suits against several states, counties, and their social services agencies. These suits will be brought in federal courts, under provisions of the U.S. Code including USCS 32, section 3729 et.sec, USCS 18 et.al, and USCS 42, section 1983 et.sec. USCS 31 section 3732 provides for a cash reward made to persons who possess information that leads to the recovery of moneys taken by fraud, deceptive practice or reckless disregard for the truth, from the Federal Government. Anyone having information relating to fraudulent or deceptive practices done by social service agencies or their employees, or wishes to participate in the financing and recovery of, and from these litigations should immediately contact: Gregory M. Neligh; Cook Inlet Associates; 1-800-478-9410; afn@customcpu.com; http://www.customcpu:80/personal/mneigh.cop ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good Luck to any and all who participate. Valery Frosty ~~~ ReneWave v1.00.wb2 (unregistered) --- Mankind = One Family * Origin: Family Rights Advocacy Online (510) 439-0712 (1:161/19) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DD100000Date: 08/31/96 From: BOB HIRSCHFELD Time: 09:03am \/To: NANCY EDDY (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Good News??? This is the first message I've seen on VFALSAC in a while. How many others are reading VFALSAC? Please post a brief message. ---------------------------------- > Here's the latest on our case: (I know some of it's a rehash of what > you may have veread on the conference, but here goes anyway.) > Frank called his bail bond co. like he does everyweek, about two weeks > ago, > and was told he had another court date. This was strange, because until > this time, the bail co. hadn't been notified of anything regarding this > case. Frank called the lawyer, and was told yes, that the case was > scheduled for docket call on Aug. 23rd, and that if it didn't go this > time, the lawyer was ready to file a motion for a speedy trial, and a > motion for dismissal. He said that if the judge denied both, then he > would go to the Court of Appeals with motion to dismiss for lack of > prosecution. > The lawyer called on the 23rd, and told Frank the case was finally NUMBER > ONE ON THE DOCKET!! The timing of this is really strange, since Stacy > turned 18 on the 25th, and they now could supoena her without having to > go through us. Frank was supposed to meet with the lawyer on the 31st, > to discuss the case, but when he called to set up the appointment, the > lawyer said he didn't think it was necessary, and that they could just > meet half an hour before court was to convene on the 3rd. > He called back not three hours later to tell Frank not to bother coming > to > court on Sept 3rd, that he had just gotten a call from the office of the > NEW > prosecutor (who just took over the case last Monday (28th) and whom our > lawyer says WANTS to try the case) that the judge had granted a 30 to 60 > day continuance due to the fact that the DA can't find the "victim" in > this case---Stacy. The lawyer said that we should lay low, perhaps send > Stacy to visit someone somewhere else if possible, but keep her away from > these people. That if the DA can't find her, they will have no choice > but to drop the charges and let Frank go. No "victim", no case. > So now we're sweating it out, not sure what's going to happen. This > makes > probably the sixth prosecutor that's been on the case since it > started-and > the indictment is three years old in September. > The thing is, we're worried that they may be trying to get to Stacy > through > the Social Security office. I received a letter to update Stacy's SSI > file, which I had been expecting since it had been some time since it was > last done, and she was turning 18. The Social Security rep. wrote on the > form "Please bring Stacy with you." They've never asked this before, and > I don't like the timing of it now, so I'm very sure I won't be taking > her. The entire thing is getting crazier and crazier. We don't have a > place that we can afford to send Stacy to, and I wouldn't like to send > her somewhere alone without one of us with her. We could move (again), > but that would mean another major undertaking. > We received a copy of the letter that the DA's office sent to the Bail > bond co, dated Aug 8, stating that Frank's case was already listed as > Number One on the docket, yet the lawyer knew nothing about this, and > had to wait until the docket call on the 23rd to find out. (Or so he > says.) > It just seems like we take two steps forward and one back, and that we > are getting somewhere, but so slowly that it seems like we're crawling. > I had a thought today that this might be the way that the District > Attorney > could keep from having to go to trial and lose the case. If they say > they > can't find the "victim" at the end of the continuance, then it won't be > their fault and they'll be able to save face with the press, since the > DA in that county once told the paper that he never dropped charges on > anyone once they'd been filed. > Any thoughts regarding all of this would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Nancy Eddy > ---<--<@ > ... Is that light a the end of the tunnel-or a freight train? > ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 > -*- SF-Quick/BW 1.00m Beta [UNREGISTERED] > --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) > * Origin: The Town Crier -- Paul Revere Network -- Athens,TX -- --- DB 1.58/004910 * Origin: Bob Hirschfeld, Moderator, FidoNet VFALSAC Echo (1:114/74.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DD200000Date: 09/01/96 From: PEGGY MILLER Time: 11:41am \/To: RICK THOMA (Read 2 times) Subj: repost???? Any chance you could repost the article (the sex offender) you just did. I accidently erased parts 1- 4. Can you believe it?? Sorry, and Thanks! Peggy (Tiger Eyes) --- PPoint 1.86 * Origin: Peggy.Miller@p4.comnsens.fidonet.org (1:215/705.4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DD500000Date: 09/02/96 From: MODERATOR, ECHOLIST ECHO Time: 06:58am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Monthly ELDEL posting (6-month echo dele06:58:2909/02/96 ECHOLIST The Echomail Conference List EXPIRED ECHO DELETIONS 01 Sep 1996 ELDEL609.SUM TAG LAST UPDATED ============================================================================= VFALSAC 08 Feb 96 by Bob Hirschfeld, 1:114/74 57 entries deleted from ELIST609.TXT Bob, are you going to let this echo go down permanently? If so, let me know and I will pick up the moderator's post on it since I personally feel that this echo is far too important to let it go down. Bill Bauer --- DB 1.58/004358 * Origin: -=[MAGNA CARTA NEWS SERVICE]=-(405)631-1664 (1:147/113) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DDA00000Date: 09/04/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 09:29am \/To: PEGGY MILLER (Read 2 times) Subj: repost???? > Any chance you could repost the article (the sex offender) > you just did. I accidently erased parts 1- 4. . . What the heck. As slow as these echos have been the biggest problem they face is falling off the Fido backbone for lack of mail flow. :) --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DDA00001Date: 09/04/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 09:30am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: The Sex Offender Next Door (c) The New York Times Magazine, 7/28/96, p. 20. The Sex Offender Next Door -- Part 1 of 7. By Peter Davis; Peter Davis's most recent book is "If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass." NOTHING IN THIS STORY LOOKS LIKE WHAT IT IS. Trembling, but it appeared she was only shivering from the cold inside the cave, my sister emerged into the sunlight. Beginning to cry, though it seemed she was only blinking in the bright light, she asked me to please get her far away from the cave as fast as possible. I had no idea what she was talking about. What she was talking about, she stammered to my school friend and me as we grudgingly cut short our hike in the California hills above our home, was that a teen-ager in the cave she was just exploring had cornered her and forced her to stroke his penis. We saw him come out of the cave with a friend of his, both of them huge, smiling. My sister was 8, I was 9, my hiking buddy was 10. We ran. That was my introduction -- and far more critically, of course, my sister's -- to what is known as a sex crime. We couldn't understand why the teen-ager, who was quickly caught by a deputy sheriff, wasn't executed. My sister was that scared; I was that angry. Instead, the teen-ager, who was from somewhere else, was run out of town. I've always wondered what happened to him. My sister still speaks of the incident with awe, as if she had seen the face of pure evil in the cave, and she still has the pain in her voice that I first heard outside the cave. But as the years pass, she talks of her molestation with greater ease and, after years in therapy, with relief that she survived. The school bus stop on East Forest Avenue in suburban Englewood, N.J., a few miles north of the George Washington Bridge, appears to be as innocent, as reassuringly familiar and as devoid of ambiguity as the California mountains I hiked as a boy. Every morning, a few dozen children, kindergarteners through 12th graders, assemble here between 7 and 8:30 to wait for their buses. Yet here, too, complexity waits. Behind the bus stop is a well-tended middle-class home, also unexceptional, but the home is owned by a man convicted of five separate sex crimes. He moved to Englewood after being paroled from prison and now lives about 25 feet from the daily gathering spot of precisely that segment of the population that he has been forbidden by his parole officer ever to be near when he is alone. Heedless, the kids romp on his lawn, play tag, tease one another. Should they be told about the man in the house? Should their parents? How we feel about sex crimes and those who commit them is closely related to how we feel about sex itself. Many of us inadvertently learn about sex crimes before we learn about sex, as my sister and I did, binding fear and desire unnaturally. Sex crimes can fool victims, families and the police because they do not happen exclusively or even primarily among what is generally known as "the criminal element" but among, well, the rest of us. They play not only upon our worst fears but also upon our need for denial. Sex criminals can be found, or can hide, anywhere, especially in places where serenity seems to reign. Englewood is such a place, an easy American town with rich people living on the hill, the middle and working classes spread out below them and around the tidy downtown shopping area, where no building is taller than three stories. More diverse than most suburbs, Englewood has a population of about 25,000, roughly 46 percent of which is white and 40 percent black. "Every New Jersey element is found in Englewood," said Robert G. Torricelli, the local Congressman, a Democrat who lives in Englewood himself and is running for the Senate seat vacated by Bill Bradley. "Some of the population is struggling, and we also have some of the wealthiest families in the state." A customer in the fashionable Starbucks coffee shop told me that Englewood is "the last stronghold of 'Leave It to Beaver' America." He was wearing a Rangers cap over his wire-rim glasses. Upset about the laxity of the courts when it comes to punishing repeat criminals, he is not pleased that a released sex offender has chosen to settle in Englewood. "We as a society send the wrong message by letting him out of prison at all," he said. All of Englewood is now aware that the sex offender lives there. This awareness is a result of a group of statutes collectively known as Megan's Law, which was hastily passed in 1994 after a 7-year-old New Jersey girl named Megan Kanka was kidnapped, raped and murdered, allegedly by a twice-convicted sex offender. Essentially, Megan's Law is designed to protect the public from released sex offenders by insuring that local authorities know their whereabouts. The most controversial aspect of the law involves community notification in cases of what are known as high-risk sex offenders. It is left to individual county prosecutors to decide whether released offenders fall into the low-, moderate- or high-risk categories. The released sex offender in Englewood interrupted the notification process with a court challenge that has itself become a public and polarizing event. He is known by the fictitious initials E. B. while the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit contemplates the constitutionality of Megan's Law. E. B. refuses to speak about himself to anyone except, it seems, his wife, his therapist and his lawyer. To Englewood, he exists only in silhouette. --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DDA00002Date: 09/04/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 09:29am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: The Sex Offender:02 (c) The New York Times Magazine, 7/28/96, p. 20. The Sex Offender Next Door -- Part 2 of 7. E. B., ENGLEWOOD'S MYSTERIOUS SEX OFFENDER What is known about E. B. gives the silhouette discernible shape if not articulated feature. E. B. grew up in Virginia. In 1969, he raped and murdered two boys, one week apart. He had lured the boys into the woods near their homes. When each resisted E. B.'s sexual advances, he set upon his victims with a knife, slicing open the back of their pants. Each boy was anally raped, though there was no ejaculation. E. B. strangled the first boy, who was 14, and buried him in a shallow ditch. The boy was not yet dead, and E. B. stayed until the gasping for air stopped. The following week, E. B. took no chance on a lingering death and stabbed a 13-year-old boy 14 times after raping him. E. B. got away with both murders. The police suspected him, since he was seen with each boy on the nights of the crimes, but there wasn't enough evidence to arrest him. After attending the boys' funerals, E. B., who was 17, left Virginia. By 1973, he was living in New Jersey and had married. That year, he was arrested after sodomizing three more boys. For the three counts of sodomy, the 22-year-old E. B. received a 33-year prison sentence. He began to express remorse; he cooperated as an inmate and actively participated in his therapeutic sessions. While in counseling, he confessed to the earlier murders in Virginia. The Virginia prosecutors, for whom E. B. amounted to found money, accepted a sentence of only 20 years for the sex murders of the two teen-agers. A model inmate, E. B. was released from prison in New Jersey in 1979 and sent to Virginia to serve out his murder sentence. He continued to do everything the prison authorities asked and was granted parole in 1989, having served 16 years of his combined 53-year sentence. His wife, by all accounts a woman remarkable for both her fortitude and her forgiveness, stuck by him through the prison years and remains a key element in what some therapists term E. B.'s "recovery." After E.B.'s release, he and his wife moved back to New Jersey, at length settling in Englewood. They were able to obtain a mortgage and buy a house, and he has worked steadily as a furniture upholsterer and an occasional auto mechanic. E. B. and his wife, a nurse's aide, are devout churchgoers, are reclusive and have caused no trouble in their neighborhood, where they have lived since 1994. As it happens, the school bus stop is directly in front of their home. After Megan's Law was passed, E. B. was designated a high risk by the Bergen County prosecutor, and the local police prepared to notify his Englewood neighbors of his presence. E. B. objected to Megan's Law, arguing through his lawyer that it constitutes additional punishment on top of the prison terms he has already served. New Jersey's Supreme Court upheld the fairness of Megan's Law, whereupon E. B.'s lawyer took the case to Federal District Court and asked for a ruling on its constitutionality. In January, Judge Nicholas Politan declared the notification provisions of Megan's Law unconstitutional. Noting that Megan's Law was passed after E. B. had served his sentence, Politan ruled that the law itself is a form of punishment because of the effect it could have on a freed offender's ability to return to normal life. In Englewood, Megan's Law could subject E. B. to the loss of his job, and to humiliation and community ostracism. The judge's ruling, which the state of New Jersey immediately brought to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, where it now awaits a full hearing in the fall, caused an immediate social explosion. First, New York's Guardian Angels rushed to Englewood. Infuriated at Judge Politan for becoming, as they put it, "the pedophile's best friend," the Angels announced that they would find out who E. B. was and spread his name around themselves. Meanwhile, a resourceful and irate trucking-company salesman named Harold Turner, from next-door Hudson County, researched public records and quickly figured out E. B.'s identity. Turner contacted the Guardian Angels, whereupon Curtis Sliwa, the group's leader, printed up 30,000 fliers naming E. B. and listing his crimes. (The judicial ruling put a restraint on the police but not on private citizens.) The Angels passed out the fliers all over Englewood. Finally, Turner held a news conference on the steps of Englewood's City Hall, proclaimed E. B.'s real name and went on Sliwa's WABC radio program to describe his detective work and its results. If sex crimes are rooted in anger, as psychologists generally believe, so is the reaction to sex criminals. E. B.'s neighbors were furious not only at the court decision but also at the police, the newspapers and television broadcasters -- many of whom, they felt, had conspired to protect E. B. Squad cars patrolled E. B.'s street to discourage vigilantes. The news media, meanwhile, took both the high and low roads, playing up the lurid sex but usually refusing to name the offender. Like most of the local press, The Times has identified him only as E. B. --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124)