Arkansas woman must register as sex offender after trying to frame husband for child porn
An Arkansas woman was given six years probation for trying to frame her husband by downloading child pornography on his cellphone and telling authorities he raped a 13-year-old girl.
Cherie Renee Bolton, 34, of Siloam Springs, pleaded guilty last week in Benton County Circuit Court to distributing, possessing or viewing child pornography and filing a false police report. Bolton must register as a sex offender and pay more than $2,000 in fines and court fees.
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We must remember that the real intent of the registry is not to make the community safe but to be punitive action above and beyond the judicial sentence. The only person this woman was a threat to was her husband and that has been resolved.
I passed a polygraph several years running before I was released early from probation. It’s money. When they can no longer justify giving a polygraph they just let it go.
While I agree this woman should be screwed to the wall, registration in her case makes no sense. Nothing in the article indicates she is the kind of threat the registry SUPPOSEDLY protects against. I just don’t see how one can oppose the registry’s existence, yet celebrate when certain individuals are put on it.
However, the situation does show the general disparities of prosecuting men and women accused of sex crime that the registry is indeed punitive, despite the states’ and courts’ repeated, tired claims to the contrary.
He must have had a really good lawyer, or she made some very obvious and prove able errors in her scam attempt. Otherwise no judge would ever rule against the mans word over a woman or kids. This is 1in a thousand case.