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.
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.
Women are always treated differently! What about equal Protection of law??? She should be in prison!!!
everyday someones sentenced to probation for actually having sex but you forget to register you get a year and a day 30 years later on dozens of retroactive laws that “aren’t punishment” to keep society safe but what you forgot or didn’t know you had todo isn’t causing any danger to anyone and was technical with no criminal intent.
So glad to finally see a vindictive woman trying to set her husband up like this get busted! Good! My best friends brother got screwed like this on a false accusation. She’s still free out there and hes labeled a predator now in Florida and you all know what that means.
Why didn’t he take an FBI polygraph test? OH that is right, if you fail it, they use it against you but if you pass it like I did, they say a polygraph cannot be used as evidence.
Jack,
LE has already decided that a suspect has “failed” a polygraph when they ask or suggest a suspect submit to one. Make no mistake, when they make such a request or suggestion, it’s because they have no evidence in whatever they are investigating and need to coerce some.
That’s all polygraph examinations are – interrogations. If there was anything substantial to the so-called science behind it, pre-interviewing wouldn’t be necessary, it wouldn’t be limited to yes-or-no questions, said questions wouldn’t have to be repeated multiple times, and the results wouldn’t be the mere opinion of the examiner.
It’s a shame that our society has evolved to such a point that all one has to do is accuse someone of an offense, especially a sex offense, and that someone is automatically guilty. It’s good to see that justice was served in this case but unfortunately that is not always the case. It’s time that men and women of honorable intent join together to fight this social tyranny that has infected our nation. These false accusations are destroying lives and families, all the while politicians are sitting back proud to be protecting society. We need to start asking and demanding answers from these politicians as to what they are basing their decisions on. From my four years in DC I have come to learn that politicians, if allowed, will ‘dance around a subject’ hoping it will go away so they cannot be held accountable for any miscarriage of justice. It’s happening right here in Brevard County Florida. You don’t play ‘wiffelball’ with politicians.
As hateful and stupid as this was, does having her on the registry keep anyone safer? $2000 in fines is minimal in my opinion and there is no mention of mental health counseling which she sorely needs.
nah part of the punishment
why probation and not prison? i know it was a female that downloaded child porn
Karma is a bit¢h!
Welcome to our world, Mon Chérie!
Man you stole my thunder, I was going to type that but glad I looked before hand, I hate being a copy cat LOL
Well done on the comment, I agree, what goes around comes around, just sometimes takes a while.