Equal justice for all? Hardly! Ex deputy gets sweetheart deal.
A former Indian River County Deputy who was arrested after soliciting nude pictures from 16 and 17 years old is getting offered a sweetheart deal by the prosecutors.
He was originally charged with one count of possession of child pornography and two counts of lewd computer solicitation of a child. If convicted, he faced a minimum sentence of 33 months in prison and mandatory sex offender registration.
Under the proposed deal, he would plead guilty to three amended counts of Possession of Obscenity Harmful to Minors. The state is offering a sentencing cap of eight months in county jail, followed by three years of sex offender probation and NO REGISTRATION!
Here’s a guy who used his position of authority to force minors to send them nudes!
Thanks to Eugene V. Debs for pointing out this news to us!
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What do you think would happened if this was a judge’s son, or a leglislatures son? Florida is a two tiered justice system!
That’s exactly what I’m talking about. People with some authority get off doing nothing time at all. Here’s my case: I lived in south Daytona Fl back in ‘2006 on reed canal rd. I used yahoo cartoons and they had some age appropriate rooms also, like Romance cartoon where you had to be 18 or older to be in there. (This was before computers started coming out with cameras built in). I went and bought a web cam and attached it to my desktop computer and logged into the romance cartoon 18 or older click yes after reading their terms and conditions. Other people in there had cameras, but not these two detectives from Stuart Fl, Martin County so called pretending to be 14 in an adult cartoon. I started roleplaying with this so called 18 or older, you had to be. So we or I turned on my camera and started roleplaying. I got naked and masterbated on camera and never mentioned anything about going to meet anyone. So they came all the way from Stuart Fl,Martin County and broke into my noble home with out me being there and without a warrant. No warrant still to this day. I NEVER LEFT MY LIVING ROOM AND NEVER MENTIONED MEETING ANYONE. If you look me up, you’d think that I drove to Martin county to expose myself. Why would I do that, when I live in Daytona beach.? Their famous saying was “ WE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY DOWN HERE”. Even one of the attorneys down there said, she was sorry and didn’t agree with what they did to me, but she lived down there amongst them. She said as everybody has said that it’s so unconstitutionally wrong. I did 10 physical years in prison and I’m on the sex offender registry. And somebody like him him gets nothing. So, if you’d like to look me up text me please. Thank you Sam A.
Sorry. I do not know how to fix things like this without a massive focus by leaders on the injustices. We have no prosecutors or judges, no effective interest groups, legislatures or police chiefs that are willing to rain in overzealous zealots. To those and the public, persons charged in sex offenses are seen as unworthy citizens. This mystic creates stupid fears in the public and sells news by the media. There is no firestorm of outrage. The constitutional issues stand out, but also, ten years feeds the fact that America has the largest prison population in the world, more than China and Russia. What’s with that? Our solution for what used to be handled by community social services, schools, and parents, are now thrown to the justice system, who have the side effect of ruining lives.
And then the federal government pays local departments for after-hours work on sex stings. The registry is an abomination wrongly including minor crimes, and we classify most all sex offenses as felonies instead of many that should be misdemeanors or citations. FAC is one of the few effective groups, but it resides in one of the worst states for draconian measures, so what is up with that?
@Bo
Sadly, most of the World copies the U.S in many aspects and the registry is no exception. Many other countries now have sex offender registries, emulating our grand scheme of outing people on public forums, people who have already done their time and should be able to move on with their lives, instead are victims of hate, punishment, shame and even death.
Sam — My son was also involved in a “sting” – entrapment. He also was on an over 18 chat room – now in prison for 3 years, 5 years probation and the “sex offender registry”. To many stories of this injustice. I, and many others are working hard to make changes.
He, as you – became the victim of our corrupt system.
Wishing you well and know fights are being made to make changes.
Mama K
Surprise, surprise.
This guy is still technically, though not legally,a kid. He’s only 19 and honestly, the punishment in this case is justified. His attorney stated what anyone on the registry has either said, or thought at some time. No one should be on the registry for life. This case just shows that not all sex crimes are equal and should be judged on a case by case basis.
It would seem to me that we could angle this into a class action suit for violation of the 14th Amendments equal protection cause. That might just give the boost needed to help bring down the registry.
It sounds like this judge needs to be recalled to me. Any judge that goes easy on crime clearly must be recalled and removed from the bench. At least that’s what happens when it gets to be a high profile case and it’s not a law enforcement officer politician or someone in power.
Judge has not approved anything yet so any recall calls are premature