The man who has to register as a sex offender based on lies
“I’ve been fighting this for 31 years of my life and it has caused me something new, every time I turn around,” Hansen said. “The neighbors looking at me wrong, not being able to go to a state park. Just recently I found my passports got pulled because of a new sex-trafficking law.”
According to the police report, Hansen said, “Do you want me to admit to something I didn’t do?”
Hansen said his public defender later told him the truth didn’t matter.
“She kept telling me, ‘Here’s the problem, you put three kids up on the stand and they start telling jurors that you molested them, I don’t care if it’s true or it’s not true, they’re going to convict you.”
Faced with 30 years in prison if convicted, Hansen took a plea deal that would keep him out of prison but forced him to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He’s been inside an invisible prison ever since.
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This guy must have had the same public defender I had, telling me that the charges for possession of Cp were based on legal adult porn being characterized as such, because on Discovery they were listed as “12-16 year old females” and that the burden of proof was on the defendant (me) to prove the opposite.
Truth is.. nobody cares. All you’ll get from the emotionally biased masses is: “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”
Well, the registry is the REAL prison sentence!!!
There is No second chance.
It’s ONE and DONE.
You are correct – we all know (as any logical rational person does) that the registry is useless and is nothing to protect children as claimed and that the facts clearly refute – that is a bold faced lie!
It is unconstitutional punishment. WHY – besides it does nothing to protect children because it actually diverts attention from the real potential danger to children which as we all know is NOT someone on a registry or even a stranger – NO – the REAL danger is someone the child knows (teacher – relative – trust family friend)!
That’s right – their precious registry actually makes it easier and more likely that a child will be abused!
“Lawmakers” such as Florida Senator Lauren Book know this perfectly and yet she does nothing to change the situation! Why – because she and her father have a cash cow that they milk for all it is worth!
Without a path off of this ineffective, illegal, and unconstitutional list it simply is life-time probation – PERIOD!
It also doesn’t help when Intent or Foreknowledge isn’t taken into consideration by the law
I too heard that being innocent really didn’t matter, along with exculpatory evidence being suppressed, witnesses for the defense not being called to testify, and a substitute investigator in place of the one who was the actual investigator.
Also, anyone who has ever taking a plea is aware that they must deny, (lie), that no promises or offer was made if they accept the plea. When the truth is that if they didn’t accept the plea they would be looking at a longer sentence.
How many more must suffer?