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In reply to the discussion: Woman arrested for attempting to frame husband by putting child porn on his computer [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)he was innocent, and we proved it before he was charged. I knew the woman who accused him, and she was borderline sociopathic. It was a vengeance accusation. I recorded a conversation in the home of the woman's best friend, that could not be used as evidence in court, but the judge said he would listen to the recording in his chambers. When the judge came out of his chambers, he was red faced furious, and very severely admonished the woman. My friend (who is gay, btw), went to the sheriff's office and tried to press charges against the woman, but the deputies refused, saying that it would cause others to be afraid to come forward with similar allegations if charges were filed. My friend was so crushed, drained, and devastated by these events that he did not have the will to pursue it any further, he just wanted it over.
This whole episode lasted several months, and the poor guy could not believe what was happening to him. He did nothing wrong, and there was not a shred of evidence against him except the woman's testimony. This destroyed my friends life for a long time. He lost most of his "friends", and was afraid that everyone would still think he might be a sexual predator. He went bankrupt from paying legal fees to the lawyer who worked on the case, became depressed, began using cocaine to combat the depression, got busted for selling 3 grams of coke, and ended up doing 1 1/2 years in state prison.
After he got out of prison, he did his probation thing, and moved away, and never returned. He's doing ok now, we are still in contact a few times a year, but his life was permanently and considerably altered by this incident.
I still have the original recording, it's as damning as damning can be; it was definitely as set up, and there have been times when I've actually considered putting it on youtube, but I do not want to bring this ghost of nightmares past back on my friend.
I have played the recording for some of our mutual friends, the few who stood by my friend all the way. The women cried when they heard it, the men wanted blood.
True story, and with more details it becomes unbelievable, how horribly an innocent person be alleged to have committed a crime, yet have no evidence against them except the words of a sociopathic monster, and then have their life ruined in so many ways by the justice system, in a heartbeat.
And you know what he said to me after it was all over?
"No one ever even apologized."