Defendant took a Plea Deal.

I am disappointed in the judicial system. The Defendant should of been charged with Lewd and Lascivious, the State Attorneys said without DNA or another Witness it would be hard to prove. So they said they had to drop it to a Misdemeanor Battery. With the Plea he only received 90 days, 75 with good behavior. He also has mandatory Alcohol/Drug/Mental Rehab. When he is released and they feel he hasn't completed Rehab, he will have to by court order continue treatment after his jail time. I know this person did not get a lot of time but the way I look at it,he didn't get away with it. He will have Battery on a child under 16 on his record, so even without it being a sexual record it still doesn't look good showing Battery on a child. Also, my daughter has closure, she didn't have to go to trial. I don't know what I would have done if I put my daughter through trial and we lost. It would have been devastating to her.

Pretrial

Well, he pled Not-Guilty! So he has a pre-trial on February 11, 2009. Hopefully then he will take a plea deal, if not then trial we go. I have so little faith in the system. I just can foresee him getting away with it. Like most of them do!

Court Date

Finally, the court date for the person who crawled through a window and tried raping my daughter has his court date on January 6, 2009. About time, the incident happened November 2007 ! Hopefully he pleads gulity or no contest, so he can be sentenced then. If he pleads guilty we go to trial and unfortunately that could delay another year or so.

Why so many offenders are not registered.

My daughter and I met with the State Attorney's office to proceed with the charges of Attempted Lewd and Lascivious but when we got there. The attorney said that the defendant daughters, who were molested 20 years ago, decided to recant their stories. The Attorney said that they would do more harm than good, to be put on the stand, that the only charge that they could do is Battery, so no registry! She said Battery would be because he touched my daughter with out her consent, since he didn't penetrate her, there was no solid evidence. It was her word against his. She also said that jurors now and days are corrupt from watching CSI and SVU. That jurors want to see DNA, Rape kits, Videos, etc... without this they find in favors of the defendant, instead of the victim. So if The perfert gets a misdemeanor battery charge he will serve max 1 yr jail time, probation, a combination, or he will walk away not guilty. So another perfert will be on the streets to rape/molest again with no paper trail of being an offender!

How can we protect our kids? or ourselves?

How can we protect our kids? or ourselves? I have asked myself this since I was a childhood victim. This is for all parents and children. I have been paranoid since my daughter was born in 1992. I have tried her whole life to make sure she would never be hurt like I was, but I failed! I was a victim at a very young age by a childhood friends father, he unfortunately got away with it due to technicalities, and I was one out of 5 that he tortured. I then at 14 , was raped by my brothers friend. There was no charges put against him.
However, I held in my pain and didn't care about myself anymore, until I had my daughter at 16. My eyes were wide opened, I think I have somewhat ruined her childhood. I would let her friends stay over here but she was not aloud to go inside or stay the night at anyone elses house. Besides with family. Big Mistake! I thought I didn't have to worry about family. Until my daughter's 15th birthday, last November. She was going shopping with my husband's mother, so they wanted her to stay the night, she did. We received a phone call the next morning that her husband climbed through the bedroom window and tried to have sex with my daughter. I am proud of my daughter at how quick she reacted to keep from being raped, but I couldn't protect her. I should of never let her stayed the night. Here I am not trusting her to be with anyone but family, but it was the family I couldn't trust.