Man seeks new trial for vigilante justice in Sterling Heights

And the state calls him a sex offender...????

3-20-2013 Michigan:

A former Sterling Heights man who illegally retaliated against teenagers who had broken into his home is seeking a new trial and new sentencing.

Vincent Bosca, 46, dressed in state prison clothes, appeared March 18 in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens for a hearing on multiple motions in his case.

Visiting Judge Robert Chrzanowski on March 18 accepted written arguments by Bosca's attorney and assistant Macomb prosecutor Chad Davis, and indicated he will issue a written opinion.

Chrzanowski also approved a deal between Bosca and Macomb prosecutors in which Bosca's version of the events will be included in his presentence investigation report the state Parole Board will consider when he is eligible for release, Bosca's attorney Geoffrey Walker said. The report already included police reports to help describe the incident, but those include victims' lies to police.

Bosca is serving a minimum of six years and nine months following convictions for holding four male teens in his basement, and beating and torturing them in June 2011. The victims had broken into his home and stolen money and marijuana, or knew who had done so four days earlier, and were induced to return.

Sex offender's lobbyist job leads to arrest

4-3-2013 Iowa:

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Michael Byars' effort to modify the state's sex offender laws was a case study for effective citizen activism at the Iowa Legislature -- right up until last week, when he was arrested and fired from his job. Byars, 24, of Davenport has been the driving force behind legislation allowing sex offenders to have their lifetime parole sentences lifted under certain circumstances.

But now Byars, himself a registered sex offender, faces up to two years in prison. The reason: He didn't update the state sex offender registry to reflect his voluntary, unpaid and, so far, largely successful attempt to convince lawmakers to change the law -- something his attorney calls a big misunderstanding.

It's a deeply personal issue to Byars, who was convicted in 2008 of lascivious acts with a child following what he describes as a short, consensual relationship with a 13-year-old high school freshman while he was an 18-year-old high school senior. The conviction landed him on the state's sex offender registry and saddled him with a lifetime parole sentence that requires him to check in regularly with a parole officer and stringently limits his interaction with children, including his own son.

The bill he's pushing would allow individuals in so-called Romeo-and-Juliet cases to seek an early discharge from lifetime parole sentences and has won what some Capitol insiders describe as a stunning series of legislative victories.

Teen Made Up Rape Report, Bath Police Say

5-7-2013 Ohio:

Girl will be charged for saying she was assaulted at Revere High School basketball game

A 15-year-old girl is being charged with making a false police report after claiming she was raped at a Revere High School basketball game in December.

The girl told police she was assaulted by a white male teen during a boys basketball game Dec. 7.

But Police Chief Michael McNeely said in a press release that "the allegation was determined to be false after a lengthy and thorough investigation by Bath police."

Evidence collected during the investigation disproved her report, and the girl later admitted the report was false, the news release said.

The charge against the girl, a first-degree misdemeanor, is pending in Summit County Juvenile Court.

Bath police credited cooperation by the Revere Local Schools administration with helping close the case. ..Source.. by Debbie Palmer

Chaneya Kelly Falsely Accused Father, Daryl Kelly, Of Rape, She Says

8-13-2013 New York:

A New York woman says that 16 years ago, her mother pressured her to lie and say her father raped her.

Chaneya Kelly was 9 years old when she says she told the lie that sent her father, Daryl Kelly, to prison. He's still incarcerated to this day. This week, she told NBC News she is doing all she can to get him freed.

“I'm 24 years old and I made this mistake when I was 9 years old,” she told the network, “but it's never too late to try and right your wrong. “

Chaneya Kelly was living with her parents in Newburgh, N.Y. in 1997, when she says her mother, Charade, repeatedly asked her if her father had touched her inappropriately. When the girl kept saying no, her mother allegedly said, "If you don't tell me the answer that I want to hear, I'm going to beat you."

Police: Teen fabricated rape claim

10-22-2013 Connecticut:

Woman could face charges of filing false police report.

Authorities could charge an 18-year-old Huron County woman with filing a false police report after investigators determined she made up a story that she was raped.

County authorities had been investigating the alleged rape of the 18-year-old female by an 18-year-old male within the last two weeks.

Huron County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Ted Patrick has said the two were living in the same foster home at one point. He added during initial interviews it wasn't "clear cut exactly what did take place."

On Saturday, Detective Bill Duncan and Sgt. Steve Shupp re-interviewed the alleged victim, who admitted she lied when she said she was raped. It turned out the sexual activity was consensual as the alleged suspect had said, Patrick said.

"Now it's a matter of whether she's going to get charged for fabricating that story," Patrick said. He added authorities will send information to the Norwalk Law Director's office for the consideration of charges.

Patrick commended Duncan and Shupp for uncovering the truth.

"They did a phenomenal job," he said, adding they used different interview techniques to before the female teenager admitted she fabricated the story about a rape.

"Her story wasn't adding up," Patrick said. ..Source.. by Aaron Krause

Appling woman charged with making false rape claim

11-14-2013 Georgia:

An Appling woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with falsely accusing two men of sexually assaulting her, authorities said.

Mindy Rickerson Readdy, 32, was charged with making a false report of a crime and making false statements.

On Oct. 31, Readdy called authorities about 2 a.m., claiming her 19-year-old boyfriend put a knife to her throat and raped her in their bedroom. She said her boyfriend, Cody Carson, told her he’d get away with raping her because he is her boyfriend.

Carson was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and spent two weeks in jail. He was cleared of the allegations and released Wednesday, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

In April, Readdy had told authorities that a friend physically forced her to perform oral sex on him while they watched a movie at her home. Her friend was never arrested.

Morris said both sex acts were consensual and that Readdy admitted she lied about them.

Readdy was being held Thursday in the Columbia County Detention Center on an $11,700 bond, according to jail records. ..Source.. by Valerie Rowell

Probation for Elgin teen made false rape report

9-26-2013 Illinois:

A teen who falsely claimed she was sexually assaulted in March near an Elgin townhouse complex where a murder had just occurred, was sentenced to 18 months probation and 100 hours of community service.

Katrina R. Sedlock, 18, of the 0-99 block of block of Garden Crescent Court in Elgin pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. She was initially charged with filing a false police report, a felony punishable by anywhere from probation to three years in prison.

Sedlock pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of attempted disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and also must pay a $915 fine, court records show.

Sedlock, who was a Larkin High School senior at the time, lived on the same block as Lisa Koziol-Ellis, who was murdered March 2 in her townhouse.

Elgin police said Sedlock told authorities she was walking a dog near Garden Crescent Drive and Wing Street on March 13 when a man asked her for a cigarette, punched her in the head and took her to a secluded area and raped her. The dog also ran away during the attack, police were told.

William Carl Welsh: Sex offender profile

10-1-2013 Oregon:

William Carl Welsh, a predatory sex offender with multiple convictions for abusing boys in Oregon and California, was required to register for life.

On April 3, 2009, he submitted the usual registration form to the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office. But that same day, he convinced his county mental health worker to help him get a passport.

Welsh had told his Clatsop Behavioral Care case manager that he had lost his ID and couldn’t get a new one from the state without a birth certificate or passport.

Three months later on July 15, he took a cab from his home in Warrenton to Portland International Airport. He bought an airline ticket and flew to Belize.

Welsh later admitted he took $10,000 with him and rented an apartment there. He said he planned to find work on a commercial fishing vessel and “start a new life.”

Welsh’s case reveals how some sex offenders don’t stop at state borders, but dodge their registration requirements by taking off to another country.

Federal agencies conduct checks of commercial airline passenger lists to determine if a passenger is on a terrorist watch, is wanted or has a warrant out for their arrest. But those checks rely on information in an FBI database and public sex offender registries that are incomplete and outdated, according to a study this year (Feb 2013) by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The U.S. Department of Justice has adopted guidelines requiring registered sex offenders to provide local police with 21 days’ advance notice of any international travel, but most states “have limited mechanisms in place to enforce the self-reporting requirement,” the study found.

The FBI is developing a better international tracking system to identify sex offenders leaving and returning to the country. It would send an automated notification to the U.S. Marshals Service where the offender last registered.

Oregon put out a warrant for Welsh. He remained in Belize until his arrest on Sept. 30, 2009. He was expelled from Belize and taken into custody once he returned to the United States.

During a jail interview with detectives from the Oregon State Police and Seaside Police Department, Welsh said he left the country because he believed that his Oregon parole officer was out to get him.

He also mistakenly believed that Belize had no extradition treaty with the United States. He told detectives, according to court records, “that he should have gone to Brazil instead.”

The government called Welsh not only a predatory sex offender — who preyed on adolescent boys by luring them with money, beer, cigarettes and porn magazines — but a “recidivist sex offender against minors.”

Just before Welsh left for Belize, he failed a polygraph exam when questioned whether he was continuing to expose himself to minors.

A federal judge sentenced Welsh in January 2011 for failure to register as a sex offender by leaving the country without permission and failing to let authorities know. Now 59, he got nearly two years in prison, followed by a life term of supervision. ..Source.. by Maxine Bernstein

Child molester (Registrant) in Macomb County stopped from leaving country

9-6-2013 Michigan:

A convicted Macomb County child molester was stopped last week at an airport in his attempt to fly to Europe in celebration of his 25th wedding anniversary because he failed to notify operators of the sex offender registry.

He was arrested Aug. 28 by Michigan State Police minutes before he and his wife were to board a Delta flight at Detroit Metropolitan Airport headed for Amsterdam, and ultimately to Prague. He was to return Sept. 9.

“He said they were going on a 25th wedding anniversary cruise that he paid $16,000 for,” said MSP Trooper Craig Tuer, state coordinator for the Michigan Sex Offender Registry. “He wasn’t happy. He was in disbelief.

“I don’t think those school children (he was accused of molesting) would’ve been happy” if he was allowed to break the rules and go on the trip.

He was formally charged Friday in 46th District Court in Southfield with failure to provide the registry of his plan to leave the country at least 21 days prior to departure and failure to provide a copy of his passport. The felonies are punishable by up to four years in prison.

His attorney, Kenneth Karam, said his client did not intend to skirt the law.

“If there was any violation, it certainly wasn’t willful,” Karam said. “This was a long-planned vacation. It wasn’t something he was trying to hide. Everything was in his own name.

“The Registry Law is complicated. I think he complied, but we’ll see.”

He said the incident “was disconcerting, to say the least,” to him and his wife, who are both retired.

Tuer said when an offender reports his intent to leave the United States, the MSP informs that country, which can choose to reject the person. He said some countries typically ignore the warning while others will turn away a convicted sex offender.

He pled no contest in 2005 to one count of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in a plea agreement with Macomb County prosecutors. He was sentenced by Macomb County Circuit Judge Mary Chrzanowski to five years probation, with the first year in the county jail. Fifteen additional charges of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and another five counts of attempted second-degree criminal sexual conduct were dismissed as part of the deal. The offenses carried a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.

Warren Consolidated Schools and officials were sued by 10 girls in 2006 and one additional girl later in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Each settled the case for an undisclosed sum that they will begin receiving at age 18.

William Seikaly, who represented the victims, said “the general consensus” among the girls and their parents was that he “got off easy in the criminal case.”

“Like the victims in cases of this type, they have been deeply affected and haunted by what occurred,” Seikaly said. “Many of them resented the fact that he never suffered any serious consequences for his behavior.”

The settlement was to pay for compensation and psychological treatment for the victims, Seikaly said at the 2007 settlement hearing, court documents say. ..Source.. by JAMESON COOK

Juvenile sex offenders say the crime doesn't fit the time

Important here is Lawmakers want it this way, they enacted the laws! They made it retroactive, BUT FAILED to include all those who have made these mistakes.

Lawmakers, Parents, Moms Dads, Uncles, Aunts and Others who have done the same in their youth, retroactivity -as enacted- PROTECTS them: Please stand up and be counted, err Registered. Its time for a MASS change!

10-16-2013 Missouri:

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- "My face is blacked out (In Video) because I am ashamed for everyone to know what I am," says Convicted Sex offender.

Missouri considers him a sex offender, after one decision he made 15 years ago with a 14 year old girl when he was living in Washington.

"One thing led to another and we ended up having consensual sex," he says.

That's considered to be a crime in Washington. He served time in juvenile hall for the crime, even though the sex was consensual.

"It wasn't rape, wasn't child molestation. It wasn't anything with a baby, it wasn't a violent crime and yet i am still paying."

He has tried to move on with his life, he even joined the army. But, his past still haunts him.

"Even with my military record and my degrees in school, I am still overlooked and passed. It sucks," he says.

"There's a whole coax of people who are accused, plead guilty that didn't have that mindset that don't have that same mental makeup as some of the people who are on the list," says Attorney Adam Wood.

Wood says the problem is with how the registry is run, separating the consensual crimes from those that were not. "The list is all encompassing list and it doesn't differential between those two types of people and that's a big issue," he says.

It's an issue that registrants' deal with every day of his life.

"If you're going to judge SOMEONE on something that happened 15 years ago for the person I am today, then shame on you. Shame on you," says registrant.

There was a push a few months ago for a bill that would allow people 18 and under to no longer appear on the registry. But, it did not get passed. ..Source.. by KSPR.com

Letter to the editor in the Billings Gazette

1-6-2013:

Letter to the editor found here: http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/mailbag/false-rape-claim-warrants-severe-punishment/article_a4dd9568-56b2-5d33-919c-76fccf12aea0.html

I'd like to comment on an article written by ____, concerning a false rape claim by ______ in The Gazette. First of all, I received this article via email from The Society Of The Wrongfully Accused.

I myself was a false rape victim back in September of 1995 while living in ___. I was accused by a woman I never even shook hands with. I was arrested, charged and thrown into jail without any consideration and had the embarrassment of having my name and charges splattered all over the Sacramento Bee.

The embarrassment and humiliation to my wife, my daughter and myself was immeasurable; it caused severe emotional trauma and in some ways permanent damage to my marriage. I hope and pray this woman receives the justice she deserves and that some day laws are passed making false rape claims a felony. They also should be treated as a sex crime. Even though no physical rape was committed, men who are almost always the victims in these cases, are raped by the justice system. If they are unfortunately convicted and sent to prison, they are often physically raped and sometimes murdered.

I once worked as a correctional officer for four years in a maximum security federal penitentiary and know that convicted rapists and child molesters are often targeted for violence by other inmates; any amount of time in prison for me would have ended my life. ... But the biggest crime of all, are committed by people who bare false witness against others.

[Name Omitted] ..Source..