"The 10-year Cost Behind A Broken Underage System."
"The 10-year Cost Behind A Broken Underage System."
The Issue
STOP: The 10-year cost behind a vindictive and manipulative, broken underage system.
Dear Reader/viewer/signee,
As a mother, I have seen many hardships, but one I will never stop fighting for his true justice for young teens going into adulthood. To watch our youth step into a courtroom facing 10 years in prison because a guardian and/or child lied about their age breaks my heart.
Sexual assault is a serious crime. I hurt for the survivors all over the world. But today, I’m writing to you about another serious problem in relation to sexual assault: the youth who are falsely accused of this crime, making it hard for them to rely on the justice system because so many cry wolves exist. When these guardians and young teens set out to collect on their intentional wrongdoings, they are going after young teens stepping into adulthood. The boys/girls who fall to the guardians and/or children giving consent won't stand a chance in a courtroom, that is if they see a courtroom after months in jail or are able to pay bail.
What does this mean?
It means if there is no physical proof that the child/guardian(s), accuser(s), did not reveal the honest truth about their age/the age of their child, the accused is looking at 10 years in prison, a life sentence of being a registered sex offender, and felonies that will follow them for the rest of their life. In some cases, these costs are warranted, but in others, these costs come as a result of vindictive lies and a broken system.
What can we do?
Right now very little can be done. Many of these guardians continue to allow their underage teens to date older men/women, and the caretakers of these teenagers know that their own heinous crime of lies are still going without punishment. In fact, these guardians are still lying themselves, telling other parents their child is of age when in all honesty they are not. Because there is no proof of the guardians lying, their false statements will be accepted while the accused’s truths will be rejected in a courtroom.
My Son’s Story
How do I know all of this? Because I am living it, and my son is living it.
I was puzzled when my 17-year-old was arrested and charged with sexual assault by the hands of parents who knew that our children were together and my son’s age. The parent then informed me that her child was two years younger than my son, and so, she was having him arrested. The relationship had ended between my son and the girl, and having him arrested was retaliation, as she did not want the relationship to end. My son, who has a learning disability and Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a teenager, a young man trying to keep his head up even when people treat him badly. The accusers lied to their community of peers and parents. The parents purposefully neglected their parenting responsibilities, abused and endangered not just my child but their own child and the lives of all the other parties involved.
I personally asked a police officer in Marshall County, Iowa, “How can we protect our kids from this?” His reply was, “You just have to trust they are telling you the truth.”
My son now has two felonies, a lifetime on the sex offender registry, five years probation, and five years where he can't leave the state. My son is the victim in this case. The teens and their guardians are still at large. Meanwhile, my son has missed birthdays, holidays, his senior year of high school, hugs from his parents, and love from his family and friends. He suffered over and over because of neglectful parents, unlawful people with a badge, attorneys, and other government agencies who claimed they were there to help but weren't. My son visited the hospital three times while in jail. My son got help from his disability community district to keep his education going, from a gentle man who seeks out and helps people with violent crimes towards inmates, inmates who could clearly see he was wrongly accused, a few guards in jail helped him adjust to his new living situation, and one sheriff who would literally check on him from time to time requested by me, his mother to my son’s educational state of mind; I was there three days a week for 19 months. I wasn’t going anywhere and I wasn’t going to stop trying to fight for his innocence.
So, what can we do?
We can start by coming together to address the real situation and find a solution that is not only beneficial for the parents and kids being fooled, but also for the teenagers who need a loving environment with structure and guidance. These situations should be thoroughly investigated, not only by law enforcement but also by the Department of Human Services and counselors.
What is a proper punishment?
Guardians should be raising kids in a safe, well-structured, loving, and responsible manner, and inappropriate behavior should be held accountable. When caretakers are aware of their child lying about their age and do nothing but produce the same lie to their community, that is child neglect and furthermore abuse towards not just their own child but also the accused child and the guardian(s) of the convicted. The parents should be held accountable and should face the same punishment as the one they accused for allowing such wrongful actions to take place: lying; proceeding to hurt and manipulate their child, the accused, and others in the community; intending to continue such actions; and not fulfilling their parenting responsibilities. They are parents, they should know better. They endanger both kids in these situations, adding recklessness, as they are not only allowing their kids to lie to teenagers entering adulthood but also, they are lying to the community, addressing other parents and falsifying the age of their child. They have decided to take an action that has serious repercussions. Those proceedings should be held accountable in the courtroom. They should be convicted for their words being transformed into actions by their child and accepted by the accused’s parents. Guardians should know the difference between right and wrong. These parents abused our justice system, and they continue to cause the same emotional abuse over and over again by sending children to jail within weeks after they turn of age. They should be the ones behind bars, not our new adults still finishing high school. They have purposefully repeated the process over and over again. At some point, this has to be child trafficking. As such heinous crimes, when will both children - the accused and the accuser - be protected from the accuser’s guardians’ crimes?
With all things considered and after a deep understanding of the situation and clarification on social outlets, these parents are condoning and lying about their teenagers’ age. The teen then proceeds with the behavior in such discomforting disorder, following their parent’s example. Therefore, the influence of the parent and child relationship should be held in the court of law by removal of the child to live in a well-structured atmosphere, provided counseling of some kind, and required to do community service work so they not only understand their actions have consequences but also can find value in doing something more productive with their time.
Conclusion
Don't let my son’s situation become your child’s fate. I am asking everyone to digest the very idea that this inhuman type of character exists. It is unjust. I am asking you to think, if this was your child, nephew, cousin, best friend's son, grandchild, etc., would you sit on your hands and let this situation destroy your child’s future? It’s time to put an end to the injustice, and start fighting for our children going into adulthood by helping them to see how to trust, love, and grow in the environment around them. We cannot watch our system deprive them of their honesty, loyalty, and love because parents/teens couldn’t be these kinds of people in our society.
Please take a moment to sign this petition, show your support, for this is a pressing issue and our young boys and girls need to feel the value of life before it is taken from them. Help people who do wrong be held accountable for their actions. I am grateful for your time. Thank you!
-Christy
Tuesday, May, 11th 2022, 12:23pm
35
The Issue
STOP: The 10-year cost behind a vindictive and manipulative, broken underage system.
Dear Reader/viewer/signee,
As a mother, I have seen many hardships, but one I will never stop fighting for his true justice for young teens going into adulthood. To watch our youth step into a courtroom facing 10 years in prison because a guardian and/or child lied about their age breaks my heart.
Sexual assault is a serious crime. I hurt for the survivors all over the world. But today, I’m writing to you about another serious problem in relation to sexual assault: the youth who are falsely accused of this crime, making it hard for them to rely on the justice system because so many cry wolves exist. When these guardians and young teens set out to collect on their intentional wrongdoings, they are going after young teens stepping into adulthood. The boys/girls who fall to the guardians and/or children giving consent won't stand a chance in a courtroom, that is if they see a courtroom after months in jail or are able to pay bail.
What does this mean?
It means if there is no physical proof that the child/guardian(s), accuser(s), did not reveal the honest truth about their age/the age of their child, the accused is looking at 10 years in prison, a life sentence of being a registered sex offender, and felonies that will follow them for the rest of their life. In some cases, these costs are warranted, but in others, these costs come as a result of vindictive lies and a broken system.
What can we do?
Right now very little can be done. Many of these guardians continue to allow their underage teens to date older men/women, and the caretakers of these teenagers know that their own heinous crime of lies are still going without punishment. In fact, these guardians are still lying themselves, telling other parents their child is of age when in all honesty they are not. Because there is no proof of the guardians lying, their false statements will be accepted while the accused’s truths will be rejected in a courtroom.
My Son’s Story
How do I know all of this? Because I am living it, and my son is living it.
I was puzzled when my 17-year-old was arrested and charged with sexual assault by the hands of parents who knew that our children were together and my son’s age. The parent then informed me that her child was two years younger than my son, and so, she was having him arrested. The relationship had ended between my son and the girl, and having him arrested was retaliation, as she did not want the relationship to end. My son, who has a learning disability and Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a teenager, a young man trying to keep his head up even when people treat him badly. The accusers lied to their community of peers and parents. The parents purposefully neglected their parenting responsibilities, abused and endangered not just my child but their own child and the lives of all the other parties involved.
I personally asked a police officer in Marshall County, Iowa, “How can we protect our kids from this?” His reply was, “You just have to trust they are telling you the truth.”
My son now has two felonies, a lifetime on the sex offender registry, five years probation, and five years where he can't leave the state. My son is the victim in this case. The teens and their guardians are still at large. Meanwhile, my son has missed birthdays, holidays, his senior year of high school, hugs from his parents, and love from his family and friends. He suffered over and over because of neglectful parents, unlawful people with a badge, attorneys, and other government agencies who claimed they were there to help but weren't. My son visited the hospital three times while in jail. My son got help from his disability community district to keep his education going, from a gentle man who seeks out and helps people with violent crimes towards inmates, inmates who could clearly see he was wrongly accused, a few guards in jail helped him adjust to his new living situation, and one sheriff who would literally check on him from time to time requested by me, his mother to my son’s educational state of mind; I was there three days a week for 19 months. I wasn’t going anywhere and I wasn’t going to stop trying to fight for his innocence.
So, what can we do?
We can start by coming together to address the real situation and find a solution that is not only beneficial for the parents and kids being fooled, but also for the teenagers who need a loving environment with structure and guidance. These situations should be thoroughly investigated, not only by law enforcement but also by the Department of Human Services and counselors.
What is a proper punishment?
Guardians should be raising kids in a safe, well-structured, loving, and responsible manner, and inappropriate behavior should be held accountable. When caretakers are aware of their child lying about their age and do nothing but produce the same lie to their community, that is child neglect and furthermore abuse towards not just their own child but also the accused child and the guardian(s) of the convicted. The parents should be held accountable and should face the same punishment as the one they accused for allowing such wrongful actions to take place: lying; proceeding to hurt and manipulate their child, the accused, and others in the community; intending to continue such actions; and not fulfilling their parenting responsibilities. They are parents, they should know better. They endanger both kids in these situations, adding recklessness, as they are not only allowing their kids to lie to teenagers entering adulthood but also, they are lying to the community, addressing other parents and falsifying the age of their child. They have decided to take an action that has serious repercussions. Those proceedings should be held accountable in the courtroom. They should be convicted for their words being transformed into actions by their child and accepted by the accused’s parents. Guardians should know the difference between right and wrong. These parents abused our justice system, and they continue to cause the same emotional abuse over and over again by sending children to jail within weeks after they turn of age. They should be the ones behind bars, not our new adults still finishing high school. They have purposefully repeated the process over and over again. At some point, this has to be child trafficking. As such heinous crimes, when will both children - the accused and the accuser - be protected from the accuser’s guardians’ crimes?
With all things considered and after a deep understanding of the situation and clarification on social outlets, these parents are condoning and lying about their teenagers’ age. The teen then proceeds with the behavior in such discomforting disorder, following their parent’s example. Therefore, the influence of the parent and child relationship should be held in the court of law by removal of the child to live in a well-structured atmosphere, provided counseling of some kind, and required to do community service work so they not only understand their actions have consequences but also can find value in doing something more productive with their time.
Conclusion
Don't let my son’s situation become your child’s fate. I am asking everyone to digest the very idea that this inhuman type of character exists. It is unjust. I am asking you to think, if this was your child, nephew, cousin, best friend's son, grandchild, etc., would you sit on your hands and let this situation destroy your child’s future? It’s time to put an end to the injustice, and start fighting for our children going into adulthood by helping them to see how to trust, love, and grow in the environment around them. We cannot watch our system deprive them of their honesty, loyalty, and love because parents/teens couldn’t be these kinds of people in our society.
Please take a moment to sign this petition, show your support, for this is a pressing issue and our young boys and girls need to feel the value of life before it is taken from them. Help people who do wrong be held accountable for their actions. I am grateful for your time. Thank you!
-Christy
Tuesday, May, 11th 2022, 12:23pm
35
Petition created on May 19, 2022