Girls and Perverts

I've gotten several comments in the last couple of days about my post on June 8th. There needs to be some clarification about my post "A GOOD DAY". In the writing I called the alleged victim a girl. When you get as old as I am any female under the ages of my grown children are girls. The young lady in question is as old as my client and maybe even older. He is immature for his age which is 19. He was working in a food joint. He was in the walk in cooler when the lady came in. After some horsing around he tried to feel her up ( I do not know what young people call it now). Every one had their clothes on. That same night she went back into the cooler with him and they did it again. (Maybe you would call it light petting. Every ones clothes on - hands on the chest area.) There were others who were at the business. Several other employees a supervisor and customers. The young lady made no complaints to any of these people. She told her mother something when she got home. The next day when she came to work she made a report. Her mother called and called until they had to let the young man go. Neither person works there now. Her mother calls his family and makes threats and calls them names. He is a volunteer at an organization that helps feed the poor and provides them with clothing. The mother has started calling this organization and asking how a Christian group could have a rapist working there. She is calling other volunteers at home. She is calling the DA's office demanding that my client be sent to prison. She is talking to everyone she knows or does not know. She is claiming that the DA and the PD will not protect women from rape. My client is not charged with rape he is charged with sexual abuse which is a real stretch. However, if he is convicted he will not get any prison time but he will be on Alabama's pervert list for the rest of his life.

This is a law that needs to be changed. As a mother and grandmother, I understand not wanting to live unknowingly next to a child abuser. But everyone gets on the list here. If you are a man who has sex with an underage female no matter the circumstances you get put on the list if convicted. (There was a case not long ago where the girl told the boy that she was older. She looked really older. She was the aggressor. She kept after him to the point of taking off all of her clothes before he would do any thing. He was a virgin she was not exactly pure. The law is the law he was convicted and he is now on the list forever.) If you are convicted of exposure or a many other crimes you go on the list. Now the list means nothing. Who are the real perverts? No one knows!!