In 2006 I was falsely accused of child sexual abuse!
Welcome to the story of my personal nightmare that I could have only imagined as the plot to a John Grisham novel…before it actually happened to me!
In November, 2006 my life was immediately and permanently changed in countless ways. Because of the words of one person, I found myself facing multiple first degree felony charges – and the possibility of more than 35 years in prison! After three years of hell – I was one of the few fortunate VICTIMS of false child sexual abuse accusations – and I was ultimately cleared of all charges against me, although the effects of the false accusation still continue today.
The purpose of this website is to share my story – with the hope that I can encourage and inspire the countless others who find themselves in the same situation. With hope, support, a knowledgeable attorney…and a good deal of luck…it IS possible to get some of your life back.
I hope everyone gets something out of this website – even if in the future when you hear a story of an accusation like mine on the news you at least think that maybe the accused is actually innocent. The frequency of false accusations – I have learned – is staggering. Prior to being personally accused, I was like everyone else and always just assumed the guilt of those accused based only on the words of one person. I quickly learned that a charge of abuse of a child is the most dangerous charge there is – it is better to be accused of murder. There is no other criminal charge with a higher conviction rate. There is no other criminal charge where you don’t have the right to face your accuser. There is no other criminal charge where there is no need for any physical evidence to get a conviction – it is one person’s word against another – and juries almost always believe children over adults. There is no other criminal charge where the assumption is ALWAYS guilt…even when there is no evidence. You are absolutely guilty until you prove your innocence!
I will not be using any identifying information on this website – as (believe it or not) there could actually be legal actions against ME (the real victim in my case) for things I share here. Because of that risk, some pieces of information that are not relevant to the content of the story (such as my real job, employer, where I live, people’s names, etc.) will be changed to protect the identity of those involved.
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PAGES IN MY STORY:
First Experience With A Lawyer
To read about the impact of a false accusation on family and friends please click here.
Thanks for your bravery and persistence in creating this site. While my circumstance is different in degree, it is a mirror to your horror. I was accused of sexual harassment at work and lost my job after a quasi-judicial procedure just like the one you experienced under the cover of “law.” Responses to sexual harassment have adopted the guilt-first doctrine of sexual abuse or assault. And, as you know very well, once you lose your reputation, it can never be won back.
I hope others will take hope from your site and expand this inquiry to all forms of false accusation.
I currently have an appeal going in the Ontario courts. I did nothing, but still got an assault conviction anyway!
i do too and im tottaly inocent, im lost on what to do. I filled and appeal and have a hearing on the 4th. Im not sure if i should go without an attorney. i need some answers please before the hearing.
I was married to Kathleen *******. in 2010 I lost my job while unemployed I looked at our bank statements and found that she was spend on average 400$ a month on dog and cat food and other crap but not sending $ to any of my medical bills.I returned to work at Cti in springfield,mo ,not getting home I looked at super service. Still not getting home to mountainview got on bus from grand rapids,mi on may16 2010 I had called kathleen to see if. she was on her way I had asked her 3 times finally she said no and left me sitting in Springfield with no $ for food or a place to get out of the rain.after going back to work for cti I found out by my mother I had an ex parte restraining order against me saying I had grabed kathleen in the the fall of 09.I was not allowed to go to the house and get otr logbooks time place and date of my whereabouts to prove she was lying the judge granted order(Truman wells) back in Jan of 2010 when I lost my job with waller again I found myself having to get home without her help.before I had gotten home in Jan she had filed for foodstamps after I went to cti and went back to wi she stayed at which point still receiveing foodstamps.I forgot to mention we had 6 dogs and cats ea and 40 free roaming cats she fed pizza from caseys where she was working I called anyone I could think of including *** I later found out she was getting help feeding all the animals great way to spend tax $. kathleen had prior history of fraud when married to ***. I had asked Scott *** her first husband if his dad had struck katleen in the head with a board and he laughedand admittedhis dad did do it.in what world did it become my responsibility to provide for her kids because their dead beat dad refused to get a job or when they found him he’d quit.everything in that house located at 846 county road 3450 mountainview,mo was possible by me.my credit was destroyed she got the deduction for the house her kids and herself earn income credit probably.I was accused of something I didn’t do and wasn’t there.and she gets away with massive fraud and abuse.
***Edited by blog owner to remove identifying information***
Just like the Crucible…
I never thought that I would find any groups of people that are willing to get out in the open these kinds of topics, especially because of the negative stigma society throws at people accused of any child crimes. My friend as of today, Nov. 8, 2011, has done 15 years on a 60 year sentence in Georgia for a crime the victim said never occured. A total hearsay case. And to add insult to injury, his indictment accuses him of the acts over 2 months after the police did thier report of the case. Its like the cops doing a report of a bank robbery months before someone shows up to rob it. This prompted me to start a Facebook account on this and our goal of implementing an indefinate international boycott on the entire state of Georgia. Look for my name on Facebook, Toby Jackson with the Atlanta Falcons football emblem. We hope to create a website to expose all the facts and a Paypal link to a non profit trust account for anyone wishing to donate to help hire a lawyer to take the case, like actor Johnny Depp did for the West Memphis Three just recently. Anyone wishing to provide tips or guidance on what we need to do to get this accomplished, please feel free to email me at: tobyjackson1508@yahoo.com ……and to all of you out there, we feel your pain. We understand. We are always here for you if you need someone to talk to. WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS.
Thanks so much for your support Toby. Without talking about it – the ‘general public’ will have NO IDEA how frequently this occurs. You read about the accusations and arrests in the newspaper, but you NEVER see or read about when that person was proven innocent!
I don’t believe any of us thought prior to it happening to us that falsely accusing someone of something could result in a conviction. Our whole family was shocked, still to this day that our son is in prison for the “invisible crime.” We will continue to fight for his exoneration and continue to speak out about how this type of crime is the worst of the worst, destroying the children, the families and the truly innocent individuals involved. I received many emails asking why I won’t post the so called crime and it is for the very reasons you’ve stated. To protect the children and to protect ourselves. Vindictiveness comes in all forms but this type truly destroys lives forever. Keep strong and know we support you and appreciate your website. The more the public is informed, the more the potential jurors will learn about the true “justice system.”
Wow this story is so close to somebody I know who is going through the same thing! Randy Price in Baltimore falsely accused him of touching him and he went to jail for it. Now that the court threw out the case he and his family are mad. I will tell him to visit your site and maybe it will encourage him.
my son was falsely accused of sexually abusing his cusin ,he was 14 and the child was 4, 5 years after the fact, the dad come back in said he did not see anything , the reason why he said he saw something, because he was abused as a child, but my son has been going through this for 11 yrs he can’t get a job are anything, he is now 25 yrs old, because of the little boy father, my son do not have a life, now the dad come back and try to make up for what he did, but it to late his life is mass up.
my son has been wrongfully accussed of sexuall touch with my cousins daughter who was 14 at t time she is 17 now she had no shred of evedice only some texts messages she said she had , 3ppl had stored them on their phones but ,1 lost their phone 1 lost sim card t other deleted them by mistake ? t police were not in court 2 back it up cos they were on holiday , t judge commented on his summin up it was very very poor policeing he said t my son u r not a danger 2 t public iam given u t lowest i can give u 3yrs ? 4 what ? doing nothin
Hi there,
I want to thank you for sharing your stories. We are going through a similar story with my spouse . It’s so freighting, he was accused with indecency with a child. I never knew how corrupt the District attorney really is. There is no way this “crime” could have happened because there was too many people around. It goes to show that any child can makeup a story. God help me!
We as well had “too many people around”. We even had a credit card statement showing we took everyone out to dinner as well as exculpatory DNA but it didn’t matter to our incompetent jury. They felt it was better to fall asleep during testimony, eat with the victim and family and be left unattended outside smoking with the other side. Be as prepared as you can be because once they convict you, you will fight harder than you’ve ever fought to have your loved one vindicated.
My husband was falsely accused by an adopted daugther as a revenge tactic just after she left home at 18. I know he is 100% innocent~ He was convicted on her story alone, and was sentenced to 20 years to life. I feel so helpless .. there is nothing I can do~ This is just so wrong~
My boyfriend made the mistake of marrying into a VERY dysfunctional hillbilly family. There were three sisters including the ex-wife. They were all molested by their brother. All of the sisters got a divorce. And ALL of the ex-husbands were accused of some sort of abuse…including my boyfriend. The first sister’s ex-husband died of a heart attack during his accusations, the second sister’s husband was put away for a couple of years for abuse and now my poor boyfriend has been accused, tried and convicted without a shred of evidence of this heinous crime. He is now facing 75 years in prison for something he did not do.
His representation was poor and he was not given a fair trial. He had plenty of evidence and several witness that were denied in the motion process.. Did I mention they did NOT have ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE!
I realize the mere thought of an adult touching a child in the wrong way turns our stomach..
But, the justice system fails all the time. Had he had due process he would not be in this situation. He was guilty the second he walked thru the door. He never had a fair chance to defend himself.
This is a person’s life that this family has destroyed.
We pray every day for his appeal to go through and do it’s justice.
My husband has been falsely accused by my niece who was 13 Yrs. old. I believe in his innocence 100%. Then the da and all that brought our own 6 yr. old and misled her and they said she disclosed. He has not seen his children in a year and a half and he just went for pretrial where they offered him 55 yrs. We turned it down so now we’re getting ready to go to trial. It scares us to death of what could happen because I know the legal system is so screwed up and biased. They automatically assume that you are guilty. Please if you have any suggestions let me know.
I always love the novels of John Grisham, they are full of suspense and surprises :
i aiso was acussed of a crime god knows i didnt commint iwas acussed of attemp murder attemp robber and sentence to100 years i did about 4 year my case was over turn by applet court i was given another trial only for the pursuctor to give me an plea for time serve no probation the only reason i took the plea is because i was rape repeatly in prison an my mom was dying of cancer with she died in my arms im mad as hell because because the system knew they had the wrong man i use to believe every thing hear on the news about someone being accused of this and that because it happen to me i hurt ever day and relive all that happen to me were is the justise
On the opposite side of the world i am living your nightmare which for me only started 7 months ago, I don’t know where you gain your strength from to continue, I’m struggling BIGTIME!
Stay safe
The issue of false rape claims is discussed in detail at: http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com
For a primer:
http://falserapearchives.blogspot.com/2010/01/false-rape-primer.html
Men and Women both are victims of false accusations. It is a civil and human rights issue.
My son was married to a woman who talked about a plan she had to falsely accuse her father of molesting her when she found out he had been having an affair. We always just thought she was a mean spirited girl dog; but she kept telling how she and her sister had warned her dad if he ever left her mother, they would take care of him. After 15 years of marriage, my son decided he could take no more of her meanness; so he told her he was leaving. Their 14 years old daughter steps up to the plate and accuses our son of molesting her. It turns out she has Borderline Personality Disorder–it is not borderline anything. She is a full blown sociopath! (Google BPD and see what these people, especially teen girls are like).
To make a very long story short, our son has been locked up for 5 years and 8 months. We had prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of council–including collusion with the PA, our second attorney had Alzheimer’s Disease. Our family spent our collective life savings, only to have him convicted. We have had one ruling by the Missouri Court of Appeals that deals with esculpatory evidence. When it was remanded back to our county, the new PA dismissed it and said our son should never have been charged in the first place. We continue to fight. Keep us in your prayers.
I would love to know where in MO this occured. My brother is being falsely accused of 10 counts of sodoly towards his stepdaughter. The grandparents have always hate him and when their daughter, my brothers wife decided to move to MO, they called the hotline in MO and falsely accused him of horrible things. The PA is going for the jugular on my brother, tampering with the case, threatening witnesses and even located my brothers ex wife-they have a child together that my brother has had full custody of for 6 yrs, and got her to lie in order to get her son back. She hasnt even tried to see or talk with her son in a year and a half! Now, she is saying that my brother molested her-the exwife, and their son. The PA is changing everyones testimonies to be what she wants and filing extra charges against him to attempt to revoke his bond and throw him back in jail. He is innocent and out of money. Any ideas to help would be appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you. We have so much information recorded, as we record everything that makes all of her witnesses out to be liars!
My friend, we all see and watch this on TV all the time and no one really knows what goes on in the back ground. When the show is over we turn the TV off or change the channel and go on with our lives. I know you lived this and suffered through this for a long time. You stayed strong and made it because of friends and family. Well never forget that the same friends and family will always be with you no matter what till the end and that comes from the heart. You turned out stonger that most of us will ever be by going through what you did. I hate to say this, but as we live in the greatest country in the world our judicial system sucks and has for many year. If any one can make a change in it, it will be you because of your strength. As I once said in a letter I would be proud to have a son like you and I mean that.
Bless you my friend
Thank you for your support. It means so much!
Dear Friend,
It has to take alot of strength to share your story, with everything you have been put through. I know how strong of a person your are and from your story you will remain forever strong. God has truly blessed you my friend. Your faith remained strong throughout the nightmare and your friends are so proud of you.
Best of Luck on your story
Thank you. It is ONLY because of the support of friends like you – and my family – that I was able to keep going to wait it out for the result we all knew was right. There were times, as you will read about, that it would have been so much easier just to take a plea offer to get it over with and move on…but due to friends’ encouragement I knew I couldn’t do that and let them down. Thanks again – and I hope you enjoy reading!
Yes, it is only through the gift of God that we have been able to endure this nightmare. He has put us in contact with many others that lend moral support, we have been extremely blessed to have the support of our own family, our church family and many we have never met. It is through our faith that we can endure this pain. Knowing this, I believe that God has a plan through this and if that plan is to keep informing others, then you are doing an amazing job! As difficult as this is, we have always had the strength of God behind us.
The courage and strength it takes to share your “nightmare” is so admirable! Most of us would want to put it all behind us and move on, but to relive your personal experience and share your story with others in the hopes that it gives them the courage to not give up speaks of your truly caring character.
Thank you, “friend”, for those kind words! I think that even if it helps just one person – the way faslelyaccuseddad.com encouraged me – then all the time it takes (much more than I imagined) is so worth it.
A great idea I was given the other day to help this site give back even more was creating some income off the site by hosting ads, etc – and donating that money to groups that advocate for, and assist others falsely accused and falsely convicted like the ‘False Accusation Team’ and the ‘Innocence Project’ that I have linked here…
Thanks again for your encouragement – and keep reading!
I just wanted to thank everyone for the early interest in the site! There were over 150 views in just the first 24 hours! I hope you all subscribe to get my updates (up there in the upper right corner) – and come back often to see what else is new. Take care!
~IWFA