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  1. #1
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    Default Father Was Framed, Rights Stolen Away

    My question involves criminal law for the state of: Maine

    To fully understand what's going on, I need to tell the whole story. This is a very long post, but I pray to the spirits that you may read it all. Please pay close attention, as it's easy to get details of this story mixed up. I have nowhere else to turn to, and my family (or what's left of it) has been wronged in the worst way. I do not fear a defamation lawsuit from the other parties involved. Please, please help.

    I can't quite remember the year, but I couldn't have possibly been older than 12, although I was probably 11. As of now, I'm 17, so roughly 5 or 6 years ago, these events take place. My mother was still alive at the time all of this happened. We didn't even know she had cancer until much later.

    I used to hang out with three girls. For the sake of hiding my identity, we'll use nicknames for them. The first one, we'll call "1st Sin". 1st Sin was roughly my age. We used to play together, and she would hang out at my house all the time. The next two girls were sisters. We'll call them "2nd Sin" and "3rd Sin". They were older. About two or three years older. I used to hang out with them too. I was friends with all of these girls, and my dad would often drive us to the mall or the skating rink or the movies. But sometimes we just stayed at my house.

    However, the more often 1st Sin would hang out with me, the weirder she seemed to act. One day, I saw her on the couch, saying to my father, "ow I'm sick rub my tummy rub my tummy". Another time, when she was spending the night over, I saw her in the hallway, and she approached my dad, and said "when am I going to sleep with you?" When her step dad came to take her home one night, she jumped into his arms screaming "kiss kiss kiss!". She also frequently tried to get my father to buy her things at the mall, but he refused. She often said that her step dad would buy her whatever she wanted, and "wouldn't dare say no". By now you can probably figure out: Her step dad was sexually abusing her, and paying her with gifts. She must have thought the world worked that way, and thus tried to get my father to buy her stuff too.

    However, my father refused to buy her anything. Because of this, she decided to go to her mother, and tell her that my father touched her in a bad place. Obviously, she was lying, and her mother knew this, but did not care. Her mother was abusive, a con artist (she once tried to use the little boy in her family to commit health insurance fraud) and a liar. She might have even prompted 1st Sin (her daughter) to do all of this in the first place. It could have been all planned out.

    Just for kicks, 2nd Sin decided to tell lies and make false claims against my father as well. Soon her family was suing too, and her sister, 3rd Sin, collaborated her stories.

    My father sought the help of a police captain, who told him to plead no contest in court. He told my father that he shouldn't try to incriminate those Sins, even though they were lying. He claimed that the mother of 1st Sin, and the mother of 2nd Sin and 3rd Sin, would tell the truth if my father decided not to defend himself. As it turns out, it's illegal for a cop to give court-related advice to anybody.

    Gullible, my father listened to him. And naturally, the mothers and their Sins continued to lie, and my father lost the case. He spent a year in prison, and is now a registered sex offender. My mother passed away about three years ago, so I was unable to have any friends over at my house for the longest time, because of my father's legal status. Heck, we probably still aren't allowed to invite my friends over, but we do it anyway. My father said to me, "you need to have a life". So he doesn't care that he risks getting prosecuted, so long as I'm happy.

    But I'm not happy, and neither is he. With mother gone, I have to live under a few restricted rights, and my father has a massively immense amount of restricted rights. He can't get employed, because employers refuse to hire a registered sex offender, even though he's innocent. He also can't own guns, which means that when I come of proper age, I can't own guns either. At least not in the house. And worst of all, he has no health insurance, since he can't afford any. I only have health insurance because of the trust fund my mother left behind.

    My father (bless his heart) only wants my happiness, but I won't be happy until we get back our honor. I want my rights back, and more importantly, I want his rights back.

    So, how do we get his rights back?

    We can't hire a lawyer because we can't afford one. My trust fund won't become available until I'm 24, and my dad certainly doesn't have enough money.

    Please, you guys are my only hope. My mother is dead, my father was framed, and I was so young when all of this happened. It scarred me for life. I've posted my issue on other sites. Not like this one though. This site gives me hope.

    I need to know who to sue, and how to sue them. Do we sue the police department for their inability to conduct a proper investigation? They really botched the whole thing up. Do we sue the court? Do we sue the people who sued us?

    And how do I go about getting representation (a lawyer) without any means of paying the lawyer?

    Please, help us. I refuse to accept the possibility that things have to stay this way for the rest of his life! I just can't accept that!

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    Default Re: Father Was Framed, Rights Stolen Away

    So, how do we get his rights back?
    You hire an attorney.

    Yes, yes, you say you cannot afford one. But there's just no way a layperson - and that's what we are here, we're laypeople - is going to be able to sort through all of that drama up there and figure out what happened or what to do about it.

    Contact the Maine State Bar Association for a referral to an attorney who is willing to work on a sliding scale.

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    Default Re: Father Was Framed, Rights Stolen Away

    Even then, your chances are slim.

    Your dad admitted to the crime in open court. That is a tough hurdle to get past.

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    Default Re: Father Was Framed, Rights Stolen Away

    I don't know much details about "no contest", but if I'm right, that merely means that he never said he didn't do it, but didn't necessarily say he did. If I'm wrong, my mistake.

    I'll look into that Bar Association, but if that fails, I'd like to prepare a plan B:

    I've heard about free attorneys that cover certain cases regarding the government, but I've also heard they can't take up a case like this. Now we really and truly genuinely cannot afford a lawyer, not unless we KNOW we're gonna win and the lawyer allows us to pay him with the money we make from compensation. But even then, we'd also have to win back the court costs. If we might lose, we won't be able to pay the attorney, and we're screwed.

    However, if we can't get his "sex offender" status removed, we'd at least like to try to get some rights back. Is there any way we can lobby for my dad to be able to legally own his guns again? If not, is there at least a way he can legally live near guns in a house that contains some that don't belong to him? (In other words, if I were to own my own guns when I come of age, is there a way I could legally keep them in the house we both live in?)

    Much more importantly: Is it illegal for somebody to deny him employment because of his "sex offender" status, and if so, is there any way to successfully sue those who do?

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