Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Update: Clean it and fry it!


Some may remember just about one year ago, when I wrote a post about my daughter's Girl Scout Troop Leader stealing her identity (along with the rest of the troop), then filing no less than 19 fraudulent tax returns to the tune of $187,000, of which $87,000 was received and spent. Well, the IRS isn't fast about what they do, but never let it be said that they aren't thorough. Holly Barnes was finally indicted by a Federal Grand Jury earlier this month. She faces 320 years in jail and 8 million dollars in fines. Like a hooked fish fighting the inevitable, she pleaded "Not Guilty".

I got my subpoena today, as did my wife who was the co-leader of the troop. That kinda pisses me off because we had planned on being in attendance as members of the viewing audience, not as witnesses. Being on the witness list precludes us from viewing the trial because in a court of law, no witness can be present for the testimony of another witness. We don't really have much to testify to, basically that we didn't give her permission to use our daughter's Social Security Number and that our daughter isn't a 19 year old model who made over $100,000 last year. Seems to me like they could depose us and get that information in the form of sworn statements but I'm no lawyer. I was just really looking forward to watching this fish flop around in the frying pan.

In the United States District Courts, there are NO PLEA BARGAINS. You plea straight-up to your charges and are at the mercy of the court when it comes to sentencing. As I understand it, the IRS has the highest conviction rate of any Federal Law Enforcement Agency, better than 95%. This case is pretty much a slam dunk. Holly is no genius and left a fat trail of bread crumbs for the Agents to follow. Coupled with her "confession", it should make for a tidy little conviction. And as if that weren't enough, it seems, the State of Florida has her up on 10 outstanding warrants unrelated to this case. I think it would be sufficient to say that she's going spend some time in prison. Though I'm quite sure the maximum sentence of 320 years will not be imposed, I would suspect that it would be safe to assume that she will spend at least 5-8 years in the slammer. I'm not a big fan of the IRS but I'm sure rooting for them on this one.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

This is what a monster looks like.


How does a sick, demented piece of crap such as this become a Federal Prosecutor? HOW? This has got our community rocked to its core. Assistant US Attorney Roy Atchison has been a prosecutor here for a hell of a long time. He lives in a very affluent local community here outside of Pensacola. He has a wife who teaches at a local High School. He is involved in various civic organizations and is...sorry...WAS highly thought of. How does a person who would travel clear across the country to have sex with a FIVE year old girl keep such monstrous intentions under wraps? This bothers the hell out of me.

Atchison was arrested without incident Sunday in Detroit after disembarking a plane he thought would carry him to a sexual encounter with a 5 year old girl whose mother had decided to offer up her daughter for sex with men. He showed up with a doll, some hoop earrings and a bottle of petroleum jelly. I want to vomit thinking about how prepared he was to entice and rape a girl barely old enough to go to the bathroom by herself. Thank God this girl was fictitious and the Mother was an undercover Detective, but one has to wonder how many he may have victimized already. By his own words in his various online chat conversations with the mother/detective, he's "done it lots of times" assuring her he knew what he was doing and wouldn't hurt the little girl.

Turns out the sick pig has his own Myspace page saying he:

..."likes to spoil young girls". Under the user name fldaddy04 and captioned “Experienced, understanding Daddy,” Atchison allegedly described himself in his profile as: “Handsome, educated, professional, experienced Daddy. I love younger girls. Like everything about you ... how you think, talk, act. I’m very understanding and supportive ... never ever judgmental.” The Internet profile goes on to say that he would like to “pamper, spoil, change and take care of” girls. His general interests are listed as “surfing, diving, boating ... everything to do with the water ... music and cute girls.”
For several weeks now, Atchison has been communicating with the Detective online describing in vivid detail the various sexual acts he'd like to commit with the young girl. At one point, after setting up the meeting he coached the detective on what to say to the little girl. Tell her "You found her a sweet boyfriend who will bring her presents."

I'm going to go vomit now, then stand outside my little girl's room with a shotgun.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Justice is like the tides, it comes...and then it goes.

“Two counts of murder”…that’s what Bobby L Cutts Jr. is charged with. TWO. Why two? Because he allegedly killed Jessie Davis and by doing so also killed her UNBORN child. This puzzles me, not because I disagree with the charge, but because Ohio, like most other states, seems to have a double standard when it comes to killing the unborn.

Though the state has a few more hoops to jump through than others, abortion is still legal in Ohio. A woman can, choose to have a licensed physician terminate the life of her unborn child and society will call that choice equitable and fair. But if someone punches her in the stomach and causes her to miscarry, technically, that person can and should, rightfully be charged with murder.

It seems Ohio (which is not alone in this particular view) is perfectly willing to acknowledge that a fetus is a “human being” with all human rights intact…so long as the mother “wants it to be”. But no one charges a physician with murder when he performs an abortion, though, by every definition of the word, that is exactly what he is doing. No one would dream of charging the mother, with accessory to murder when she's the one who funds and authorizes the act and provides access to the victim. No one considers the legislators and judges who essentially sanction the act to be directly or even indirectly responsible for the death of an aborted child. Yet they have no problem charging Bobby L Cutts with two counts of 1st Degree Premeditated Murder.

Don’t get me wrong. If Bobby Cutts killed Jessie Davis and her child, then he deserves a speedy trial and a potent intraveneous cocktail. Death isn’t good enough for her killer, because one can only experience death once, and this killer killed twice. On that fact, I agree with the State of Ohio. But what of the hundreds of children who die, not at the hand of an enraged attacker on a dirty street, but at the “healing” hands of a physician on a sterile table?