Welcome to the conclusion of this crimes against children case study! If you enjoyed this case, check back in the future for more interesting investigations!
If you’re caught up on previous blog posts, you know the defense counsel for my pedophile has made a Brady/Giglio accusation against me for “fabricating” facts in my report. The alleged fabrication? I stated I had “obtained a search warrant for the suspect’s phone” and had then “asked him for the passcode.” Remember that conversation between me and the suspect that I specifically told you to remember? No? Ok, take a second to go back and read it…
Yeah, hopefully you caught it. I hadn’t “obtained” the search warrant before asking for his passcode. I had “applied” for it, asked for his passcode and “obtained” it mere hours later. That’s it. I used the word “obtained” when I should have said “applied.” A very easily correctible and simple human mistake. That was the gigantic fabrication alleged by a highly compensated and well-educated attorney.
And that’s all it took for this case to go from sending a prolific sex offender to prison on off-grid felony charges to allowing a child rapist to walk the streets. As long as he promises to be good and registers as a sex offender, of course. It didn’t matter that I had all the evidence necessary to incarcerate him for much of his adult life. Nope, the District Attorney’s Office didn’t want to have to go through the work of a Brady/Giglio Hearing so they dropped a majority of the charges and offered a sweetheart of a deal. It was such a good deal, I’ll call it the “Hunter Biden” plea.
Another issue with the case was that, although MegaNZ had provided me with all the information willingly, because it hadn’t come from a search warrant there was no “official” Letter of Authenticity from MegaNZ. Meaning, a defense attorney would try to claim the information I received from MegaNZ didn’t actually come from MegaNZ. And that it was all one big conspiracy to convict his innocent client of heinous charges. The prosecution wouldn’t be able to call anyone from MegaNZ to the stand to testify to the authenticity of the data because they wouldn’t comply with a subpoena to show up in court.
And just like that, my case evaporated. Not because the evidence wasn’t there. Not because I hadn’t painstakingly gathered everything necessary and chatted undercover with this dork for over a year. But, because of technicalities. Technicalities built into our criminal justice system. With the right amount of money anyone can pay a highly skilled attorney to locate and exploit them. Even with Mr. Nature Center showing up to have sex with a 14-year-old girl and the presence of toddler porn on his work cell phone, his charges amounted to nothing but a slap on the wrist.
Welcome to my world and the world your children live in. Throughout my career, I’ve experienced a lot. I’ve led SWAT Operators into disgusting drug houses while carrying a ballistic shield. I’ve responded to scenes of suicidal teenagers, involving trains and decapitated bodies waving at me from the underside of the train engine. I’ve fought men (and the occasional woman). Been shot at while trying to conduct follow up interviews on the street and been squared up on in jail housing units. But, the most impactful experiences of my career have come investigating the scourge of pedophilia and the disgusting, morally bankrupt individuals who prey on children.
My reasoning is simple. Children are the most vulnerable population among humankind. They literally depend on adults for their very sustenance. For their safety. For their ability to communicate well, learn and express themselves. When an adult takes advantage of this vulnerability and commits atrocities against children, it affects not only that child but our entire society. And that damage doesn’t disappear after the traumatic event is over. That child victim will experience the trauma over and over for the remainder of their lives.
Unfortunately, they will also have a higher chance, statistically speaking, of repeating the behavior and victimizing a child themselves. The reality of this epidemic is that, by the time I respond, the damage is already done. The protection doesn’t come from me. I simply pick up the pieces and hopefully hold the abuser accountable. And, if I’m lucky, I can go undercover and catch one of these predators before they actually find a real child victim. But the protection has to come on the front end. From you.
Parents, coaches, teachers, social workers, day care workers, neighbors. We are all responsible for the protection of this vulnerable population. Not in a weird “Your Kids Don’t Belong to You/Joe Biden” kind of way. But in a way that speaks to the common good and morals of our society. One that says we care about the children of this world and will do what it takes to protect their innocence for as long as we can.
This blog is meant to be a compilation of actual cases mixed with the latest in academia regarding child victims and the predators who abuse them. It will also contain various articles written by subject matter experts on other pertinent law enforcement topics. I’m sharing them because I want the information and the reality of the problems we face as a society to find its way into the hands of the capable and those who have the power to stop it.
That being said, this blog is also meant to be entertaining. You can’t work in my position, see what I see, and not develop a dark, and often twisted, sense of humor. It comes with the territory. And, psychologically speaking, it helps deflect some of the emotional trauma that any child crimes detective experiences by coming face to face with atrocity after atrocity. So, thank you in advance for being my free psychologist. I can’t afford a real one.
Enjoy content from Guardian Training Solutions? Make us one of your preferred sources on Google.
