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MEGANS LAW - A STORY 

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Megans Law - A Story


We are fighting for my grandson's life. My daughter was 16 when she got pregnant. The baby's father was 19. We wanted to make good of a bad situation and stood by both of them and offered our support. There was something odd about the baby's father but I couldn't put my finger on it. He was so possessive.

Anyway, when the baby was four months old, we received an anonymous telephone call telling us "watch out for the Baby". We also had something else to draw our suspiscions that something was wrong with this guy. I started to investigate and went to the police for answers.

It turns out that he is one the top 5 child molesters in Connecticut. He was on probation and not suppose to even be with my daughter. That's why he was so possessive because he was afraid to be seen with her. Anyway, when the courts found out about my daughter they had her testify at his trial. He had already served 2 years in a sexual offender facility in Colorado and then was put on probation for 3 years with several conditions. He had broke all his conditions. My daughter testisfied and the judge put him in jail for 2 1/2 years.

He is due to get out in October. He has a terrific, well known lawyer because he is trying to sue the probation department for harrassment. We didn't have any lawyer because we don't have much money.

Last week we got a letter from his lawyer that he wants visitation rights when he gets out of prison. He wants to know my daughters intentions. When he was first in jail, we tried to get him to terminate his parental rights but he refused. Well, I called everyone and anybody I could think of for help. The lawyers wanted $5,000 retainer and could cost up to $20,000 because they say this going to be a big case especially going up against his lawyer.

We were finally able to get help through the prosecutor that put him away, she is going to find a lawyer to help my daughter. Needless to say we are scared. I have even been on our radio station and they were doing a segment on sexual offenders. They had me send them some info and they are going to get our Senator involved.

It seems like everytime you open the newspaper, or hear the news on TV there is something going on about sexual offenders. This is in our favor. If we can't get termination, we will have to accept visitation but we want supervised with several conditions, ex. no overnight, never alone with him.

So that's where we stand right now. We are going to get restraining orders when he is released. My daughter and her baby don't live with us anymore so we both have to get restraining orders. My daughter goes to hairdressing school and I babysit for him while she is there so he is at my house a great deal. He lived with us the first year and a half (he is 2 now). I watched him being born. He is my world.


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