I’m a Person Forced to Register (PFR) here in Missouri. My story starts out when I was just 18 years old. I was bullied in school because I had a learning disability and no one liked me because I come from a family of law enforcement. I remember this day like it was yesterday. I was made aware from my little sister that my friend assaulted her in the back of his SUV when I was changing for baseball practice. She came running in saying my best friend had touched her and tried kissing her. She was 10 at the time. My mom was scared to report it because when I was molested as a kid law enforcement didn’t do anything. So I decided to go to my school resource officer and report my friend. My friend was talked to from what I was told and he denied everything. A few weeks went by and I started getting bullied even more and threats from my friends calling me a liar all over social media. And I told my friends I wasn’t lying this kid had molested my sister and nothing was done about. That’s when everyone started saying I was the one that did it. Words spread like wild fire. Some how it got to my great grandmother and she talked to my sister in a parking lot at Lowe’s because she had seen a rash on my sister. My great grandmother reported it to my uncle who was at the time a sheriff deputy in MO. He contacted DFS and they got involved. On August 6th 2012 My family and I decided to have a day in St Louis to watch the Cardinals versus San Francisco Giants we had fun even tho we lost. After the game we went and stayed at the Hilton hotel in downtown St Louis and then next day we left the hotel at sweetie pies and then went to the city museum and then that night we went home. I went inside the house and gave my grandfather the rest of my peach cobbler pie I went upstairs got on Facebook and received a weird message about me hacking someone’s Facebook which I never done because I don’t even know how to hack computers or accounts. This person threatened to call the police and have files charged against me and I told him bring it on because I don’t know what they were talking about.
Later on that night around 9:00 p.m. I went to bed around 9:30 I heard a knock on my door and several O’Fallon police officers entered my room and asked me if I knew why they were there. I told them that I didn’t and they said because we had a report saying that you molested your little sister. I had a police officer come over and check my heart rate and then another officer by the name of detective smyka told me to go downstairs while my room was searched. When my room was being searched they took clothes from my hamper and took my laptop but they didn’t confiscate my phone and whatever clothes my sister was wearing while at the hospital they had my mom put in a bag. As I was downstairs with the detective he asked if I was willing to answer questions and I told him yes I’m not hiding anything. He asked if I wanted to speak in front of my grandparents and I told him yes and then he said that I’m a grown boy and I could go outside to a squad card answer questions. This is when detective smyka started berating me and harassing me about my mother and father’s relationship and said if I confess on the crime that I could go live with my father and if I don’t confess that DFS will take my sister away and I won’t have a relationship with my family ever again and he also mentioned that he seen that I was in the police explorers in St Peters Missouri and that I should be ashamed of the crime that I committed and I told detective smyka that I didn’t do anything and he kept calling me a liar and threatened up have me arrested right then and there. He coerced me into writing a police report and the police report I wrote I stated I didn’t do anything and then he looked at the report and read it over and said I was lying and he was putting words in my mouth saying well I heard you did this and you did that and that we’re talking to your sister at the hospital right now and this is everything she’s saying and I kept telling them that I didn’t do anything. And then he was telling me that I use drugs and all this and that he found marijuana in my property which I have never held on to marijuana whatsoever. And then he was joking around with another officer I don’t remember his name saying that he was under the influence of marijuana and other drugs and he wished that he could use drugs and just get away with it. Detective smyka kept saying that I did this crime and I don’t know how many times I told him I didn’t and he said I’m going to give you another police report and you’re going to write it like I told you how it happened. So me believe in that my sister was going to get taken away and have it in my heart believe in that I could go live with my father I did exactly what the detective told me. After the detective got what he wanted he got in a squad car and left and told me that I could go in my room pack my things and I’ll be living with my father by tomorrow morning and I believed him. On August 8th 2012. My mom came home crying asking what was going on and I told her I honestly don’t know. I was packing my things when my mom came running upstairs saying they were here and I asked her who’s here and she said the police That’s whenever the police came upstairs and put me on cuss and charged me with statutory rape and statutory sodomy. Whenever I was being escorted to my car my grandfather and my mom came outside running at them telling them don’t take me to jail because I didn’t do anything That’s when detective started cussing at my grandfather calling them bad parents and saying how can you let this sick f*** rape his little sister under your house and not know about it for all this time. I get put in the squad car and they start driving to the police station but it seem like they knew every single thing about me they knew about when my jaw got broken from a former classmate back in October of 2010 instead of driving me to the police station they took me to the trailer park where this kid lived and said they were going to arrest him and put him in the squad car with me they use this as a scare tactic. And then the detective kept asking did it feel good to do what I did and did I do it to any other girls I went to school with and I told him I didn’t do anything and he said it was too late I already wrote a statement on myself. They pull out the trailer park and start braiding me even more until we finally get to the police station. The next day I’m taking to St Charles county jail the first night I was there I was raped by my cellmate and was taken to it nearby hospital. St Charles county detectives which were two females question me about what happened and I told them that because my charges I was raped and the two detectives called me a liar and said I just said that I was raped so I could get these charges dropped and not being jail they said if that was happening why didn’t you press the call button that’s in the cell and I told them that I couldn’t press a call button because the inmate had complete control of me and was a lot bigger of me and I was in the basement for by the time I press that call button it would have been too late. The inmate could have killed me or severely injured me. By the time the officers from upstairs came down to help me I would have been helpless. Once again I was coerced to write another report saying that I wasn’t raped and I was charged with writing a false statement from St Charles county police. I have one the best lawyers in St Louis … and he straight through me under the bus. At first I would have gotten probation but I had no home plan I was told that I had nothing on me except that statement and I had a belief that the detective that was questioned me was under the influence of some sort narcotic and I told him how they took me to a different neighborhood and didn’t take me to police station and how he coerced me into making a statement. And how he took me to a squad car to make me answer questions that wasn’t recorded whatsoever. My lawyer didn’t care. At first my lawyer told me take it to trial but then at the last minute he had me take a plea deal because my sister supposedly had a video of her being questioned which I never got to see. I remember making a phone call to my mom and the discovery said that the only thing that was found on my sister was a small tear This was from the hospital my sister went to through the police department but then my mom decided to take my sister to Cardinal Glennon in St Louis with my sister’s father which we had two different fathers and my mom and my sister’s father can both confirm that the doctor she had seen said that my sister was not touched at all and all this was just a story in hearsay that somebody in the family was lying. I wanted to take my case so bad to trial but my lawyer said I was facing 30 years to life he said even though they don’t have any evidence I’m facing my uncle and other people from police department and since my uncle’s a sheriff that it will be hard to fight against and that I should just take a plea deal that way I could get out within 5 years or three and be with my family once again and also he mentioned that my mom didn’t want to put my sister on The stand because she didn’t want to have to put my sister through that. So I end up pleading 5 years of prison and I could get out in 3 years if I complete mosop. At my guilty plea hearing I put out the 5 years but my lawyer failed to tell me that I had to be on ankle monitor for life.
Once I got to prison a few years past and I was talking on the phone with my mom she asked if I was sitting down because she had some big news tell me well the big news she told me was that the detective that did my case ended up getting charged for stealing narcotics from the evidence room and using them to get under the influence. And it made me so mad because I told my lawyer in everyone else that this cop was crooked and nobody believe me and all he did was lie and steal. Now I have to suffer with this my whole life. When I finally got out prison I got to see my great grandmother and she admitted to her daughter my grandmother that she lied about the whole thing once she saw that rash on my sister it gave her flashbacks when she was molested as a kid and that’s why she reported it to my uncle and made up this whole story. If I could reopen my case and go back and get these charges dropped I would but now that my grandmother had passed away I can’t really do anything about it. Yeah there are some people out there that do do things the children but there’s also people out there that make up lies to get what they want or because they were impacted from something that happened in their life and they make up stories to make themselves feel good My whole life is ruined because of this. I seen that the judge had looked at my charges through Missouri case net and just completely ignored it completely ignored that to detective was put in prison for stealing in tampering with evidence in the narcotics room and didn’t even look into that with my case. My uncle has nothing to do with my family because they still talk to me because I know what happened and then the guy that did molest my little sister is still out there. My sister isn’t the only one he harmed several women in high school he had sexual encounters with that were under the age limit and I reported this to my resource officer and nothing was done he said he talked to the girls but all them said nothing happened because they were scared to admit they didn’t want to be known as the girl that got raped or touched by another person but now because they didn’t come forward in confess this guy’s out here still doing the same thing and I’m the one that had to take the weight and go to prison because of something he did and so locking up the real monster I’m the one that had my life ruined. I remember my friend was going to be a problem because him and I were in summer school together and he was nowhere on the property to be found he was late for class and so I went out to his car looking for him and here he was 17 years old with a 13-year-old female having sex in his car and he doesn’t get in trouble for it I gave these cops all the names of his victims and nothing was done and that upsets me. Even though I’m free I’m still scarred for life knowing that I should be out there pursuing my career as a police officer like I wanted to and being in the military but I can’t because of the charges that I pled guilty to. Cops lie they can lie and get away with it they will do anything to get a confession whether you did it or not and they pray on the young I was just turning 18 and it doesn’t matter how many times I told this detective I didn’t do it That’s not what he wanted to hear. Yeah I had some mental problems growing up in my teen years but who hasn’t. I made up stories you know to fit in but I’m not going to harm a child I was molested from the age of six to 10 from my dad’s girlfriend’s daughters and my mom brought that to her lawyer and they said nothing could be done because it was child on child The first one was 11 and then the other girl was 16 but yet nothing was done. Am I relief that the detective went to jail yeah but that doesn’t help me in my situation they should have listened to me. Looking through my Discovery All this detective did was write down dates he said from January 15th to July 13th I molesting and raped my sister July 15th is my sister’s birthday July 13th is my great grandmother’s birthday. In July I was at my father’s spent a whole month there I didn’t get back to August but yet the detective still put that down and I was always hanging out with my friend I would sneak out of the basement window to my house and they said these rapes happened at night My bedroom door was always open I could never close it that was a big thing in my house. The only reason why they think I did this is because my sister was watching p*** on her Wii at 10 years old how this started is that my friend and I I mean we were guys he would stay over we would talk about girls and watch movies with sex in it or p*** and my sister walked in. Plus she always played games on my computer That’s how she got a hold of it I never showed her it yeah I should have been a better brother and tell her that was wrong and I should have been more cautious especially having a young sister around or watching things like that that I’m guilty too. But like I said I would never harm a child. I can say is O’Fallon Police department is corrupt the whole justice system is corrupt if somebody from a department and a whole different county gives some information of course they’re going to listen to it because they’re part of a brotherhood doesn’t matter whether the person that the allegations are about is true or not. Police officers always listen to one another.