A Mormon missionary, claiming that he was falsely accused of molesting two girls under the age of 8, was sentenced in District Court yesterday. During the sentencing (for violation of the plea agreement), John Misseldine maintained that he was innocent and that the mother of the children made the allegation in order to receive money from the Mormon church.
As always in molestation cases where it is the child's word against the accused molestor's word, it's difficult to figure out what actually happened. But here, the mother opened a civil case against the church in the childrens' names:
Records show civil lawsuits filed in 2005 in Clark County District Court against Misseldine, the Mormon church and others were closed in 2007 after the church set up trust funds of $400,000 for the older girl and $382,000 for theyounger girl and her sister.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/13036317.html
I'd feel bad for for the missionary, like maybe he was completely innocent and took the plea deal because it's always hard to prove a small child is lying about molestation, but he had possibly the lightest plea deal available (counseling and community service) and he violated it.
I'd feel bad for for the missionary, like maybe he was completely innocent and took the plea deal because it's always hard to prove a small child is lying about molestation, but he had possibly the lightest plea deal available (counseling and community service) and he violated it.
Does anyone else find it interesting that the Judge who finds this
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the paper for his own unethical and illegal acts?
http://judicial.state.nv.us/decisiononmosley20023new.htm
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jun-28-Wed-2006/news/8203986.html
http://www.harmfulerror.com/2007/04/new_allegations_against_judge.html
http://vegasblog.latimes.com/vegas/2006/06/justice_and_jui.html
Anyone else but me wondering why this man is still a judge?
They allegedly pitched a program to casinos to do an end run around law enforcement and the courts. It was to have worked like this, authorities allege: When the casinos’ security forces detained people on trespassing and other minor criminal charges, the casinos were to route those people into United States Justice Associates’ program rather than calling police to make the arrests. Once enrolled in the program, the detainees would be charged $500 and the company would kick back $100 to the casinos for each person who completed the program, the affidavit says.
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