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Hi everybody - Terry O'Malley - thanks for visiting our website today.
I want to visit with you about a pretext call in a *** assault
on a child case. In particular these cases are used by police
and sheriff's deputies to trick you into making statements
when you don't know police are on the line. Imagine that some girl has made an
allegation that you had some
inappropriate *** contact with her. Well, what the police do is they will invite this
teenager, or this girl
to make a phone call from the police station to you, except the caller ID is
fooled, and what they do is they make it so that the caller ID of the child's
home, or the child's cell phone
is going to show up on your phone, even though they're at the police station,
and when they're at the police station, the caller ID is giving you the impression that
you're talking to the child
at their home or in a safe environment, you're actually being recorded at the
station,
and the police officer is there, and the police officer is making notes and
feeding information to the child as they talk to you.
The officer is actually the one steering the questioning,
and once the officer gets certain components
necessary for a conviction, then what they'll do is move on to the next
component and try to fill all the elements necessary
to convict you of *** Assault on a Child. And so,
if you have any indication at all that a child
wants to talk to you about *** contact - that you may or may not have had -
refuse to participate over a telephone call
about that. Now wires, and
in-person recording devices are much less frequent, although they do exist.
But, you'd be in a much safer position in meeting the child
at a restaurant, or something like that. But really, the bottom line is...
...if I could give you some advice it would be: Don't talk to a child at all
about prior *** contact if a child contacts you
and says "hey, I wanna visit about this," or "I want to help resolve some issues," or "I
want to get this off my chest," or "I want to find out what happened," "I'm confused
about what happened."
Those are things that are just not really common. Traditionally,
children don't do that unless they're being prompted by a police officer, or
some other adult
who is recording you, and somehow wants to use that information to convict you.
Above all else: If you get a phone call from a child,
or a parent of a child, or some loved one who wants to discuss this matter with
you over the telephone,
realize that's highly suspicious conduct, and likely the result
of police officers on the other end of the phone
helping that child, or that adult try to get evidence to use against you in a
court of law.
Something important to remember. Thanks for visiting our website today,
I hope you come in for a free initial consultation and talk with us
more particularly about the specific facts of your case.