Jim wrote:
Just looking for some basic advice. Day care center reports
suspected abuse. Husband confesses to police (on video) to
physically hurting 6-month old baby (out of frustration, he says)
and then claims they tricked him into confessing...and he really
didn't do it. He's charged with 3 felonies. Social Services says
wife is in denial because she's not angry at him, and they begin
to doubt her ability to properly care for child. Social Services
schedules a "Chip Case", presumably to be gain guardianship
and possible custody of the child for indefinite amount of time.
Isn't it in the best interests of the mother not to antagonize
Social Services? Should she get a lawyer? Did husband
make a big mistake in confessing, regardless of circumstances?
Police are investigating no further because of this. He faces a
year in jail. The state is MN.
Thanks much!
Jim
This is what happens when the cops really don't have a case.
They continously harass the chosen guilty party into a confession.
See the movie "persecuted" starring gene hackman.
An 11 year old girl was murdered and hackman, the astute high society man,
was blamed for it.
The investigator continued hounding hackman until hackman got sick and tired
of the inuendos and began to confess.
A detective comes bursting in and shows the evidence they found at another
crime scene by the real guilty party.
Only in Hollywood.
In the hey day of the geraldo rivera fiasco, the kids were being so hounded
by untrained investigators they began making up stories just to get the
investigators from talking to them.
If your guy is not guilty, he should have an attorney and learn to keep his
mouth shut.
"You have the right to remain silent." Excercise your rights.
Make the prosecution work to prove your guilt.
Innocent until PROVEN guilty rules.
One man I heard of did just that. He said absolutely nothing to the
investigators.
When asked by the judge why he did not say anything, he said, "I have the
right to remain silent and chose to excercise that right."
