devil21
11-29-2014, 03:33 PM
This is the kind of police and prosecutor negligence that should have more focus. THIS type of injustice happens much more often than shootings do.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/11/29/5349976/man-wrongly-accused-of-sex-crime.html#.VHo5Xck0qFc
RALEIGH, N.C. A Johnson County man is trying to put his life back together after authorities in Harnett County wrongly accused him of being part of a child sex ring.
Tommy Wall said he lost his $55,000-a-year job he had for 15 years, his home was put up for auction and his reputation after his highly publicized arrest in June.
Wall was exonerated and his record expunged in October, Harnett County District Attorney Vernon Stewart said.
"I got nothing else to do. I got a house, and I'm living in it. I'm going to start working on the outside when the weather breaks." told The News & Observer of Raleigh (http://bit.ly/1vY7F4H ).
Harnett County deputies arrested Wall and four other people in June, charging them with making child pornography from a home daycare near Sanford.
Wall's lawyer said the only evidence authorities had against his client was Wall showing up on a camera in the home of Elizabeth and Bailey Joe Mills in 2011 when he delivered lumber as part of his job with Stock Building Supply. They have no idea why investigators were so sloppy.
"The picture of him was taken when he visited Elizabeth Mills well before the time period (when the crimes took place)," attorney Fred Webb said.
Both Bailey Joe and Elizabeth Mills have pleaded guilty to federal charges of making child pornography, but still face several state charges of sexually abusing children.
Investigators should have also paused when Wall said he did not know a man that authorities thought was the ringleader of the child porn operation and who has not been arrested.
Stewart, Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins and the lead investigator all refused to talk to the newspaper about the case and why Wall was targeted.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/11/29/5349976/man-wrongly-accused-of-sex-crime.html#.VHo5Xck0qFc
RALEIGH, N.C. A Johnson County man is trying to put his life back together after authorities in Harnett County wrongly accused him of being part of a child sex ring.
Tommy Wall said he lost his $55,000-a-year job he had for 15 years, his home was put up for auction and his reputation after his highly publicized arrest in June.
Wall was exonerated and his record expunged in October, Harnett County District Attorney Vernon Stewart said.
"I got nothing else to do. I got a house, and I'm living in it. I'm going to start working on the outside when the weather breaks." told The News & Observer of Raleigh (http://bit.ly/1vY7F4H ).
Harnett County deputies arrested Wall and four other people in June, charging them with making child pornography from a home daycare near Sanford.
Wall's lawyer said the only evidence authorities had against his client was Wall showing up on a camera in the home of Elizabeth and Bailey Joe Mills in 2011 when he delivered lumber as part of his job with Stock Building Supply. They have no idea why investigators were so sloppy.
"The picture of him was taken when he visited Elizabeth Mills well before the time period (when the crimes took place)," attorney Fred Webb said.
Both Bailey Joe and Elizabeth Mills have pleaded guilty to federal charges of making child pornography, but still face several state charges of sexually abusing children.
Investigators should have also paused when Wall said he did not know a man that authorities thought was the ringleader of the child porn operation and who has not been arrested.
Stewart, Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins and the lead investigator all refused to talk to the newspaper about the case and why Wall was targeted.