holland10102
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Writing from Georgia with a question...
I have a friend who went through a difficult divorce in which his wife left him for another man. In a power-grab move his ex-wife leveled accusations of child cruelty that brought SWAT to his house where they arrested him and charged him with Child Cruelty. The whole thing was initiated by a malevolent-mother/ex-wife accusation, who was then successful in getting him to surrender his parental rights and plead guilty to the charges to avoid prosecution with the possibility of prison time. The ex-wife has continued to manipulate areas of his life from a distance through meddling with employers, romantic interests, etc. while the man has tried to move on and abided by no-contact and other stipulations.
My question... There were a few articles published by local papers about the "big" SWAT take down in which he calmly walked out of his house to authorities, and there was a follow-up article published once the prosecutor penned the deal taking his parental rights away. The articles include disparaging comments from the ex-wife and her current husband saying they were scared of him, and the prosecutor saying she suspected he was "prone to violent outbursts, possibly due to steroid use" which was never substantiated or even a part of the accusation or case proceedings.
The articles also included comments from the DA office, and defense attorney but my friend was not ever given an opportunity to respond to the accusations in the same medium/newspaper and the initial write up seems like a lot of speculation that wasn't all substantiated and the follow-up piece omits details that give an untrue or incomplete picture of my friend .
Is there any established protocol or recourse for navigating this type of issue?
I have a friend who went through a difficult divorce in which his wife left him for another man. In a power-grab move his ex-wife leveled accusations of child cruelty that brought SWAT to his house where they arrested him and charged him with Child Cruelty. The whole thing was initiated by a malevolent-mother/ex-wife accusation, who was then successful in getting him to surrender his parental rights and plead guilty to the charges to avoid prosecution with the possibility of prison time. The ex-wife has continued to manipulate areas of his life from a distance through meddling with employers, romantic interests, etc. while the man has tried to move on and abided by no-contact and other stipulations.
My question... There were a few articles published by local papers about the "big" SWAT take down in which he calmly walked out of his house to authorities, and there was a follow-up article published once the prosecutor penned the deal taking his parental rights away. The articles include disparaging comments from the ex-wife and her current husband saying they were scared of him, and the prosecutor saying she suspected he was "prone to violent outbursts, possibly due to steroid use" which was never substantiated or even a part of the accusation or case proceedings.
The articles also included comments from the DA office, and defense attorney but my friend was not ever given an opportunity to respond to the accusations in the same medium/newspaper and the initial write up seems like a lot of speculation that wasn't all substantiated and the follow-up piece omits details that give an untrue or incomplete picture of my friend .
Is there any established protocol or recourse for navigating this type of issue?