| Subject: Posted by Earl Neff |
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Date Posted: 04/26/07 9:00pm
Ok everyone, I am here to set the record straight about my past once and for all. Yes, it is true that I am a convicted sex offender. I guess I will start at the beginning so everyone understands what exactly happened and when. I met a girl when I was 17 years old, through friends of friends of the family. She was a couple months shy of 15. We were at an all day outing with a bunch of people and we got to talking and things just kind of clicked for us. We talked on the phone for a couple weeks before she asked her parents permission to go out with me. Her parents allowed us to be together even though we were so far apart in age. Over the course of almost two years we were a couple. I was allowed to stay the night, she stayed with me on weekends after I got my own place. These things were acceptable to her parents at that time. In 1991 about the time school got out her parents told her that they didn’t want us seeing each other anymore. Unbeknownst to me, she had been talking to her mother about moving in with me after high school and getting married, and this got her parents concerned. They wanted her to go on to college and didn’t want me to deter her from this. They met with me and told me their wishes and I tried to do it, but she would call me and I loved her so I would answer. We were together almost 2 years for god’s sake, you just don’t turn love off and on, and it was worse because we WANTED to be together and it wasn’t our choice. We were caught together by her parents one night at a friend’s house and they warned me again not to see her. When they caught us we were making out. The second time we were caught together it was at my apartment and we were making out and her shirt was open and my hand was on her breast. They said that since we would not cooperate they were going to the states attorney. When they got her home she threatened to run away from home to be with me. Anyway, the state’s attorney was called and they started an investigation in July of 1991. A couple weeks later on August 3rd I was arrested and officially charged with two counts (One for each time her parents caught us) after warning us not to be together. My birthday is August 11, 1971, I was charged when I was 19 years old, and convicted January 7, 1992. I was 19 when charged and 20 WHEN CONVICTED, and she was still a couple months shy of 17 when I was charged.
Since all this has happened I have tried everyday to get along with my life, but my 1st wife decided to get hooked on prescription medication and throw her life away. A few days after telling her I was suing her for custody of my little girls I was served with an order of protection stating that I had molested my daughters. I was arrested and charged with predatory sexual assault based on my previous charge only. At the first court date where I was to enter a plea of not guilty, the states attorney dropped all charges because there was not a shred of evidence to back up any sort of abuse. It was determined that she was trying to use my past to get a jump on custody. I proceeded to not only beat the order of protection, but successfully sued for sole custody of my children. My previous history was brought up at every chance she could until Judge Jerelyn Maher (yes, a women) pulled the case file and determined that the previous charges had no bearing whatsoever on me being able to have custody of my children. I, a convicted sex offender, was given SOLE custody of my two girls at ages 4&5. I really do not think that a Judge would have given me custody if I could be dangerous to my kids. I live in a house with 4 girls, there are people on that list that can’t even live with their children because of things they have done.
The only reason I am still on this list is because after I received temporary custody of my children, my ex- wife called the Pekin Police Dept and complained that I had not yet registered and wanted me arrested for it. The situation at the time was that I confused the date of one of the custody hearings with a case I had in traffic court for a speeding ticket. At the time I was supposed to re-register I had a warrant for my arrest and could not pay the warrant until I got paid a few days later on Friday. The lady at the police dept tried to work with me, but my ex-wife went over her head and had me arrested for the warrant and I was charged with failure to register as a sex offender and required to register another ten years. I only have one more year to go, and I am done with all this shit.
I would like to apologize to everyone for all the havoc that this whole ordeal has caused everyone on these boards. I have never posted on these boards and actually feel that most stuff that goes on in here is childish b*llsh$t. I had to respond to this vicious attack on my character not only to set things right, but to let Shanna know that I will not take this lying down and that this is not over by a long shot. Yes, I do have a very good attorney, and it would cost me a lot less to sue than to have this whole situation “taken care of”. My past has been drug out by people a lot better than you will EVER BE!!!, and every time I have won. I know several people on the list for the same kind of offenses as me and it sucks that there is no distinction for this so people looking at it would realize this. The few distinctions that are made are as follows: 1. victim under 14, 2. victim under 17, 3. Sexually dangerous, and 4. Sexual predator. Obviously, the last 2 categories would be the worst. I am very aware of the laws that govern what I may and may not do, and neither the IL State police, who administer the law, nor the Pekin Police Dept, who enforce the law, feel that I am violating these laws. If you take the time to get to know me you will find that I am as devoted father as you are mothers. I help Kelley with these pageants more than you will ever know. I do all the decorating, tabulating, and keep her from forgetting the little things that make her pageants special. As a father of 4 girls I am a very strong supporter of the sex offender laws, but like anything else the government does it has its flaws. I DO NOT BLAME ANYONE for being concerned for their children’s safety, and would probably have concerns of my own, but I would not attack someone’s character publicly the way mine was without some kind of attempt to resolve it first. I would like this whole incident to be over with and I most likely will not post here again. I am a very forgiving person and will forget about all this and be friends with anyone willing, except Shanna. I do not know that I will ever forgive you for what you have done the last few days on these boards. I could care less that you put that I am a sex offender, I deal with that everyday. It was the reasons that you posted it that truly offend me. I will discuss this with anyone that asks, the best way to fight DISINFORMATION is with the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!
To anyone who stuck up for me thank you all, I know some of you and thank you deeply. To those of you who won’t or just can’t deal with the truth, too bad sooooo sad, you’ll have to find something else to whine about because I don’t really care. I have talked enough, and all I want to on this subject. Good luck to everyone who comes to Nationals lets have fun and have a great pageant to make the ones who don’t come wish they did.
Earl Neff
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