Source: floridaactioncommittee.org 8/10/21
The family of a Texas teacher are suing a local police department, claiming that a detective drove him to suicide by unjustly arresting him as part of a sting operation.
A 39-year-old junior high school teacher from Conroe, Texas, poisoned himself to death with carbon monoxide just days after being released from the Montgomery County jail in August 2019.
At the time of his death, Peterson was facing a charge of online solicitation of a minor, which is a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a fine. If convicted, he also would have been required to register as a sex offender.
His suicide note (below) tells the story of what really happens in these stings.
Click this link to see the notes on the FAC website
I couldn’t really read his writing but for the most part it kinda sounded like he knew his life was over being a teacher he knew alot about the Megan’s law website and how people in the community felt about sex offenders.
Every school in America checks Megan’s law website on a daily basis looking for new offenders liveing in their communities and I’m pretty sure he had alot of conversations with his co-workes and friends about people getting busted trying meet minors online and how they all should never be allowed out of prison.
21 years ago everyone didn’t have internet access like they do now even people in prison have internet access I think if the internet was big as it is now I probably would’ve did the same thing.
Thank GOD I never did it though i thought about it BUT I got kids I couldn’t leve them hanging like that so I decided to live through this wide awake nightmare with hope that one day I’d go free then BOOM!!
Out of nowhere SB384 was passed and next year on my birthday I can petition to be removed from the registry never give up
Good luck
His final words makes a good point on why Law Enforcement posing as minors in a sting on an adult website should not hold justification for someone seeking out minors on an adult website for encounters. If a actual minor is on website created a profile that clearly states 18 and older, then that minor should be charged. I asked my minor children why kids make profiles on chat rooms and social media for 18 and older and don’t use social media or websites for their own age group? My children told me a lot of their friends create accounts with a false age because then they are not limited to what they (meaning the minors) can chat about. That reality to me was harsh. Teens do this all the time and it is a game to them. Regardless of what we as parent want to believe just walk on a middle school, jr high or high school campus and listen to what you hear coming out of most minors mouths. What children and teens discuss, text and share would shock and sicken us as adults I believe more then it would someone under 18 year old.
They call it a sting. I call it farming.
Still many Americans believe the cops would never create crime and people who were in these stings where trolling for minors. To many people need to get out from under their bridge.