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Sex abuse is the latest expression of absolutism
His art became his life
A man commits an act of utter rashness
Kevin Brown made what may have been the most serious mistake of his life when on 23 February 2005 he telephoned Rick Robert's program on KFMB/San Diego in an attempt to challenge Roberts about a bounty he had placed on the lives of people like Kevin and others of the same sexual orientation. He also wanted to discuss a play he was producing about the subject. So, in affect, knowing that Roberts was engaged in the raising of a lynch mob, Kevin Brown phoned him live on radio, announcing his own status as a potential quarry.
His rash action was all the rasher in view of his being a previous ‘sex offender’, as he had one conviction for the possession of child pornography, his probation/treatment having ended a week after his only son was born.
Before readers condemn him outright for such seemingly-incredible rashness, some background may help to understand it. When he was fifteen, in trust he approached a guidance counsellor at his high school who had been friendly to him and told her of his struggles with his sexuality, hesitatingly admitting a love for children. That was to be his first experience of great betrayal, as the response of that ‘guidance counsellor’ was to have the State of Indiana seize and incarcerate him.
During his first month in their ‘care’, he was strapped to a bed, his pants and underwear lowered and his penis put in an open pair of scissors by the facility staff and Adolescent Program Director. They told him that they should cut his penis off. That was in 1985 and he has never recovered from the experience. After his release, he continued to mature into a ‘minor attracted adult’.
Married with a beloved baby son at the time of hearing the bounty offered by Rick Robert's over San Diego radio to hunt down individuals like himself, a deep chord within was touched causing him to take the rash action of responding. Over the years since his own incarceration and torture, he had tracked persecution and vigilante actions against minor attracted adults. He had become convinced that those promoting sex offender registers go to great lengths to assure the public that vigilantes and lynch mobs do not happen. For example, he had studied David Finkelhor for fifteen years since his university days, and had come to believe that his was a voice denying the truth.
David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, had claimed that although 43 states post information on sex offenders on the Net, vigilante acts against them are rare. Kevin Brown responds that it is no accident that such crimes are not tracked by the US Justice Department. If they were, they would show that such attacks are common and rarely prosecuted, as in the recent case of Lawrence Trant.
(http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/12/05/man_defends_attacks_on_sex_offenders?pg=full)
The price that Kevin paid for that call to the radio show was immense. But let us ask again why he did it. In the face of the bounty offered, and the dangers it created for a few, he wanted to take a stand on behalf of the physical safety of minor-attracted (NAMBLA members) in San Diego. Here is how he puts it: “A deep value that I have hoped to pass to my son since his birth is to stand up for what is right. My son would be the one to stand up for the mentally-handicapped, the obese, the ostracized in school. I have hoped to instil positive values in him. For me, calling into that radio show was a moral imperative. I would have felt hypocritical had I not, knowing the information I had at hand.
”We have a very small group in our community that is organized and aware of our enemy's actions and intents. Our enemies are organized and pursuing as a primary goal civil commitment statutes nationwide; as a secondary goal they are engaging in violent acts against us and setting a precedent for local prosecutors to not pursue criminal charges for their actions. What (is not widely known) is that Lawrence Trant was tried on relatively minor charges because the local prosecutor declined to pursue charges of first degree homicide against him.”
That thoughts of his son were central to his rash action was to be supremely ironical, because the action lost him his son and his wife. As he was to put it, “It would appear that confession of one's sexual orientation is enough to be considered risk enough now to lose your own children - whether or not any evidence of such things even exists.
- - - I have lost everything in my life over the stand that I took. ”
On 7 March 2005, he and his wife were visited by an IPD Detective and an FBI agent wanting to talk about the radio show. There were others with them. This is clear evidence that certain speech is not free in the US despite the First Amendment. They asked to search his computer, but he telephoned his lawyer and she said not without a warrant. There were no allegations of wrongdoing of any sort, other than his radio call. They did not have probable cause. Then however, he realized that the other individuals, accompanying the officers were Child Protective Service officials, who had not identified themselves. Had he known who they were, he would not have allowed them in.
They seized the two-year-old son, ‘the love of his life’, and took him to an emergency shelter. After the expected leaks to the media from the police and child workers, the story made the eleven o'clock news the following night on the local NBC affiliate and continued on other networks for several days. Newstrucks and camera crews rolled onto their front and back property, even into their backyard, which was 150 feet from the street, without permission. As he puts it, “It was a nightmare, but I am grateful for friends who helped me through.”
Marion County, Indiana, now alleges that the child is a Child In Need of Services as defined in IC 31-34-1. They had their first hearing two days later and lost. His wife had not known that he had called Rick Roberts, and now announced her divorce from him. He considered suicide, but realized that even that would not turn back events as she is being attacked separately also.
The State's petition is quite narrowly worded, alleging solely that their home is an unsuitable environment for their son because he had self-identified as a paedophile on the Rick Robert's show. As a Family Court document, it is sealed from the public and he would injure his case if he allowed it to fall into certain hands. This means that they have no means of filing Friend of Court Briefs without knowing the specific allegations.
He shared it with some friends and friendly advisers, and believes that they ‘have performed due diligence in checking the facts that are public’.
There will be a trial in May to decide the fate of the child. Kevin has been assigned a public defender by the court to represent him and has been desperately trying to find his own attorney. He has been assured that he will lose the May trial, and that the prosecutors will request termination of his parental rights as the remedy to eliminate the danger to his son.
They may or may not pursue a case against his wife. If she too is deemed unsuitable, the child will be lost into the foster care system forever and grow up as Kevin did. If they do not take that course of action with his wife, she will be offered ‘services’ and the child will be under supervision until he is emancipated. Kevin believes that they ‘may set the bar higher than what a reasonable person can meet’, and that she and he will be forced into extensive therapy and sexual abuse education classes.
He says: “I am proceeding based on the assumption that I will lose the municipal bench trial. My remedy will be appeal to the Indiana Appellate Court; there are 92 such Courts in Indiana, one for each County. It is again likely that I will lose on appeal given the knowledge and opinions of the attorneys I have consulted. It is the uniform opinion of twelve prominent Indianapolis attorneys that I will, without fail, lose the appeal.
”If that happens it will become precedent in the entire state of Indiana and affect one to two hundred men a year, denying them parental rights based on my case. This will happen very quickly. Custody cases are put on the front of the Indiana Appellate Court and Indiana Supreme Court dockets. My remedy in this event will be appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court; they are in session year-round, unlike the US Supreme Court. The Indiana Supreme Court may decide to let the precedent stand for the entire State or hear the case.
”If they decline to hear the case or uphold the Appellate court decision, my last remedy will be appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Such a case would cost between $500,000 and $1 million USD and likely attract the attention of national organizations interested in litigating it. All of the appeals will be based solely on this first bench trial in eight weeks - the evidence and testimony introduced in that proceeding. Time
is of the essence for me as I may not be granted a continuance by the Family Court judge.
”I must have good representation if there is to be any hope. I have established a trust fund for my son's legal defence in this first trial:
”Micah Brown Reunification Legal Defence Fund
c/o Fifth/Third Bank
8301 North Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46268
”Or via Papal, which as I understand is not a secure means to protect one's anonymity, to paypal referencing my e-mail address kbrown@pedfoundation.org. I would humbly ask anyone who is able for help with returning my son to me. It would be a different matter if I had committed some crime involving him; this has nothing to do with my actions. I have also met with a back-up attorney with a good reputation should the first firm decide not to take the case.
”I know several friends have already offered help; I cannot tell you how deeply appreciated that is. From the bottom of my soul. They took my beautiful baby boy from me and he will see no one he knows for the thirty days allowed CPS by state law to institute visitation. CPS would not allow him to bring his favourite teddy bear or his blanket which he insists on at bedtime (or anything else familiar from home). He is alone in a callous world right now, completely undeserving of any of this. I had rocked him to sleep every night of his life with a bedtime story save one night out of town on business I couldn't avoid. Now, nothing.
“The days are nice for visits to the park; the free day at the Indianapolis Children's Museum approaches. The States offers him none of these anchors in his life, nothing but pain, same as they did for me. I cannot express the depth of my outrage and downright hatred for the individuals involved in doing this to him. They should be deeply ashamed of themselves; they are blind to the truth.
“I do not speak of my religious beliefs to others generally but these are trying times. I am praying frequently for those involved in destroying my family. Dear Lord, forgive them their sins. They know not what they do. Please give them everything I wish for in life and more. I ask you in our community to include them in your prayers. They are children of God deceived by a fallen world and yet still beautiful in the eyes of my
father. I will pray for Rick every day of my life going forward. I would regret seeing others lose their souls because of consuming hatred for me.
”I will ask the new attorney whether sending letters to national civil libertarian groups is appropriate now or when we reach the appeal stage.
”I have spent a week thinking everything through, talking it over, soliciting information from lawyers and paralegals. I believe the inevitable course will be that I lose all of my available remedies and that it will be a difficult struggle to get it onto the US Supreme Court docket. I believe I will have to make my case nationally, in the media, and influence public opinion in a manner sufficient to force them to hear the case. I am ill-prepared to do that. I am a carpenter by trade and an average person. Twenty years of persecution for this has been too much. I believe it will be years before I am reintegrated into my son's life, if ever at all prior to his emancipation.
”I forever reject the -philia nomenclature in describing myself. I will never again utter or write that word. I will instruct my counsel to object every time that it is used in court proceedings.
”An irony of all of this is that the play I was producing, Adam's End, dealt with a decent man who was liked in his community and that community's reaction to him when they discovered his pedosexuality. My art has become my life. I will never explore that topic on stage.
Sincerely,
Kevin Brown.”
Editorial commentary
This is a very dramatic story. I know of only one other person almost as rash - Tom O’Carroll in the UK and heard of a few others who committed similar public rash actions and were hounded from their homes and countries.
First it is clear that the First Amendment has been ignored. His radio call should not have led to authorities calling and his son being seized.
His horrific treatment as a 15 year old is worth noting. Even back then, his woman guidance counsellor so badly betrayed him. His treatment at the facility is another example of sexual torture, which we have learned to be a common and popular human sexual activity – ironically used to control ‘sexual perversion’.
One of his most interesting statements was: “I forever reject the -philia nomenclature in describing myself. I will never again utter or write that word. I will instruct my counsel to object every time that it is used in court proceedings.” The expression does not exist in older dictionaries. Journalists are making dire warnings that through our moral panics we are all seeing children through the eyes of the paedophile. Others fear that we have created a new and secret mass desire to enjoy the eroticism of children, by so much attention being paid to it. What is clear is that we have created a monster.
Editor
See also Age of consent story HERE or below.
Sex abuse
Age of consent - Gerald's story.
A 21st century tragedy
'Speed assaults’ on children
Parents, your children are now truly at risk
The Australian inquiry
Death penalty for sex acts in Georgia
The atrocities of consensual sex
Jessie and Tyler - did the dog do it?
His art became his life
Reflections on Thomas O’Carroll
Salivating over paedophilia
Another front is opening up
God help human sexuality!
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