Spring Hill man sues authorities over child abuse case
St. Petersburg Times
September 12, 2009
Page 6B: Tampa Bay
By Michael Kruse, Times Staff Writer
After he got out of the Hernando County jail, after the State Attorney's Office stopped the criminal case against him, that said, he had molested his daughter and after the state Department of Children and Families dropped its custody case, too, Ron Shelton said, he was going to sue everybody.
Shelton, 62, an accountant, who lives in Spring Hill, recently filed a civil suit in federal court in Tampa. The long list of defendants includes DCF, the State Attorney's Office of the 5th Judicial Circuit, the Hernando County Sheriff's Office and the employees of those agencies, who had a hand in the 13-month criminal case against him. He's seeking $30 million.
Shelton was arrested in August 2005. He was kept in jail with no chance for bail until June 2006. The criminal case wasn't dropped until September.
Due to the ordeal and because of the agencies' shoddy investigation - according to Shelton's suit - he is now a broke and broken man.
He's still trying in Hernando courts to get back custody of his daughter. The biggest problem now, said Mark Rodriguez, his attorney, is that the girl and the mother can't be found.
Men need to learn to fight back, but not just men: anybody, who's been wrongly convicted, should sue the very authorities (judges, prosecutors, district attorneys, police, etc.), because of whose negligence/carelessness, mistakes, prejudice, mishandling of evidence, rush, building anti-men statistics, appeasing feminists, etc. his life got ruined. Nobody in government should enjoy immunity, not even the President, because immunity = being above the law = a license to be irresponsible. No one is above the law, no one! Everybody has to take responsibility for the sloppy work they did, because their oversights hurt innocent people and they have absolutely no right to harm anyone because of their own incompetence. So stand up and fight back! Put those committing the crime of wrongful sentences in jail for precisely the same amount of time, that they had convicted that innocent person for! Only then they'll learn the weight of what they did! Stop automatically painting men as criminals and as potential sex offenders! That's prejudice! Stop overemphasizing men's crimes in the media, thereby steering public opinion! Feminists, get a life and get your own deficiencies in order, before you're taking out your inferiority complexes on others! And stop convicting innocent people just to quickly close ever more cases (undue, headless rushing), to raise the statistics of men convicted and to falsely show, how crime went down by how much, while in reality it didn't! We need more men like Ron Shelton, who fight back! It's all too clear, why the "girl and the mother can't be found" all of a sudden, when it turns out that she had wrongly accused him: she wants to avoid responsibility for it! As soon as she turns up, she should be thrown in jail and serve exactly the same amount of time that Ron Shelton was convicted for.
