Posted on 06/21/2002 7:01:23 PM PDT by Capriole
Look, first of all, please forgive me. I know I haven't done this right, but I can't figure out quite how to post this, my first vanity post. So please be kind and bear with me. I'm seeking the opinions of Freepers because you are collectively the most broadly experienced, tough-minded, and knowledgeable group of people I've ever encountered.
I learned a few days ago that my ex-husband, the father of my eight-year-old son and fourteen-year-old daughter, has been arrested for sexually abusing his stepdaughter, who was 12 1/2 to 13 at the time. He is 61, formerly a distinguished, internationally prominent scientist, medical school professor, author, executive, and lecturer. He has admitted his guilt and there's no question he's going to jail, though it's not clear for how long. What I wonder is, do they put an old guy like that in some kind of protective custody, or do they just let the prisoners mess with him as much as they please? Is there much chance he's going to survive? I know that child molesters are not exactly popular in prisons and thought I had heard at one point that for that reason they were kept apart from the general prison population. He's in the People's Republic of Maryland, if that helps.
Don't want to give the impression that I'm worried about him--as far as I'm concerned, all child molesters ought to be just put up against the wall and shot, since they're irredeemably evil--but you can perhaps imagine that his life or death is a matter of interest to me and my children.
I have been in and out of prison for ten years and have seen some crazy stuff. Gramps is not going to have an easy time in there. One for being old and weak, and two for being in there for sexual assault. I was on kitchen duty a few years back and so was an ex-child molestor. When my fellow inmates found out why he was locked up, they shoved a can of peas up his anus six inches deep. Rapists and molestors, I would say, have a 99% chance of getting punked (raped). I know 6 rapists in prison, and not one of them got out without having had the same thing done to them.
A really good friend of mine from college who wound up getting sentenced to a year for selling marijuana said sort of the same thing.
He served his time in the county jail. He was made a trustee very quickly (probably b/c he had no priors and a college degree) and said it wasn't actually that bad. The trustees lived in a seperate area, and he said everyone was mainly concerned with staying out of trouble and getting out as quickly as possible.
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