I would love to know if there was any evidence, other than a 12-year-old girl's word, that was used to convict Mr. Burrowes. At least in this case, the prosecution stepped up when they learned that the girl lied and pushed for his exoneration. While I don't believe prison is the answer, there does need to be a very stiff punishment handed down. Three years in jail, based on your lie, merits something.
Prosecutors: She Told False Story To Protect Another Man
MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee man who served three years in prison for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl is a free man after a judge threw out the conviction and ordered him removed from the sex offender registry.Prosecutors said the accuser blamed the wrong man to protect another, and in a remarkable move, the district attorney's office asked a judge to throw out the conviction.
"It was a nightmare. Honestly it was," Chris Burrowes said.
Three years ago, police dragged Burrowes from his home as his 3-year-old daughter Christiana looked on.
"I never wanted her to have to go through seeing something like that especially her being so young and being her father, she loves me so much," Burrowes said.
A 12-year-old girl who lived near the basketball courts where he played told police she had sex with Burrowes at his north side home.
Prosecutors offered him a plea deal. He refused and a jury returned a guilty verdict.
Burrowes served three years in prison, and until Thursday, appeared on the sex offender registry.
"I've never been known to do anything the girl alleged me of doing, so I was shocked myself when I heard about it, and the fact that they found me guilty and tried to put me on the sex offender's list was like, 'I don't know.' It was just like, 'Whoa, like (the) sex offenders list -- that's like ruining my life, my reputation, my work, my career everything you know,'" Burrowes said.
Wednesday, a judge threw out Burrowes' conviction after the district attorney said the now-16-year-old girl had recanted, saying she had blamed Burrowes to protect a relative she was having sex with."
She was in love with him and didn't want to tell on him so he would go to jail, so she pinned it against someone else. She pinned it against me," Burrowes said.
Relatives at the girl's home said they couldn't comment, and Burrowes won't comment on the girl. He's just thankful he's been exonerated -- especially for Christiana, whom he's just getting to know again.
"It matters a lot for her to know that she got a good daddy, and I'm going to be there for her and I'm not the type of guy that they tried to play me out to be," Burrowes said.
Burrowes had no prior criminal record. He's now working and going to school to become a barber.
As for the girl, the district attorney's office said it learned the girl recanted when they interviewed her as part of another investigation. It must now determine whether to charge her with perjury.
No one from the district attorney's office was available to talk on camera.
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I have to disagree - I think prison is the correct punishment. She should receive his full sentence (not just the years he served).
amen
ESPECIALLY considering men are being imprisoned TODAY for alleged rapes that happened 20 years ago.
Just sentence the lying bitch to 20 years, sentence to commence on her 21st birthday.
She can always opt to do society a favour and commit suicide.
NOTE WELL that reading between the lines in this story, her previous false accusation was only "discovered" because police are investigating something current, that something is likely to be yet another false accusation.
AfOR
I think a discount would be in order here given she was quite young at the time of the accusation.
That said, she is older now and hasn't put any effort into getting the guy she imprisoned released.
Quite disturbing that he's only a free man though luck and chance. Still if he lived in a more feminist dominated place then he'd probably still have to go through a retrial and currently be on bail or something just ot really rub it in.
”I would love to know if there was any evidence, other than a 12-year-old girl's word, that was used to convict Mr. Burrowes.”
What other evidence could there have been. We are told that she had sex with someone else – so no DNA from him. We are told that she selected Burrowes to “pin it on”, so as to protect the relative with whom she WAS having sex – thus, it’s likely she picked him for select reasons that might make it easier successfully carry out her lie (I can’t help noticing from the linked article that Burrowes is black – wonder if that had something to do with her choice of innocent victims to pin the blame on?).
”At least in this case, the prosecution stepped up when they learned that the girl lied and pushed for his exoneration.”
[eye roll]I wonder how long it will be before we have to hear about what a brave and noble thing she has done in finally telling the truth.[/eye roll]
Actually, we might be spared that particular nonsense in this case since, as a minor, she is not named by the press (and likely never will be). The only point of declaring her act “heroic” would be to spin her lies in a positive light if her identity was known.
”While I don't believe prison is the answer, there does need to be a very stiff punishment handed down. Three years in jail, based on your lie, merits something.”
Potentially big problem in seeking to punish her – she was a minor at the time she committed the crime. A thirteen year-old is never going to have adult charges filed against them. Worst she could be given would be time until her 18th birthday in the youth offender system. Then, she gets to start all over with a “clean” adult record.
Best bet for punishment is to sue her family for everything possible. Her parents are financially liable for any damages she did as a 13 year-old. A family member is also complicit in the matter (as we now know), and never came forward to exonerate Burrowes. Her family needs to suffer enough to the point that they come to resent her and her real lover for the price the family has to pay.
Also, once she’s eighteen, Burrowes should do all he can to get her name and face out there for others to know. Social rejection is just another too small price this young woman should have to face for what she’s done.
I realize that I sound very harsh in my suggests; but, I truly believe it is time to make an example of those who send innocent men to prison when they hold it in their hands to tell the truth before it goes that far.
Like Biurny Gonzalez, this woman needs to be named, shamed, and severely punished (even if that can only happen via civil action).
Anon @ 11:14AM
I think a discount would be in order here given she was quite young at the time of the accusation.
She was 13 at the time and having sex with a relative. If she could have sex she full well knows what she is doing. Therefore she should also take responsibility for her actions. Not conveniently pin the blame on someone else to cover her tracks.
Anon @ 10:51AM
She can always opt to do society a favour and commit suicide.
Unfortunately a selfish bitch like her just won't curl up and die. She'll live on to be a pest to the rest of society and a danger to mankind.
Snark,
I've always maintained that a selfish, irresponsible bitch like her should be locked away in solitary till her bones crumble to dust because she never knows the full impact of her loose actions and words till she tastes the bitter fruit of it herself.
It must now determine whether to charge her with perjury.
How does that take more than 5 minutes?
radian - "How does that take more than 5 minutes?"
It should not - or, to be more honest about it, it DID NOT.
You see, when the authorities state: "It must now determine whether to charge her with perjury."
they are talking in "code".
If we where to carefully decipher what they are really saying, it would be something more along the lines of:
"We've decided that we don't really want to charge her for perjury nor false reporting. We really couldn't give a crap that some man went to prison; and we certainly don't want to have our previous failures highlighted for us as we dredge-up all the stuff we failed to recognize in our zeal to prosecute.
It's a great personal embarrassment to us, so we're hoping that by waiting for a few weeks while we "ponder" our next move, some major news will come along to make everyone forget about this, and then will quickly sweep the whole mess under the proverbial rug.
All it's going to take is, say, sweeping health care reform to be passed, crippling snowstorms, some jihadist trying to blow up a plane, or maybe the football playoffs - and we're home free; and the FRA and false conviction will be all but forgotten."
So, I think you can understand why they would just simply and obfuscate it down to "It must now determine whether to charge her with perjury."
LOL @ "recant."
"As for the girl, the district attorney's office said it learned the girl recanted when they interviewed her as part of another investigation."
WTF? She didn't recant, she said something that tipped them off and they pressed her -- they probably found out her relative was a pedophile / whatever and that was the purpose of "another investigation" involving her.
Bitch got caught. She was gonna let the dude rot if it weren't for some dude's clever detective work in play.
Pierce, Steve,
Have you considered contacting Bill O'Reilly about FRA and asking him to do a series on this serious epidemic? I would suggest Glenn Beck but he is so involved with exposing ACORN now, I doubt he has time.
I just think we should find a way to get this out to the world and Bill O'Reilly isn't afraid of anyone.
If I was more educated (better vocabulary etc), I would contact them but I doubt they would take me seriously.
CBGirl
This story says a lot about the simple world so many women live in - a world men should be much more aware of.
The fact this girl so easily pinned the blame on an innocent man shows how valueless she saw him - not as another person like herself, but at best an instrument to be used for the better interest of someone else she had allied herself with.
The immature female mind is all about allies and enemies - there are no in-betweens. Only allies deserve her loyalty, everyone else is worthless. Her world-view is dominated by the need to form alliances ('relationships'). Truth, Justice and Reason carry no real importance - they are abstract. Allies and Threats are concrete.
It is for this reason that no matter how well men state their case, the vast majority of women won't hear a word of it. All they will hear is 'Threat' from an 'Enemy'. They will respond accordingly.
It's no co-incidence the girl finally admitted her lie years later- and referred to the man she was protecting as someone she was in love with. It's not beyond possibility that her former lover has moved from ally to enemy status, and her admission now is solely aimed at destroying him.
this is an opportunity to nip the problem in the bud - to keep the girl from developing into a serial false accusor.
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